Category: Western Garden
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Joy Andrews’ front yard garden center isn’t technically open for retail business today. Wednesdays are reserved for wholesale accounts and catching up on maintenance. But like the butterflies and bumblebees, people can’t resist stopping by to take in the riot of blooms. And Joy can’t resist breaking from her work and schedule to let them.…
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Growing West: Water, Land, and What Comes Next for Pedaling Petals Outside her front door and facing the foothills of the Rockies, Heather Hirschi adjusts drip irrigation lines while Tim Diana, her growing partner, broadforks soil in preparation for planting dahlia tubers. The two have been growing flowers together for two years under the Pedaling…
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On Sunday, April 19, Colorado State University students were invited to spend a free afternoon at The Gardens on Spring Creek — a 12-acre botanic garden tucked along the Spring Creek Trail, in Fort Collins, Colorado. Although it is less than a mile from campus, it was for many of the students in attendance their…