Tag: flowers
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Colorado Springs Garden Tour celebrates its 100th featured garden
For one weekend, the lawns, flower beds and hidden backyard gems that are typically reserved for a household’s usual members become a horticultural sight for locals to explore. For years, winding garden paths and pollinator-friendly landscapes have been carefully curated in homeowners’ outdoor spaces across the city. Now, with their gardens in full bloom, homes…
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Phelan Gardens continues to blossom as a Springs business
4955 Austin Bluffs Parkwayphelangardens.com From a small greenhouse in Knob Hill neighborhood sprouted a gardening business that’s been in operation for more than 40 years. Phelan Gardens, a locally owned plant and gardening center, has been supplying Colorado Springs customers with an array of greens since 1981. The center is open year-round and offers everything…
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Last-minute guide to Valentine’s Day in Colorado Springs
With Valentine’s Day finally here, your significant other may be asking you about special plans. If the holiday snuck up on you this year, don’t worry. We’ve pulled together this last-minute guide for those who want to celebrate the holiday of love. Where to buy sweets, flowers Chocolates are synonymous with Valentine’s Day in the…
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Love (and 460 million flowers) are in the air for Valentine’s Day, but not without a Miami layover
Valentine’s Day may not be known as a busy time for air travel, but the past three weeks have been frantic for those involved in the fresh cut flower industry in Miami
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Year-round gardening: Extending the life of cut flowers
Legend has it that the origins of St. Valentine’s Day lie in the ancient Roman fertility festival Lupercalia. During the festival, young women would place their names in a large urn. The young men would draw a name from the urn and then be romantically linked with that young woman for the following year. Rituals…
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New book spreads joy, education of world’s highest botanical gardens in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the mid-1990s, during graduate studies at Cornell University, Sarah Chase Shaw spent her summers in Vail working at a garden center. She was selling daisies and the usual annuals and perennials. “That was really the early years of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,” Chase…
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New book spreads joy, education of world’s highest botanical gardens in Colorado
In the mid-1990s, during graduate studies at Cornell University, Sarah Chase Shaw spent her summers in Vail working at a garden center. She was selling daisies and the usual annuals and perennials. “That was really the early years of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,” Chase Shaw recalls. “People would come in regularly and would say…
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for…
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for…
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for their continued survival. Some longer-lived perennials also reseed readily. Dealing…