I enjoyed your coverage of these gardens, and your perspective as a Colorado gardener! Wow what a great blog, i really enjoyed reading this, good luck in your work. Flower shop denver colorado. Garden Bloggers take lots of pictures.
Each year they gather to visit gardens. I went in and this year, when the conference was in greater Denver, June , My summer has been so busy I haven't written about it. Well, that's one excuse. But also, I was processing what I saw. And yet it took me to gardens I had not seen. I think--I hope--that that applies to a lot of people; there are local resources that you don't know about. There was a time when paging through the phone book you could see what was close by.
Today that information is scattered between print publications and the internet and it can be difficult to find services you do not know exist. I can't offer an easy solution to keeping current on what's in your area other than: pay attention.
They are commited to "Restoring Nature Where We Live, Work and Play," incorporating wildlife and native plants into urban and suburban habitats. Given our human-dominated world, that's a critical goal if wild creatures are going to survive. HPEC provided information on growing natives and making wildlife habitat compatible with suburbia.
My version of wildlife habitat in a suburban yard is much sloppier than HPEC's, but theirs is a necessary step from manicured spaces to places wildlife can use. I enjoyed their native plant nursery they sell an array of appealing plants and I bought three despite myself , the community gardens, and the informational material. Garden of natives for sale. Below, Colorado's state flower, Colorado blue columbine, Aquilegia coerulea buttercup family, Ranunculaceae.
