Tag: Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
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Colorado could see one of best wildflower seasons in a while, experts says
Maggie Gaddis has been roaming her usual parks and open spaces around Colorado Springs and delighting in unusual sights. “I’ve seen a lot of species that we haven’t seen in a couple of years,” said the wildflower enthusiast and scientist. The executive director of the Colorado Native Plant Society has seen scarlet globe mallows popping.…
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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…