Tag: Flowers
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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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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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Local garden centers gear up for Mother’s Day despite global flower shortage
A global flower shortage sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lot of sleepless nights for Bonnie Brae Flowers Inc. owner Jim Gobert. Whether it was worrying about whether a shipment would come, bring the correct amount of product or right colors, it’s been difficult since March 2020. But despite the shortages of…
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At Home: New book helps gardeners add color
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Of course, you should to this,” I said. I was on the phone with my college roommate, who’d called to ask whether she was crazy to consider writing a book about adding color to your garden. A publisher had expressed interest. A garden designer who…
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Year-Round Gardening: A guide to shrub-pruning techniques
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Pruning deciduous shrubs is essential to keep them looking their best. Pruning is done to maintain or reduce plant size, remove undesirable growth, remove dead, diseased or broken branches, stimulate flowering, and rejuvenate and restore old plants and shape. The best time to prune depends…