Paeonia peregrina
Paeonia peregrina
Species peonies to be precise. Who does not admire the sumptuous exuberance, the voluptuous colors and textures that suggest the same sorts of things marketed by Victoria’s Secret. And I don’t mean lingerie.
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OPEN FOR EVERYBODY -
both for the DEDICATED ILLUSTRATOR and for the DEVOTED AMATEUR
South of Grand Junction, west of Aspen, north of Telluride and east of Moab where West Creek and the Dolores River meet is Palisade and Gateway Canyons Resort. This treasure is only a few miles from Utah border, surrounded by red sandstones and over 300 million year-old Triassic layers, and extremely diverse flora with many different ecosystems.
Denver Botanic Gardens’ Botanical Art and Illustration program is pleased to offer selected classes at Gateway Canyons Resort, Gateway, CO during 2010.
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Tree Peony
This week, it’s all about peonies, iris, and poppies (oh, my!).
I’m eating lunch right now. (That’s part of the reason there is no picture: you don’t need to see me chewing.) And this sandwich is my payoff for being attentive to my gardening. It might seem to be just a leftover from dinner last night, but I know it includes the first harvest of homegrown spinach for the year. Its fun to grow plants for their beauty, or the composition of the garden overall, but there’s a special satisfaction that comes with the first harvest of something edible.
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Iris 'Starwoman'
Iris 'Batik'
Tall bearded iris are always grand. This year
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Kerria
This time of year—well always, really—I have my eye out for unique and interesting items that I might want to add to my own garden—there is always room for one more! Here are a few I found this week:
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Denver Botanic Gardens and Kaiser Permanente have created a first-of-its-kind community supporting agriculture (CSA) program. The community farm will provide fresh local produce to Colorado families.
Made possible through a three-year, $500,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente, the CSA will operate as a community farm at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield—located at C-470 and Wadsworth Blvd. in Littleton. Shares of the CSA are sold to members of the public who then receive portions of the garden’s fresh produce during the harvest season, from June through October.
This new venture marks an important milestone: The Gardens is the first botanical garden in the country to operate a CSA program of this scale.
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