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The Weekly Bloom: Week of August 28th

Zinnia 'Profusion'

I’ve always been a gardener who has looked down my nose a bit at annuals—those flowers that need replanting every single year. Aren’t they a bit pedestrian, invented for those folks who don’t have the good sense to buy a perennial and watch it come back year after year?

Except that they are gorgeous.
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Featured Garden of the Week: All-America Selections (AAS) Garden

 

All-America Selections Garden at Denver Botanic Gardens, photo 1

All-America Selections Garden at Denver Botanic Gardens, photo 2

Though seasonal displays can be seen throughout the Gardens, the only significant display of annuals at Denver Botanic Gardens is found in the AAS Garden. Featuring premier annuals from the All-America Selections program, this garden is in spectacular form at this time and was artistically designed by Senior Horticulturist Maria Bumgarner. Through trials throughout the country, the AAS program each year introduces superior varieties proven to be excellent garden performers throughout North America. The AAS Garden features latest and past years’ plant introductions, which includes bedding plants and vegetables.
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