Overview of the new Botanical Society Garden at Durango Library
People are always asking me “What exactly do you do in the way of ‘Outreach’ “? Well
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Zauschneria arizonica
What an amazing autumn! We almost always have had a dusting of snow by now, or light frost. But this fiery summer blazes
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October isn’t usually considered a great time for gardens: well, think again!
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Agave neomexicana in Dryland Mesa
I think the first agave at Denver Botanic Gardens bloomed nearly 20 years ago…it was a big deal for us then
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Hemerocallis graminea
Grassleaf daylily (Hemerocallis graminea)
There are a few days in June when you can finally declare
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David Salman of High Country Gardens
David Salman has plenty to keep him busy. There are plants to tend, businesses to run, articles and blogs to write (and if you read his blog, there’s a rescued puppy named Jarrah who’s always ready to play), and certainly an appreciative audience anywhere there are gardeners in the west. We are so fortunate to have him join us in Denver for “Inspired by Mountains and Plains: Redefining the Well-Adapted Regional Garden” Friday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m.
Its a story familiar to anyone whose left lush gardens behind to move into the west: rocky mountain gardening is profoundly different. While many mail order nurseries can send you a plant across the country, their experiences and catalogue descriptions aren’t usually calibrated for a mile high and western dry. David Salman started High Country Gardens to be the mail order division of Santa Fe Greenhouses, his retail nursery company in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He tapped in to a desire for plants appropriate to western climates. And it seems he’s quite good at it.
I can tell gardening season is here, not just by the brilliant sunshine, the gardeners eager to get started, the students jumping into classes that they’ll use next week, the plant sale and the shoppers, or the colleague rashly vowing to start his peppers outdoors this weekend in spite of frost warnings at his altitude. Rocky Mountain Gardening has some element of risk and unpredictability after all (last nights low in Denver was close enough to freezing to inspire a protective measures for all the plant sale plants). No, its the sequence of plants blooming, and the patterns of temperatures, and the reactions people make that confirms it all to me. Spring sprang already, and now’s the time to get into gardens, landscapes and yards.
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Its when it gets cold that you appreciate warmth. Thick socks, long underwear, hats with ear flaps and home-knit scarfs become some of my favorite things. Standing over the heat vent while the furnace is running is not far behind.
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