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Plant Select® is a unique program that brings plants to the consumer market that are good for the Colorado Front Range steppe environment. Plants from the Plant Select program are integrated into many

You may have heard of the Plant Select® program—a collaboration between Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado State University and green industry partners. Its mission is simple: to introduce plants that

Gardening on the Front Range comes with unique challenges: low precipitation and humidity, high solar radiation, relatively short growing season, alkaline clay soils, and extreme and unpredictable

As you enter Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms you will first walk into the Lavender Garden. In early May, tufts of thick green fans will greet you along the fence borders. There are only a few

I didn't expect to have a plant named after me at this point in my life. Not that I didn’t hope that it would happen, eventually. I’ve had maybe just one fantasy of running from fans like I’m in a

Xeriscape sometimes summons images of oceans of gravel and harsh, stickly, pointy plants that stab, slash and terrorize homeowner associations. A primrose? Really? Well, there are even primroses that