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Stop looking for love in all the wrong places! Visit the Shop at the Gardens to find that special gift for your Valentine. For Your Crush Let the cards express your feelings. Choose from Denver-based card company Idea Chic. These cards offer smooth designs with a pastel candy color palette to give to your sweetheart. The Shop also features Pagosa Springs watercolor artist June Jurcak whose artistry captures vibrant, passionate colors from a Colorado-inspired landscape – elegance in an envelope. Idea Chic $6 -$5 June Jurcak $5.50

For Date Night Stay in for date night and draw a fizzy bath soak made from dead sea salts by Finchberry. Products are preservative free, vegan and handmade. Delight in scents like Darling, a tender fragrance of cherry blossoms, white lily, and violet petals; or bathe in Renegade Honey, a warm honey scent with flecks of gold swirled in a bouquet of amber and almonds.

Check out our selection from Mixture, which specializes in small batch, handmade and environmentally friendly bath essentials. Scents like Lauren’s Lavender Garden or Salt and Sage are luxuriously relaxing and beautifully bottled like an aged wine. Light some candles to set the ambiance with Mixture’s 2 oz candles in scents like Blend de Noir – a complex mix of soft power, apple blossom, Anjou pear and lemon zest. Or go bold with Mixture’s black votive candle with notes of deep, woody amber kissed with lemon and lavender.

Mixture also offers shave kits and beard groom kits to look and feel your handsomest when stepping out. Finchberry Fizzy Bath Soak $20 Mixture Bubble Bath $35 2 oz. votive $10.95 Mixture Shave Essentials $36 Beard Essentials $40

Hello, Lover! Jewelry lover, that is! Explore our collection of jewelry with artists such as Jenny Walker, Left Hand Studios and Anabel Aram.

Anabel Aram’s collection of elegant gold-plated 18k brass jewelry has timeless beauty. Anabel Aram $65 - $345

Give a lasting reminder of the beautiful flowers at the Gardens. Walker uses vitreous enamel to create unique color variations found in nature. Jenny Walker $80 - $240

Longmont-based Left Hand Studios offers a variety of styles to fit your fancy, from cats in a widow to peacocks and the house plant parent. Left Hand Studio earrings $25

Sweet Romance For your sweetheart with a sweet tooth. Delicious macarons look as pretty as a picture to present to your Valentine, with flavors like Lavender Lemonade, Red Velvet and Café Latte. And don’t forget, honey for your honey. The Shop carries Bee Squared and Highland Honey, both based in Colorado. With creamed honey to flavored honey, you’ll be sure to find a honey to top off tea for two. Finally, delight in Carbondale-based Pollinator Chocolate, whose bars come in delectable lavender or smooth dark cherry. Denver Macaron $9 (3 pack) - $18 (6 pack) Bee Squared $25 Honey Sticks Pack of 10 $5 Pollinator Chocolate $14

Gift Cards The Shop at the Gardens has gift cards for your Valentine. Bring them to the Gardens for a romantic date where they can select what they love from the Shop, and then stroll the gardens, galleries and Orchid Showcase .

Help support our core value of sustainability - bring your own tote or let us gift wrap your present with the purchase of a reusable bag.

Come celebrate Valentines Day with us!

This gift guide was contributed by Melissa Silver , gift shop representative. Photos by Evan Wang , gift shop representative.

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Valentine's Day Gift Guide

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