Tag: Plants
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Boulder’s Hoplark growing rapidly with hops-infused drinks
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Rapidly-growing Hoplark beverage company founders discovered how to deliver a hoppy, IPA-type beverage that has a whole lot of nothing. As in no calories. And no alcohol. The Boulder-based company, which started four years ago by selling its HopTea at the Boulder’s farmers market, is…
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New book spreads joy, education of world’s highest botanical gardens in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the mid-1990s, during graduate studies at Cornell University, Sarah Chase Shaw spent her summers in Vail working at a garden center. She was selling daisies and the usual annuals and perennials. “That was really the early years of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,” Chase…
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for…
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Some Palisade farmers say this year’s peach crop could be best yet
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just over one year ago, a record low temperature sent chills down the backs of the farmers throughout the Grand Valley region. The National Weather Service recorded its coldest temperature in the area since 1933…
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Palisade crops unscathed by recent cool down; growers still on edge after last year’s devastation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than one year ago, record low temperatures destroyed more than half of the crops within the Grand Valley region. National Weather Service meteorologist Megan Stackhouse said the temperature dropped to 19 degrees in Grand Junction on April 14, 2020 — the lowest since 1933.…
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Protecting plants from Colorado cold fronts
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After a record-hot beginning of the month, Tuesday’s cold front and snow are wreaking havoc on Colorado plants. According to Dan Hopper, owner of Rick’s Garden Center in Colorado Springs, the biggest mistake plant owners…