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Cool-Season Vegetable Starts expected 3/26/26

Cold-Season Vegetable Starts – March

We’re very excited this week to debut spring vegetable starts that MASA has grown for us!  These bioregionally-adapted varieties are so robust and full of vitality, and so irresistible!  They are also selected for resilience in our wide weather swings. If you can water your garden, these plants will give you a bountiful head-start on home-grown, delicious, nutritious, greens! We’ll be bringing in more each week.

Arugula Astro
Broccoli Nutribud
Broccoli Umpqua
Cabbage, red Amarant
Cabbage, green Tendersweet
Cabbage, green Tiara
Chard Bali Red
Chard Bright Lights
Chard Fordhook
Collards, Flash
Kale, curly purple Redbor
Kale, lacinato Black Magic
Kale, curly DarkiborCo
Lettuce, butter Adriana
Lettuce, Romaine Forellenschluss
Lettuce, dwf Rom. Spretnak
Lettuce, red leaf Hyper Red Rumpled
Lettuce, green leaf Winter Density

Tomatoes Worth Waiting for!

Tomatoes: We’ve always started bringing out our outstanding selection of tomato varieties in the second week of April, but a little glitch with our new grower has caused a slight delay…we expect them to arrive starting the week of April 21st. So please hang in there with us – our exceptional, locally adapted varieties are truly worth waiting for!

Anasazi

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It’s Vegetable Planting Time!

Planting time is upon us! We still have great seed potatoes but they’re selling fast! The same goes for asparagus crowns and onion plant bundles. And oh my, do we have spring vegetable starts! Robust lettuce (7 varieties!), Pak Choi, Baby Pak Choi, Tatsoi, both Nutribud and Umpqua broccoli, 3 varieties of cabbage, 3 of Swiss Chard, 5 kale varieties, plus escarole, collard greens, arugula, cilantro and bulbing fennel, with radicchio and others coming later this week! We’ve also restocked our seed selections!

 

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Serviceberry

Indigenous scientist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer tells us that the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of interconnectedness and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth of berries to meet the needs of its natural community, and this ensures its own survival.

This is the ethic of reciprocity that that lies at the heart of the gift economy, in which wealth and security come from the quality of our relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.

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Native and Waterwise Shrubs in Full Bloom -Ready to Plant

Ribes aureum, Golden Currant

You have likely been seeing delightfully spectacular shows of blooms around the Front Range these past couple of weeks. There are currently many gorgeous spring blooming shrubs to choose from at Harlequin’s -your trusted source for native and waterwise shrubs. In stock and ready to plant are:

Amelanchier alnifolia, Saskatoon serviceberry

Amelanchier regent, ‘Regent’ serviceberry

Artemesia ludoviciana, White sagebrush

 

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Water-wise Shrubs Available Now

Our healthy, overwintered and water-wise shrubs are waking up! Choose from hardy Manzanita, Banana Yucca, Creeping Mahonia and Western Sagebrush.

  • Arcostaphylos x coloradensis, Mock Bearberry Manzanita (pictured here) is an outstanding selection of a native broadleaf evergreen shrub. Needs good drainage, and prefers afternoon shade. 10-18″ high x 26-60″ wide. Deer resistant, provides winter interest, supports pollinators. Up to 8125′. From Plant Select.
  • Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Chieftain’ adda a beautiful structural element to landscapes and introduce a more natural look to our man-made urban environments. Plant them around large pine trees, over retaining walls and as foundation plantings around homes and businesses. The green, rounded leaves last all year, including through the winter! These shrubs grow to a mature height of around two feet tall.

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Perfect Houseplants for Valentine’s Day!

Who doesn’t love houseplants?  Here a few that make perfect gifts.

Ceropegia woodii ‘Variegata’ (Variegated String of Hearts). The heart shaped leaves boast greens, creams, and blushy pinks. While this plant may look delicate, it’s hardy, needing bright indirect light, and little water. Let it dry out completely between waterings. This variegated version of the  “String of Hearts” vine displays beautifully cascading in a hanging basket. Its petite heart-shaped leaves boast greens, creams, and blush pinks, along with small mauve pipe-shaped flowers.  While this wonderful Valentine’s day gift looks delicate, the care is quite easy. It requires bright indirect light and because String of Hearts is a succulent, let it dry out completely between waterings, generally about 2-3 weeks during the growing season and every 4 weeks during the dormant season. Make sure the pot has plenty of drainage so the roots don’t rot.

Stromanthe ‘Triostar’ (Triostar Stromanthe).  This striking tropical plant’s long leaves are green and cream, with magenta undersides. The leaves change position throughout the day. They prefer to have more consistent water, generally water thoroughly when the top inch or two of soil is dry. An occasional misting benefits this plant as it helps mimics its natural jungle-like habitat.

Ficus ‘Ruby’ (Ruby Rubber Tree).  This pink-tinged variety of the standard Rubber Tree adds an interesting splash of color to any space. They typically grow with multiple stems each with multi-colored leathery leaves, with the newest growth showing the most intense red/pink coloring. The Ruby Rubber Tree prefers bright indirect light with moderate moisture. Generally, they prefer a thorough watering when the top 2 inches of soil is dry.

Dahlias for Color and Beauty!

Hapet Daydream Dahlia

Colorado gardens provide just the right amount of heat and sun that our locally-sourced dahlias need for spectacular summer shows. Our selection of tubers is especially strong this year!

Choose from: Bracken Palomino, Brookside Snowball, Hapet Daydream (pictured above), Kara Sangria, Mondriaan, MM Buttercream, Mikayla Miranda, PG Woodhouse, Robann Creamsicle, Tanita, Orange Symphony.

Descriptions:

Bracken Palamino -Large 6-8″ Orange Sherbet blooms. 5′ tall.
Brookside Snowball – 4″ pure White blooms, 4′ tall.
Hapet Daydream – 3-4″ wide ball form, blend of Pink, Yellow and White.
Kara Sangria – Brilliant combination of Salmon, Pink and vibrant Yellow in a cactus form, 4′ tall.

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Houseplants for Winter Health!

Snake Plant, Sansevieria spp.

When the world outside turns dormant, houseplants become essential indoor companions  Bringing greenery into your home during the winter offers several science-backed benefits:

  • Natural Humidifiers: Central heating systems can drop indoor humidity to as low as 10%. Plants like ferns release moisture through transpiration, which helps combat dry skin, sore throats, and respiratory irritation.
  • Mental Health Support: The presence of greenery is a powerful antidote to “winter blues”.  Tending to plants serves as a mindful ritual that reduces cortisol levels.
  • Improved Air Quality: Since windows stay shut in the winter, indoor air pollutants can accumulate. Hardier winter-friendly plants like Snake Plant (pictured here) and ZZ Plant help filter out common toxins while replenishing oxygen levels.
  • Enhanced Focus: Studies suggest that being around indoor plants can boost concentration and memory retention by up to 20%!

This week we have a wonderful selection. Here are a few of our favorites:

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Rising Grocery Costs Got you Down? Plant These Veggies for Storage, and Savings

Grocery prices are projected to rise even more this summer. You can save, by planting your own veggies for storage. These delicious, hardy varieties are some of the longest-storing, and can be  enjoyed for most of the winter, and even into spring.

Potatoes:  While all the potatoes we offer (usually available in March) are delicious and hardy, these are the best ‘keepers’: HARVEST MOON -85-100 days. Round tuber with purple skin and deep yellow flesh. Firm texture after cooking, with a nutty taste. Good for roasting, baking, soups, and chips;  NICOLA – 85 – 105 days. Early. Thin skinned, yellow inside and out. Good for winter storage; SANGRE – 80-90 days. Midseason. Beautiful red skinned variety with shallow eyes and medium-sized oblong tubers. Originally released by Colorado State University in 1982, Sangre ranks high in taste tests with creamy white flesh that is especially delicious boiled or baked.

 

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Curing Winter Squash for Storage

butternut squash

Butternut Squash

We’ve tried a number of ways to store squash, and we’ve been informed over the years by our friends at Seed Savers. If you’ve been canning, chopping and freezing, and cooking things down into sauce this harvest season, you’ll love the ease of storing winter squash whole.

First, be sure the squash are ripe. Each variety differs regarding color and sheen as indicators of ripeness, but as a rule we harvest when the thick stem connecting the fruit to the vine has dried. Cut the stem, leaving at least 1″ and up to 3″ of the stem attached. Be sure to harvest before the first hard frost – if you can’t harvest until after a frost, don’t try to cure and store the squash. Rather, either dice and freeze for later, or bake or make soup and freeze that for later.

Curing is a process that sets up the squash for several months’ of storage by allowing the skin, or shell, to harden.  After harvest, elevate the squash off the ground, keeping room between fruits for air to circulate, and leave in a bright, sunny space that isn’t warm or hot for approximately two weeks. You’ll know when they are cured when they pass the ‘fingernail test’ – press your fingernail gently into the shell, and if the skin bruises or breaks, it’s not cured yet! A fully cured squash won’t even dent.

Storage instructions do sound a bit like the porridge in the Goldilocks story – the place you store the squash can’t be too hot or too cold. It needs to be just right! That means not colder than 50 degrees and not warmer than about 65 degrees.  The warmer the temperature, the sooner you’ll need to use the squash. Find a cool spot in a closet, the back of a cupboard, a basement, or a garage (if it is temperature controlled). Wrap each squash in paper or straw and place in a box or on a shelf, leaving room for airflow. The paper or straw protects the squash and absorbs any moisture. If the squash does freeze, keep it frozen until you’re ready to use it. Inspect once a week, and use any damaged squash first. Here’s advice from Seed Savers:

  1. “Any damaged squash should be used as soon as possible. 
  2. Delicatas, Acorns, and Buttercups should be used within a month or two.
  3. Hubbards, Pie squash, and pumpkins can last up to four months.
  4. Butternuts last the longest in storage and can take you right into spring.”

And if you don’t have the appropriate space, you can always preserve your squash by dicing and freezing the flesh.

Seed Saving – Seeds last up to a year in your squash – so whenever you use your squash you can scrape out the seeds, rinse and dry, and plant in the spring. Just be aware that squash is a notorious cross-pollinator, and if you grew several kinds you will not necessarily grow a fruit exactly like the one you harvested!

And yes, pumpkins ARE winter squashes. Save them using these same instructions.

Chocolate Flower and other Long Bloomers

Berlandiera lyrata is an amazing blooming champion. Native to south-eastern Colorado as well as the SW region, Berlandiera really does emit a strong aroma of chocolate or carob all morning.   

I love the succession of ephemeral flowers in my garden: the spring-blooming bulbs that begin the wake-up call to the garden and pollinators, the delicate pasque flowers (Pulsatilla, primroses (Primula), Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium), bluebells (Mertensia), voluptuous peonies and many more.

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2026 Bulbs for Fall 2025 Planting

We’re excited that bulbs have arrived! We’re unpacking boxes and putting these out for you as soon as as they come in – thanks in advance for your patience.

GENUS SPECIES/VARIETY
ALLIUM BUBBLE BLEND – in store now!
ALLIUM aflatunense PURPLE SENSATION
ALLIUM caeruleum (azureum)
ALLIUM amplectens GRACEFUL BEAUTY
ALLIUM MOUNTAIN BELLS MIXTURE
ALLIUM (Nectaroscordum) siculum
ALLIUM rosenbachianum – in store now
ANEMONE blanda BLUE SHADES WINDFLOWER – in store now!
BLEND Allium, Tritelia BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR
COLCHICUM DOUBLE WATERLILY (autumn flowering)
CORYDALIS solida BETH EVANS (pink)
CROCUS sieberi FIREFLY
CROCUS fuscotinctus – in store now!
CROCUS sativa SAFFRON CROCUS (autumn flowering)
CROCUS speciosus AUTUMN CROCUS (autumn flowering)
CROCUS tommasinianus RUBY GIANT – in store now!
CROCUS specie MIXED – in store now!
CROCUS vernus AQUA – in store now!
CROCUS vernus GOLDEN YELLOW
CROCUS vernus MIXED – in store now!
CHIONODOXA forbesii GLORY of the SNOW – in store now!
FRITILLARIA IMPERIALIS RUBRA MAXIMA – in store now!
FRITILLARIA PERSICA
GALANTHUS nivalis SNOWDROPS
HYACINTH DELFT BLUE
HYACINTH PETER STUYVESANT
HYACINTH DELFT BLUE
IRIS, DWARF ALIDA – in store now!
IRIS, DWARF HARMONY – in store now!
IRIS, DWARF PURPLE HILL – in store now!
IXIOLIRION tataricum pallasii MOUNTAIN LILY
MUSCARI azureum AZURE GRAPE HYACINTH
NARCISSUS blend MINIATURE MIX
NARCISSUS blend MOTHER & DAUGHTER
NARCISSUS blend NATURALIZING MIX
NARCISSUS DUTCH MASTER trumpet daffodil – in store now!
NARCISSUS DOUBLE POET’S (Albo Pleno Odorata)
NARCISSUS ALTRUIST small-cup
NARCISSUS BARRET BROWNING small-cup
NARCISSUS JAMESTOWN small-cup
NARCISSUS PHEASANT’s EYE
NARCISSUS DELIBES large-cup
NARCISSUS FERRIS WHEEL large-cup
NARCISSUS JETFIRE miniature
NARCISSUS GOLDEN ECHO miniature
NARCISSUS YAZZ jonquilla
NARCISSUS TETE-A-TETE miniature
NARCISSUS CORNISH KING trumpet
NARCISSUS MOUNT HOOD trumpet
NARCISSUS, PAPERWHITE ZIVA
SCILLA sibirica SIBERIAN SQUILL
TULIP blend BRILLIANT BLUES – in store now!
TULIP blend TRIUMPH MIX
TULIP ANGELIQUE double late
TULIP DANCELINE double late – in store now!
TULIP PEPTALK double late – in store!
TULIP BLUSHING APPLEDOORN Darwin Hybrid – in store now!
TULIP DAYDREAM Darwin Hybrid – in store now!
TULIP LIGHT & DREAMY Darwin Hybrid – in store now!
TULIP RED IMPRESSION Darwin Hybrid – in store now!
TULIP AVIGNON Parrot tulip
TULIP ORANGE EMPEROR fosteriana – in store now!
TULIP FLAMING EMPEROR fosteriana
TULIP BALLERINA lily-flowering – in store now!
TULIP KARATE Triumph – in store now!
TULIP LASTING LOVE Triumph
TULIP PAUL SCHERER Triumph
TULIP SHOCKING Triumph
TULIP BLUEBERRY RIPPLE Rembrandt – in store now!
TULIP HAPPY FEET Rembrandt – in store now!
TULIP viridiflora ARTIST – in store now!
TULIP, specie humilis LITTLE BEAUTY
TULIP, specie humilis PERSIAN PEARL
TULIP, specie greigii RED RIDING HOOD – in store now!
TULIP, specie praestans TUBERGEN’S VARIETY

Plant Feature: Prairie Goldenrod

Solidago ptarmicoides

Looking for a really different native Goldenrod? Solidago ptarmicoides (aka Oligoneuron album) is distinctive within the Solidago genus in having white to cream-colored daisy-like flowers, in heads arranged in a flat-topped cluster rather than in an elongated raceme. Known as Prairie Goldenrod or White Upland Aster, one plant can sometimes produce as many as 50 small heads, blooming from August to October. It is an herbaceous perennial that grows in clumps 12 to  24” high and wide, native to dry, sandy, usually calcareous soils, cracks in rocks, limestone pavements, rocky outcrops, grassy slopes and prairies from Quebec to Saskatchewan south to Arkansas, and west to Colorado. It’s cold-hardy to USDA zone 3.
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2025 Roses in 4″ Pots

Rosa nutkana

Alba suaveolens

Autumn Damask

Banshee

Baronne Prevost

JoAn’s Pink Perpetual

Marchesa Bocchella

Sidonie

Zephirine Drouhin

AUSlot – Sophy’s Rose

AUSmove – Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Autumn Sunblaze

Autumn Sunset

Awakening

Bill Reid

Bridal Sunblaze

Brilliant Veranda

Burgundy Iceberg

Carefree Beauty

Carefree Spirit

Carefree Delight

Celestial Night

Champlain

Cinco de Mayo

Cream Veranda

Denver’s Dream

Diamond Eyes

Dortmond

Earth Angel

Fairmount Proserpine

Firecracker Kolorscape

Fred Loads

Fun in the Sun

Gail’s Glauca Seedling

Gourmet Popcorn

Home Run

Iceberg

Jacqueline du Pre

Jasmina

Jeanne Lajoie

Julia Child

Lady in Red

Laguna

Lemon Fizz Kolorscape

Life’s Little Pleasures

Mandarin Sunblaze

Margaret Merril

Millie Walters

Morden Belle

Morden Blush

Morden Fireglow

Parkdirektor Riggers

Peach Sunblaze

Playboy

Plum Perfect

Red Meidland

Red Ribbons

Red Sunblaze

Rise n Shine

Robusta

Roxanne Veranda

Sally Holmes

Sister Soul Sunbelt

Sunbeam Veranda

Sweet Chariot

Trumpeter

Twilight Zone

Westerland

William Baffin

 

 

Natives We Often Have for Sale

Native Plants We Often Have for Sale     2024 – 2025

These are native plants that we often have for sale. Availability does change every year, but we grow and buy a wide variety of natives because they are so successful in our gardens.

KEY: t = tree, s = shrub, v = vine, gr = grass, gc = ground cover, p = perennial,

b = biennial, a = annual

 

Acer glabrum (Rocky Mt. Maple) (t)

Acer grandidentatum (Bigtooth Maple) (t)

Achillea lanulosa (Native White Yarrow) (p)

Agastache aurantiaca Coronado

Agastache cana (Hummingbird Mint) (p)

Agastache rupestris (Sunset Hyssop)

Agastache urticifolia

Agave parryi (Hardy Century Plant) (s)

Agave parryi ssp neomexicana (s)

Agave sp. Big Blue

Agave utahensis x parryi v couesii

Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion) (p)

Amelanchier alnifolia (Saskatoon Serviceberry) (s/t)

Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Regent’ (Regent Serviceberry) (s)

Amorpha canescens (Leadplant) (s)

Amorpha fruticosa (False Indigo) (s)

Amorpha nana (Dwarf Leadplant) (s)

Amsonia jonesii (Jones’ Bluestar) (p)

Andropogon g. ‘Pawnee’ (Pawnee Big Blustem) (g)

Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem) (g)

Anemone (Pulsatilla) patens (Pasque Flower) (p)

Anemone multifida v. globosa (p)

Antennaria dioica (Pussytoes) (gc)

Antennaria dioica ‘Rubra’ (Red Pussytoes) (gc)

Antennaria parvifolia (Pussytoes) (gc)

Antennaria parvifolia ‘McClintock’ (gc)

Antennaria rosea (Pink Pussytoes) (gc)

Antennaria rubra (gc) (Pink Pussytoes) (gc)

Aquilegia barnebyi (p)

Aquilegia canadensis (p)

Aquilegia chrysantha (Southwest Yellow Columbine) (p)

Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Denver Gold’ (p)

Aquilegia coerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine) (p)

Aquilegia desertorum (Arizona Columbine) (p)

Aquilegia elegantula (Rocky Mt. Red Columbine) (p)

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Bearberry, Kinnikinnick) (gc)

Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Chieftain’ (gc/s)

Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Mock Bearberry’ (gc)

Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Panchito’ (s)Argemone hispida (Rough Prickly Poppy) (p)

Argemone polyanthemos (Prickly Poppy) (p)

Artemisia cana (Silver Sage) (s)

Artemisia filifolia (Sand Sage) (s)

Artemisia frigida (Fringed Sage) (gc)

Artemisia ludoviciana (Prairie Sage) (p,gc)

Artemisia tridentata ssp nova (Black Sage) (s)

Artemisia tridentata (Western Big Sage) (s)

Asclepias arenaria (Western Sand Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias asperula (Antelope Horn Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias hirtella (Tall Green Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias speciosa (Showy Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed) (p)

Asclepias viridis (Green Antelope Horn)

Aster coloradoensis (see Xanthisma coloradoense) (Colorado Aster) (p)

Aster ericoides (See Symphyotrichum ericoides) (Wreath Aster) (p)

Aster laevis (see Symphyotrichum leave) (Smooth Aster) (p)

Aster oblongifolius (see Symphyotrichum oblongifolium) (Aromatic Aster) (p)

Aster oblongifolius ‘October Skies’ (see Sympyotrichum ob. ‘October Skies’ (p)

Aster oblongifolius ‘Raydon’s Favorite’ (see Symphyotrichum oblongifolium ‘Raydon’s Favorite’ (p)

Aster porteri (Symphyotrichum porteri) (Porter’s Aster) (p)

Atriplex canescens (Four-wing Saltbush) (s)

Atriplex confertifolia (Shadscale) (s)

Baileya multiradiata (Desert Marigold) (a)

Balsamorrhiza sagittate (Arrowleaf Balsamroot) (p)

Baptisia australis (False Indigo) (p)

Baptisia australis v minor (Dwf. False Indigo) (p)

Baptisia lactea (White False Indigo) (p)

Berlandiera lyrata (Chocolate Flower) (p)

Blepharoneuron tricholepis (Pine Dropseed) (gr)

Bouteloua curtipendula (Side Oats Grama) (gr)

Bouteloua curtipendula ‘Trailway’ (gr)

Bouteloua gracilis (Blue Grama) (gr)

Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’ (gr)

Callirhoe involucrata (Poppy Mallow, Wine Cups) (p,gc)

Calylophus hartw. lavandulifolius (see Oenothera lavandulifolia) (Lavender-leaf Sundrops) (p)

Calylophus (see Oenothera) hartwegii v fendleri (Fendler’s Sundrops) (p)

Calylophus serrulatus (Dwarf Sundrops) (p)

Calylophus serrulatus “Prairie Lode” (Dwarf Sundrops) (p)

Campanula rotundifolia (Mountain Harebell) (p)

Castilleja integra (Indian Paintbrush) (p)

Ceanothus ovatus (Prairie Redroot) (s)

Celtis occidentalis (Western Hackberry) (t)

Celtis reticulata (Netleaf Hackberry) (t)

Ceratoides (see Krascheninnikovia, Erotia) lanata (Winterfat) (s)

Cercocarpus intricatus (Little-leaf Mt. Mahogany) (s)

Cercocarpus ledifolius (Curl-leaf Mt. Mahogany) (s/t)

Cercocarpus montanus (True Leaf Mt. Mahogany) (s)

Chamaebateria millefolium (Fernbush) (s)

Chilopsis linearis (Desert Willow) (t)

Cholla Cactus, hardy species (See Cylindropuntia) (s)

Ericameria (Chrysothamnus) nauseosus albicaulis (Tall Blue Rabbitbrush) (s)

Ericameria (Chrysothamnus) nauseosus nauseosus (Dwf. Blue Rabbitbrush) (s)

Ericameria (Chrysothamnus) viscidiflorus (Tall Green Rabbitbrush) (s)

Clematis hirsutissima (Sugar Bowls) (p)

Clematis ligusticifolia (Western Virgins Bower) (v)

Clematis scottii (Scott’s Sugarbowls) (p)

Cornus sericea (Red-twig Dogwood) (s)

Coryphantha missouriensis (Nipple Cactus)

Coryphantha vivipara (Ball Cactus)

Crataegus erythropoda (Red-stemmed Hawthorn) (s)

Cupressus arizonica (see Hesperocyparis arizonica) (Arizona Cypress) (t)

Cylindropuntia echinocarpa (Silver Cholla) (s)

Cylindropuntia imbricata (Hardy Cholla Cactus) (s)

Dalea purpurea (Purple Prairie Clover) (p)

Dalea Purpurea ‘Stephanie’ (Purple Prairies Clover) (p)

Datura wrightii (meteloides, inoxia) (Angel’s Trumpet, Sacred Datura) (a,p)

Deschampsia caespitosa (Tufted Hair Grass) (gr)

Draba oligosperma (Few-Seeded Draba) (p)

Echinacea angustifolia (Narrow-leaf Coneflower) (p)

Echinacea pallida (Pale Purple Coneflower) (p)

Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) (p)

Echinocereus coccineus (Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus) (p)

Echinocereus fendleri (Sitting Cactus) (p)

Echunocereus x lloyii (Lloyd’s Hedgehog cactus) (p)

Echinocereus reichenbachii (Purple Candle Cactus) (p)

Echinocereus triglochidiatus (Claret Cup Hedgehog Cactus) (p)

Echinocereus trigloch. inermis (Spineless Claret Cup Cactus) (p)

Echinocereus viridiflorus (Green Pitaya Cactus)

Ephedra viridis (Mormon Tea) (s)

Eragrostis trichodes (Sand Love Grass) (gr)

Eragrostis spectabilis (Purple Love Grass) (gr)

Erigeron caespitosa (Tufted Fleabane) (p)

Erigeron compositus (Cutleaf Daisy) (p)

Erigeron formosissimus (Beautiful Fleabane) (p)

Erigeron linearis (Yellow Fleabane) (p)

Erigeron pumilus (Shaggy Fleabane) (p)

Erigeron speciosus (Aspen or Showy Fleabane) (p)

Eriogonum flavum flavum (p)

Eriogonum jamesii (Antelope Sage) (p)

Eriogonum niveum (White Buckwheat) (p)

Eriogonum ovalifolium (Cushion Buckwheat) (p)

Eriogonum umbellatum (Sulphur Flower) (p)

Eriogonum umbellatum v aureum ‘Kannah Creek’ (Kannah Creek Sulphur Flower) (p,gc)

Eriogonum umbellatum v aureum (Sulphur Buckwheat) (p, gc)

Eriogonum umbellatum v majus (Subalpine Buckwheat) (p, gc)

Eriogonum umbellatum v porteri

Eriogonum wrightii v wrightii (Snow Mesa Buckwheat)

Krascheninnikovia lanata (Winterfat) (s)

Erysimum capitatum (Western Wallflower) (bi)

Erysimum wheeleri (Wheeler’s Wallflower) (bi)

Fallugia paradoxa (Apache Plume) (s)

Fendlera rupicola (Cliff Fendlerbush) (s)

Forestiera neomexicana (New Mexico Privet) (s)

Fragaria vesca v americana (Wild Strawberry) (p, gc)

Gaillardia aristata (Indian Blanket, Firewheel) (p)

Gaillardia aristata BldrCo (Golden Blanketflower) (p)

Gentiana bigelovii (Bigelow’s Gentian) (p)

Geranium caespitosum (p)

Geranium fremontii (p)

Geranium richardsonii (Richardson’s Geranium) (p)

Geranium viscosissimum (Sticky Cranesbill) (p)

Geum triflorum (Prairie Smoke) (p)

Grindellia squarrosa (Rosinweed, Gumweed) (p)

Ipomopsis aggregata (Skyrocket, Scarlet Trumpet) (bi)

Ipomopsis rubra (Scarlet Gilia, Standing Cypress) (bi)

Gutierrezia sarothrae (Snakeweed) (p)

Helianthus maximilliani (Maximillian Sunflower)

Helianthus pumilus (Dwarf Sunflower) (p)

Helianthus salicifolius (Willow-leaf Sunflower) (p)

Hesperaloe parviflora (Red Yucca) (s)

Heterotheca jonesii (p) (Jones’ Goldenaster) (p)

Heterotheca pumila (Alpine Goldenaster) (p)

Holodiscus discolor (Creambush) (s)

Holodiscus dumosus (Rock Spirea, Ocean-spray) (s)

Humulus lupulus ‘Aureus’ (Golden Hops) (v)

Humulus lupulus v neomexicanus (New Mexico Hops) (v)

Hymenopappus filifolius (Threadleaf Sunflower) (p)

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris) acaulis (Sundancer Daisy) (p)

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris) argentea (Bitterweed) (p)

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris) grandiflora (Old Man of the Mountain, Alpine Sunflower) (p)

Hymenoxys (Helenium) hoopesii (Owl’s Claw) p

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris) scaposa ‘Prairie Sunshine’ (Perky Sue) (p)

Ipomoea leptophylla (Bush Morning Glory) (p)

Iris missouriensis (Native Wild Iris) (p)

Jamesia americana (Wax Flower) (s)

Juniperus communis (Common Juniper) (s, gc)

Juniperus monosperma (One-Seed Juniper) (t)

Liatris aspera (Rough Gayfeather) (p)

Liatris ligulistylis (Rocky Mountain Gayfeather) (p)

Liatris punctata (Spotted Gayfeather, Blazing Star) (p)

Lilium philadelphicum (Wood Lily) (p)

Linum lewisii (Native Blue Flax) (p)

Lithospermum multiflorum (Many-flowered Puccoon) (p)

Lobelia siphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia) (p)

Machaeranthera bigelovii (Bigelow’s Tansyaster) (bi)

Machaeranthera pattersonii (syn. M. bigelovii) (bi)

Machaeranthera tanacetifolia (Tahoka Daisy) (bi)

Mahonia fremontii (Fremont’s Desert Holly) (s)

Mahonia haematocarpa (Desert Holly) (s)

Mahonia repens (Creeping Mahonia) (gc)

Melampodium leucanthum (Blackfoot Daisy) (p)

Mentzelia decapetala (Blazing Star) (b/p)

Mentzelia nuda (Bractless Blazing Star) (p)

Mirabilis multiflora (Desert Four O’Clock) (p)

Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot, Bee-balm) (p)

Monarda fistulosa v. menthifolia (Wild Bergamot, Native Bee-balm) (p)

Monardella macrantha ‘Marion Sampson’ (Scarlet Coyote Mint) (p)

Muhlenbergia rigens (Deergrass) (gr)

Nolina microcarpa (Beargrass) (s)

Oenothera caespitosa  (Tufted Evening Primrose, Gumbo Lily) (p)

Oenothera howardii (Boulder Native Evening Primrose) (p)

Oenothera macrocarpa incana “Comanche Campfire’ (Comanche Campfire Evening Primrose) (p)

Oenothera macrocarpa incana “Silver Blade” (Silver Blade Evening Primrose) (p)

Opuntia fragilis (Brittle Prickly Pear cactus) (p)

Opuntia basilaris (Beavertail Cactus) (p)

Opuntia polyacantha ‘Peter Pan’ (Peter Pan Dwf. Prickly Pear Cactus) (p,gc)

Opuntia hybrids (Hybrid Prickly Pear cacti) (p)

Oryzopsis (Acnatherum) hymenoides (Indian Rice Grass) (gr)

Oxytropis besseyi (Bessey’s Locoweed) (p)

Oxytropis lambertii (Lambert’s Loco Weed) (p)

Oxytropis multiceps (p)

Oxytropis sericea (Silky Locoweed) (p)

Oxytropis splendens (Showy Locoweed) (p)

Panicum virgatum (Switchgrass) (gr)

Panicum virgatum ‘Prairie Sky’ (Blue Prairie Switchgrass) (gr)

Panicum v. ‘Shenandoah’ (gr)

Paxistima canbyi (Mountain-lover) (s,gc)

Pediocactus simpsonii (Mountain Ball Cactus)

Penstemon alamosensis (p)

Penstemon alpinus (p)

Penstemon ambiguus (Sand Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon angustifolius (Pagoda Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon arenicola (Sand Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon barbatus (Scarlet Bugler) (p)

Penstemon brandegeei (Brandege’s Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon caespitosus (Bluemat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon cardinalis (Cardinal Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon clutei (Sunset Crater Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon crandallii  (Crandall’s Mat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon cyananthus (Wasatch Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon eatonii (Firecracker Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon glaber (Smooth Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon grandiflorus (Shell-leaf Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon grandiflorus ‘Prairie Jewel’ (p)

Penstemon hallii (p)

Penstemon jamesii (James’ Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon lin. ssp coloradoensis ‘Silverton’ (Silverton Mat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon lin. ssp sileri (Siler’s Mat Penstemon (p)

Penstemon linarioides (Mat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon mensarum (Grand Mesa Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon palmeri (Fragrant Beardtongue) (p)

Penstemon pin. ‘Mersea’s Yellow’ (Yellow Pineleaf Penstemon) (p,gc)

Penstemon pin. v. ‘Compactum’ (dwf. Pineleaf Penstemon) (p,gc)

Penstemon pinifolius (Pineleaf Penstemon) (p,gc)

Penstemon pinifolius ‘Sunset Glow’ (Sunset Glow Penstemon) (p,gc)

Penstemon procerus (Smallflowered Penstemon)

Penstemon pseudospectabilis (Desert Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon rostriflorus (Bridges’ Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon rydbergii (Rydberg’s Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon secundiflorus (Sidebells Penstemon, Orchid Beardtongue,) (p)

Penstemon strictus (Rocky Mt. Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon strictus ‘Bandera’ (p)

Penstemon superbus (Coral Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon teucroides (Pine-mat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon virens (Blue Mist/Foothills Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon virgatus (Wandbloom Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon virgatus ssp.asa-grayi (Wandbloom Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon whippleanus (Dusky Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon xylus (Tushar Mt. Penstemon) (p)

Petalostemon (Dalea) purpureum (Purple Prairie Clover) (p)

Philadelphus lewisii “Cheyenne” (Cheyenne Mockorange) (s)

Philadelphus microphyllus (Littleleaf Mockorange) (s)

Physaria bellii (Bell’s Twinpod) (p)

Physocarpus monogynus (Mountain Ninebark) (s)

Physocarpus monogynus ‘Grey Rock’ (Grey Rock Mountain Ninebark) (s)

Picea pungens (Blue Spruce) (t)

Pinus aristata (Bristlecone Pine) (t)

Pinus cembroides var. edulis (Pinyon Pine) (t)

Pinus cembroides var. edulis, dwf. (Dwarf Pinyon Pine) (s)

Pinus flexilis, dwarf (Limber Pine (s)

Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine) (t)

Polemonium foliosissimum (Towering Jacob’s Ladder) (p)

Polemonium reptans (Creeping Jacob’s Ladder) (p)

Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen) (t)

Prunus americana (Wild Plum) (s/t)

Prunus besseyi (Western Sand Cherry) (s)

Prunus besseyi ‘Boulder Weeping’ (Weeping Western Sandcherry) (s, gc)

Prunus besseyi “Pawnee Buttes” (Dwf. Western Sandcherry) (s)

Prunus virginiana (Western Sandcherry) (s/t)

Psilostrophe tagetina (Paperflower) (monocarpic)

Pulsatilla patens (Pasqueflower) (p)

Purshia stansburyana (syn. Cowania Mexicana) (Cliffrose) (s)

Purshia tridentata (Antelope Bitterbrush) (s)

Quercus gambelii (Gambel Oak) (t)

Quercus gambelii ‘Gila Monster’ (t)

Quercus turbinella (Shrub Live Oak) (t)

Quercus undulata (Wavyleaf Oak) (t)

Ratibida columnifera (Mexican Hat Coneflower)(p)

Ratibida columnifera var. pulcherrima (Red Mexican Hat) (p)

Rhus glabra cismontana (Rocky Mt. Sumac) (s)

Rhus glabra laciniata (Cutleaf Rocky Mt. Sumac) (s)

Rhus trilobata (Three-leaf Sumac, Skunkbush) (s)

Rhus trilobata ‘Autumn Amber’ (Autumn Amber Creeping Three-leaf Sumac) (s, gc)

Ribes aureum (Golden Currant) (s)

Ribes aureum ‘Gwen’s Buffalo’ (Gwen’s Buffalo Currant) (s)

Ribes cereum (Wax Currant) (s)

Ribes odoratum “Crandall” (Crandall Clove Currant) (s)

Robinia neomexicana (New Mexico Locust) (s)

Rosa arkansana (Prairie Rose) (s)

Rosa woodsii (Woods’ Rose) (s)

Rubus deliciosus (Boulder Raspberry) (s)

Rudbeckia hirta (Blackeyed Susan) (p)

Rudbeckia laciniata (p)

Rudbeckia missouriensis (p)

Rudbeckia subtomentosa (Sweet Coneflower) (p)

Rudbeckia tomentosa (short-lived perenn.)

Salix irrorata (Bluestem Willow) (s)

Salvia azurea ssp grandiflora (p)

Salvia dorrii (Purple Sage) (p)

Salvia pitcheri (Pitcher Sage) (p)

Salvia reptans (Sand Sage) (p)

Sambucus racemosa (syn. S. pubens) (Red Elderberry) (s)

Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem) (gr)

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Blaze’ (gr)

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Prairie Blues’ (gr)

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘The Blues’ (gr)

Scutellaria resinosa (Prairie Skullcap) (p)

Scutellaria resinosa ‘Smoky Hills’ (Smoky Hills Prairie Skullcap)

Sedum lanceolatum (Stonecrop) (p,gc)

Senecio fendleri (p)

Senecio plattenensis (p)

Shepherdia argentea (Silver Buffaloberry) (s)

Shepherdia argentea ‘Silver Totem’ (Silver Totem Buffaloberry) (s)

Shepherdia argentea x rotundifolia (s)

Silene laciniata ((Fringed Indian Pink) p)

Silene regia (Royal Catchfly) (p)

Sisyrinchium angustifolium (Blue-eyed Grass) (p)

Sisyrinchium montanum (Blue-eyed Grass) (p)

Sisyrinchium campestre (Blue-eyed Grass) (p)

Solidago nana (Dwarf Goldenrod) (p)

Solidago ptarmicoides (Upland White Goldenrod) (p)

Solidago rigida (Stiff Goldenrod) (p)

Solidago speciosa (Showy Goldenrod) (p)

Solidago speciosa ‘Wichita Mountains’ (p)

Solidago petiolaris (Downy Goldenrod) (p)

Sorbus scopulina (Native Mountain Ash) (t)

Sorghastrum nutans (Indian Grass) (gr)

Sorghastrum nutans ‘Pawnee’ (‘Pawnee’ Indian Grass) (gr)

Sphaeralcea fendleri (fender’s Globemallow) (p)

Sphaeralcea coccinea (Cowboy’s Delight) (p)

Sphaeralcea munroana (Orange Globe Mallow) (p)

Sporobolis airoides (Alkali Sacaton) (gr)

Sporobolis wrightii (Giant, Wright’s Sacaton) (gr)

Sporobolus heterolepis (Prairie Dropseed) (gr)

Stanleya pinnata (Prince’s Plume) (p)

Symphoricarpus oreophyllus (Mountain Snowberry) (s)

Symphoricarpus occidentalis (Wolfberry) (s)

Symphoricarpus albus (Western Snowberry) (s)

Symphoricarpus rotundifolius) (see S. oreophyllus) (s)

Talinum calycinum (Rock Rose) (a/p)

Thermopsis divaricarpa (Native Golden Banner) (p)

Thermopsis montana (Mountain Golden Banner) (p)

Townsendia grandiflora (showy Townsendia) ()

Townsendia eximia (Rocky Mt.Townsend Daisy) (bi)

Townsendia hookeri (Hooker’s Townsend Daisy) (p)

Tradescantia occidentalis (Western Spiderwort) (p)

Verbena (Glandularia) bipinnatifida (Prairie Verbena) (p)

Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain) (p)

Verbena stricta (Hoary Vervain) (p)

Verbena (Glandularia) wrightii (Davis Mts. Mock Vervain) (p)

Vitis riparia (Riverbank Grape) (v)

Wyethia (Scabrethia) scabra (Badlands Mule Ears) (p)

Wyethia helianthoides (White Mule Ears) (p)

Yucca baccata (Broadleaf Yucca, Banana Yucca) (s)

Yucca elata (Soap Tree Yucca) (s)

Yucca nana (Dwarf Yucca) (s)

Yucca glauca (Soapweed Yucca) (s)

Yucca harrimaniae (Dollhouse Yucca) (s)

Zinnia grandiflora (Prairie Zinnia) (p)

Zizia aptera (Heart-leaf Golden Alexanders (p)

 

We’re Expecting These New Plants!

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye Tomato

These are the plants we’re expecting this weekend.  They may not all arrive when we expect them – but there are so many great plants to choose from that we’re sure you’ll be satisfied with the selection in store!

TOMATO

Extreme Bush
Carmello
Gold Medal
Magic Bullet
Orange King
Pink Berkeley Tie Dye

PEPPER

Capriglio Rossa
Gatherer’s Gold
King of the North – Sweet
Marconi Red
Poblano
Beaver Dam
Anaheim
Pueblo/Mosco
NuMex 6-4
Sweet Banana
Surmeli

TOMATILLOS

Grande Rio Verde
Purple Blush

 

Aster x frikartii ‘Monch’

We now have a Big Influx of native plants, including many Penstemon species!

PERENNIALS, etc.

Achillea mil. ‘Paprika’
Agastache cana
Agastache ‘Firebird’
Agastache foeniculum, Anise Hyssop (native)
Agastache rupestris
Agastache ‘Sinning’
Akebia quinata – Chocolate vine
Alcea rugosa
Alchemilla mollis
Allium cernuum
Allium Millenium
Anemone ‘Cinderella’, ‘Honorine Jobert’, multifida ‘Rubra’, ‘September Charm’
Antennaria dioica ‘Rubra’
Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’
Asclepias incarnata ‘Cinderella’
Aster ‘Alert’, ‘Lady in Black’, oblongifolius (native), obl. ‘Raydon’s Favorite’
Aster x frikartii ‘Monch’
Astilbe chinensis ‘Pumila’
Baptisia minor
Begonia grandis v. Evansiana
Berlandiera lyrata – Chocolate Flower(native)
Callirhoe involucrata – Poppy Mallow (native)
Campanula rotundifolia
Centaurea montana, Mountain Cornflower
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, Plumbago
Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’
Corydalis ochroleuca
Creeping Thyme, Red, Wooly, White
Delosperma nubigenum dwarf, ‘Granita Orange’, ‘Gold Nugget’, ‘Granita Raspberry’, ‘Red Mountain’
Delphinium ‘Millenium Dwarf Stars’, ‘Summer Blues’
Dicentra eximia (dwarf), ‘King of Hearts’, ‘Luxuriant’, spectabilis ‘Alba’
Dictamnus a. ‘Purpureus’ – Gas Plant
Digitalis grandiflora, x mertonensis – Foxglove varieties
Draba aizoides
Echinacea pallida, Pale Coneflower, purpurea, angustifolia (native), ‘Cheyenne Spirit’
Engelmannia peristenia (native)
Epimedium v. ‘Sulphureum’
Eriogonum ‘Kannah Creek’
Gaillardia ‘Kobold’
Gallium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, shade
Geranium ‘Johnson’s Blue’ – sun
Geranium ‘Rozanne’
Geum coccineum ‘Koi’, triflorum
‘Goldie’ Golden Creeping Jenny
Helleborus x ‘Orientalis’
Herniaria glabra – Rupturewort
Heuchera ‘Caramel’, ‘Forever Red’, ‘Melting Fire’, ‘Palace Purple’, ‘Ruby Bells’, ‘Silver Scroll’
Hosta ‘Abiqua Drinking Gourd’, ‘Blue Angel’, ‘Blue Mouse Ears’, ‘Dream Queen’, ‘Earth Angel’, ‘First Frost’, ‘Patriot’, ‘Francee’, ‘Guacamole’, ‘Praying Hands’, ‘Rainforest Sunrise’, ‘Regal Splendor’, ‘Royal Standard’
Iberis ‘Autumn Beauty’
Ipomopsis aggregata
Iris pallida ‘Aurea Variegata’
Jovibarba hirta s. arenaria
Lamium ‘Purple Dragon’ – shade
Liatris aspera, ligulistylis
Linum perenne ‘Lewisii’
Lysimachia nummularia ‘Goldie’
Nepeta ‘Jr. Walker’ – catmint
Oenothera ‘Silver Blade’
Origanum ‘Amethyst Falls’, ‘Herrenhausen’, ‘Kent’s Beauty’ – ornamental oregano
Orostachys iwarenge, spinosus
Othonna capensis
Paeonia ‘Duchess De Nemours’, ‘Flame’, ‘Karl Rosenfield’, ‘Red Charm’, ‘Red Sarah Bernhardt’ – Peony, perennial
Papaver ‘Patty’s Plum’, ‘Allegro’, ‘Royal Wedding’, ‘Beauty of Livermore’, Pizzicato – Oriental poppies
Penstemon pinifolius ‘Steppe Suns’
Phlox div, ‘Louisiana Blue’, ‘Pink’, ‘White’
Phlox paniculata ‘Super Ka-Pow Coral’
Polygonatum m. ‘Variegatum’- shade
Pulmonaria ‘Coral Springs’, ‘E.B. Anderson’ – Lungwort – shade
Thymus – Red Creeping, Wooly
Veronica Waterperry Blue
Rosularia chrysantha, serpentinica
Rudbeckia ‘Blackjack Gold’, fulgida v speciaosa, missouriensis, subtomentosa
Salvia azurea ‘Grandiflora’, greggii ‘Furman’s Red’, pachyphylla
Scabiosa caucasica ‘Fama’
Scutellaria ‘Smoky Hills’
Sedum ‘Autumn Fire’, glanduliferum, spurium ‘John Creech’, ‘Matrona’, spectabile ‘Neon’, spurium ‘Tricolor’, tetractinum, f. ‘Weihen. Gold’
Sempervivum ‘Classic’, arach. ‘Cobweb’, cal. ‘Mrs. Giuseppi’, mixed, ‘Red Heart’, c. mon. ‘Red Tips’, ‘Twilight Blues’
Silphium laciniatum, perfoliatum (native)
Solidago ‘Crown of Rays’, speciosa’Wichita Mtn’ (native) – goldenrod
Thalictrum aquilegifolium, rochebrunianum
Trifolium r. ‘Pentaphyllum’
Verbena canadensis
Vernonia lettermannii
Veronica ‘Crystal River’, oletnsis, ‘Purpleicious’, ‘Snowmass’, ‘Tidal Pool, ‘Illumination’
Vinca minor ‘Bowles Variety’, ‘Ralph Shugert’
Viola corsica – corsican violet
Viola wickroti ‘Ultima Morpho’
Zauschneria – ‘Orange Carpet’
Zizia Aptera

AND EVEN MORE!

This Weekend’s New Plants!

Nasturtium

New Plants!

ANNUAL

Calendula: ‘Indian Prince’, ‘Lemon Cream’, ‘Pink Surprise’; Cleome ‘Rose Queen’, ‘Violet Queen’, Coleus ‘Black Dragon’, ‘Rainbow Mix’, ‘Sunset’; ‘Purple Globe’ Amaranth; ‘Dakota Gold’ Helenium (Native); Nasturtium: ‘Alaska Mix’, ‘Black Velvet’, ‘Cherry Rose’, ‘Gleam Mix’, ‘Jewel Mix’, ‘King Theo’, ‘Ladybird’, ‘Moonlight’, ‘Peach Melba’, ‘Salmon Baby’, ‘Tom Thumb’; Nicotiana alata ’Crimson’, ‘Lime’; Nigella ‘Miss Jekyll’ Love in a Mist; Desert Bluebells, Phacelia (Native); ’ Sweet Alyssum ‘Carpet of Snow’; Tanacetum ‘Tetra Wonder’ Double-flowered Feverfew

BIENNIAL

Asphodeline damascena, Ithuriel’s Spear; Digitalis purpureus ’Apricot Beauty’ Foxglove; Eryngium creticum; Erysimum capitatum, Western Wallflower (Native); Thelesperma filifolium, Greenthread, Navajo Tea (Native); Townsendia eximia, Rocky Mt. Townsend Daisy (Native)

PERENNIAL

Achillea ‘Golden Fleece’; Alcea rosea ‘Jet Black’ Hollyhock; Dianthus nardiformis; Draba rigida, Whitlow Grass; Erigeron compositus ‘Lavender’ (Native); ’Pink’ (Native), Erigeron lineaeris, Yellow Fleabane (Native); Erigeron pumilum, Alpine Fleabane (Native); Erigonum jamesii v jamesii (Native); Geum ‘Mrs. Bradshaw’; Hedysarum boreale, Northern Sweetvetch (Native); Heliomeris multiflora, Showy Goldeneye (Native);  Leucanthemum x supubum ‘Becky’, ‘Snowcap’, Compact Shasta Daisy; Lupinus perennis; Lupinus polyphyllus ‘Chatelaine’ (pink/white); ‘My Castle’ (red/white), ‘The Governor’ (Blue/white), Monarda didyma ‘Balmy Purple’, ‘Jacob Cline’ Tall Scarlet Bee balm; Oenothera berlandieri ‘Siskyou Pink’; Oenothera caespitosa, Tufted Evening Primrose (Native); Phlox paniculata ‘Bright Eyes’, ‘Laura’, ‘Nicky’, ‘Red Riding Hood’, ‘Starfire’; Physaria bellii, Bell’s Twinpod (Native); Physostygia ‘Summer Snow, White Obedient Plant; Polemonium viscosum ‘Blue Whirl’; Sagina sublata, Iris Moss; Salvia ‘Blue Hill’; Salvia ‘East Friesland’; Salvia hypargeia; Salvia nemorosa ‘Cardonna’, ‘Rose Marvel’, Scabiosa ‘Flutter Blue’, ‘Flutter White’, ‘Pink Mist’; Solidago ptarmicoides (Native); Sphaeromeria capitata, Rock Tansy (Native); Stachys lanata ‘Helene von Stein’; Symphyotrichum laeve, Smooth Aster BoCo (Native); Thums praecox ‘Coccineus’, Red Creeping Thyme; Thymus pseudolanuginosus, Wooly Thyme; Veronica tauricola, Turkish Rock Speedwell; Verinica ‘Waterperry Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Plants – This Weekend!

Penstemon ‘Silverton’

New Plants!

PERENNIALS

Achillea mill. ‘Paprika
Agastache aurantiaca ‘Coronado’    *Plant Select
Allium ‘Millennium’
Aquilegia barnebeyi
Aquilegia chrysantha
Aquilegia coerulea
Aster alpinus ‘Goliath’
Aubrieta deltoidea ‘Purple Gem’
Aurinia saxatilis ‘Gold Ball’
Callirhoe involucrata
Campanula cochleariifolia
Campanula poscharskyana
Centranthus ruber
Cerastium tomentosum
Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’
Delosperma ‘Firespinner’       *Plant Select
Delosperma ‘Mesa Verde’       *Plant Select
Delosperma nubigenum
Delosperma ‘Red Mt. Flame’   *Plant Select
Delosperma ‘Table Mountain’   *Plant Select
Dianthus grat. ‘Firewitch’
Epilobium canum garrettii ‘Orange Carpet’

*Plant Select
Erigeron formosissimum ‘Rambler’ *Plant Select
Eriogonum umbellatum
Eriogonum umbellatum v aureum ‘Kannah Creek’   *Plant Select
Erodium chrysanthum        *Plant Select
Fragaria vesca americana –  Wild Strawberry
Gaillardia aristata
Galium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff
Gaura lindheimeri ‘Summer Breeze’
Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Bevan’s Variety’
Geranium viscosissimum
Geum triflorum
Gypsophila repens ‘Rosea’
Helianthemum ‘Wisley Pink’
Heuchera sanguinea ‘Splendens’
Heuchera micrantha ‘Palace Purple’
Iberis sempervirens
Liatris ligulistylus
Liatris punctata
Lupinus polyphyllus ‘The Governor’
Mirabilis multiflora
Monarda fistulosa v menthifolia
Monarda ‘Gardenview Scarlet’
Nepeta x faassenii
Nepeta x faassenii ‘Six Hills Giant’
Nepeta x faassenii ‘Walker’s Low’
Oenothera fremontii ‘Shimmer’ *Plant Select
Oenothera macrocarpa
Origanum levigatum ‘Herrenhausen’
Paxistima canbyi, Mountain Lover
Penstemon linifolia  coloradoensis ‘Silverton’

*Plant Select
Penstemon mensarum
Penstemon rostriflorus
Penstemon xylus, Tushar Penstemon
Potentilla neumanniana ‘Nana’
Prunella laciniata
Pulsatilla vulgaris
Pulsatilla vulgaris ‘Red Clock’
Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Goldsturm’
Salvia azurea grandiflora, Pitcher Sage
Salvia daghestanica, Platinum Sage

*Plant Select
Salvia x lemmonii ‘Windwalker Desert Rose’

*Plant Select
Salvia reptans ‘Autumn Sapphire’

*Plant Select
Salvia ‘Windwalker Royal Red’
Santolina chamaecyparrissus, Lavender Cotton
Saponaria ocymoides, Rock Soapwort
Scrophularia macarantha, Red Birds in a Tree
Sedum acre, Evergreen Stonecrop ‘Goldmoss’
Sedum hybridum, Oakleaf Stonecrop
Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’
Sedum spurium ‘Red Carpet’
Sedum spurium ‘Voodoo’
Sisyrichium montanum, Mountain Blue-Eyed Grass
Solidago canadensis ‘Golden Baby’
Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’
Sphaeralcea coccinea, Cowboy’s Delight
Sphaeralcea munroana, Orange Globe Mallow
Staychs lavandulifolia, Pink Cotton Lamb’s Ear
Teucrium chamaedrys, Wall Germander
Thermopsis divaricarpa, Golden Banner
Thermopsis lupinoides ‘Golden Candles’
Thymus praecox ‘Albiflorus’, White Creeping Thyme
Thymus praecox ‘Coccineus’, Red Creeping Thyme
Thymus praecox ‘Minus’, Dwarf Creeping Thyme
Thymus praecox pseudolanuginosus, Wooly Thyme
Tradescantia occidentalis, Western Spiderwort
Veronica x ‘Crystal River’ *Plant Select
Veronica liwanensis, Turkish Speedwell
Veronica pectinata, Wooly Speedwell
Veronica prostrata, Prostrate Speedwell
Veronica x ‘Snowmass’ Speedwell *Plant Select
Veronica specata incana, Silver Speedwell
Veronica ‘Sunny Border Blue’
Vinca major, Big-leaf Periwinkle
Vinca minor ‘Bowles Variety’
Viola corsica, Corsican Viola
Waldesteinia ternata, Barren Strawberry

 

 

 

 

 

New In Store – This Weekend!

Pansy Ullswater

New Plants!

PANSY, VIOLA

Pansy –  ‘Alpenglow’, ‘Beaconsfield’, ‘Claret’, ‘Silver Bride’, ‘Ullswater’ (pictured)

Viola –  ‘Bambini’, Johnny Jump-Up, ‘White Perfection’

 

PERENNIALS

Achillea – ‘Little Moonshine’, ‘Paprika’

Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’

Ajuga –  reptans ‘Black Scallop’, ‘Bronze Beauty’, ‘Burgundy  Glow’, ‘Catlin’s Giant’; A. tenorii ‘Chocolate Chip’

Coreopsis ‘Moonbeam’

Delosperma (Iceplant) –  ‘Firespinner’, ‘Garnet Jewel of the Desert’, Yellow Hardy Iceplant, ‘Ruby Jewel of the Desert’

Ibiris ‘Purity’

Lamium ‘Orchid Frost’

Oenothera ‘Siskyou Pink’

Phlox – ‘Crimson’s Beauty’, ‘Drummond’s Pink’, ‘Purple Beauty’, ‘White’, ‘Rose Marvel’

Sedum –  ‘Angelina’, ‘Dragon’s Blood’

Stachys ‘Helen von Stein’

Thyme –  ‘Pink Chintz’, Red Creeping Thyme, Elfin, Wooly Thyme, albiflorus

HERBS

Lavender –  ‘Hidcote’, ‘Munstead’, vera, ‘Grosso’

Mint – Peppermint, Spearmint, ‘Kentucky Colonel’

Oregano – Greek Oregano

Sage – Green and Purple Culinary sage

Thyme – Lemon thyme, German Winter thyme

FRUIT

Strawberry – Fragaria vesca ‘Alexandria’, ‘Yellow Wonder’

 

 

 

2026 – Native Plants We Often Have For Sale

These are native plants that we often have for sale during the growing season. Availability does change every year, but we grow and buy a wide variety of natives because they are so successful in our gardens.

KEY: t = tree, s = shrub, v = vine, gr = grass, gc = ground cover, p = perennial, b = biennial, a = annual

 

Acer glabrum (Rocky Mt. Maple) (t)

Acer grandidentatum (Bigtooth Maple) (t)

Achillea lanulosa (Native White Yarrow) (p)

Agastache aurantiaca Coronado

Agastache cana (Hummingbird Mint) (p)

Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop)

Agastache rupestris (Sunset Hyssop)

Agastache urticifolia

Agave parryi (Hardy Century Plant) (s)

Agave parryi ssp neomexicana (s)

Agave sp. Big Blue

Agave utahensis x parryi v couesii

Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion) (p)

Amelanchier alnifolia (Saskatoon Serviceberry) (s/t)

Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Regent’ (Regent Serviceberry) (s)

Amelanchier utahensis (Utah Serviceberry) (s/t)

Amorpha canescens (Leadplant) (s)

Amorpha fruticosa (False Indigo) (s)

Amorpha nana (Dwarf Leadplant) (s)

Amsonia jonesii (Jones’ Bluestar) (p)

Achnatherum (Oryzopsis) hymenoides (Indian Rice grass)

Achnatherum Calamagrostis (Silver Spike Grass)

Achnatherum robustum (Sleepy Grass)

Andropogon g. ‘Pawnee’ (Pawnee Big Blustem) (g)

Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem) (g)

Anemone (Pulsatilla) patens (Pasque Flower) (p)

Anemone multifida v. globosa (p)

Antennaria dioica (Pussytoes) (gc)

Antennaria dioica ‘Rubra’ (Red Pussytoes) (gc)

Antennaria parvifolia (Pussytoes) (gc)

Antennaria parvifolia ‘McClintock’ (gc)

Antennaria rosea (Pink Pussytoes) (gc)

Antennaria rubra (gc) (Pink Pussytoes) (gc)

Aquilegia barnebyi (p)

Aquilegia canadensis (p)

Aquilegia chrysantha (Southwest Yellow Columbine) (p)

Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Denver Gold’ (p)

Aquilegia coerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine) (p)

Aquilegia desertorum (Arizona Columbine) (p)

Aquilegia elegantula (Rocky Mt. Red Columbine) (p)

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Bearberry, Kinnikinnick) (gc)

Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Chieftain’ (gc/s)

Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Mock Bearberry’ (gc)

Arctostaphylos x coloradoensis ‘Panchito’ (s)Argemone hispida (Rough Prickly Poppy) (p)

Argemone polyanthemos (Prickly Poppy) (p)

Argemone hispida (Rough Prickly Poppy)

Artemisia cana (Silver Sage) (s)

Artemisia filifolia (Sand Sage) (s)

Artemisia frigida (Fringed Sage) (gc)

Artemisia ludoviciana (Prairie Sage) (p,gc)

Artemisia tridentata ssp nova (Black Sage) (s)

Artemisia tridentata (Western Big Sage) (s)

Asclepias arenaria (Western Sand Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias asperula (Antelope Horn Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias hirtella (Tall Green Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias speciosa (Showy Milkweed) (p)

Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed) (p)

Asclepias viridis (Green Antelope Horn)

Aster coloradoensis (see Xanthisma coloradoense) (Colorado Aster) (p)

Aster ericoides (See Symphyotrichum ericoides) (Wreath Aster) (p)

Aster laevis (see Symphyotrichum leave) (Smooth Aster) (p)

Aster oblongifolius (see Symphyotrichum oblongifolium) (Aromatic Aster) (p)

Aster oblongifolius ‘October Skies’ (see Sympyotrichum ob. ‘October Skies’ (p)

Aster oblongifolius ‘Raydon’s Favorite’ (see Symphyotrichum oblongifolium ‘Raydon’s Favorite’ (p)

Aster porteri (Symphyotrichum porteri) (Porter’s Aster) (p)

Atriplex canescens (Four-wing Saltbush) (s)

Atriplex confertifolia (Shadscale) (s)

Baileya multiradiata (Desert Marigold) (a)

Balsamorrhiza sagittate (Arrowleaf Balsamroot) (p)

Baptisia australis (False Indigo) (p)

Baptisia australis v minor (Dwf. False Indigo) (p)

Baptisia lactea (White False Indigo) (p)

Berlandiera lyrata (Chocolate Flower) (p)

Blepharoneuron tricholepis (Pine Dropseed) (gr)

Bouteloua curtipendula (Side Oats Grama) (gr)

Bouteloua curtipendula ‘Trailway’ (gr)

Bouteloua gracilis (Blue Grama) (gr)

Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’ (gr)

Callirhoe involucrata (Poppy Mallow, Wine Cups) (p,gc)

Calylophus hartw. lavandulifolius (see Oenothera lavandulifolia) (Lavender-leaf Sundrops) (p)

Calylophus (see Oenothera) hartwegii v fendleri (Fendler’s Sundrops) (p)

Calylophus serrulatus (Dwarf Sundrops) (p)

Calylophus serrulatus “Prairie Lode” (Dwarf Sundrops) (p)

Campanula rotundifolia (Mountain Harebell) (p)

Castilleja integra (Indian Paintbrush) (p)

Ceanothus ovatus (Prairie Redroot) (s)

Celtis occidentalis (Western Hackberry) (t)

Celtis reticulata (Netleaf Hackberry) (t)

Ceratoides (see Krascheninnikovia, Erotia) lanata (Winterfat) (s)

Cercocarpus intricatus (Little-leaf Mt. Mahogany) (s)

Cercocarpus ledifolius (Curl-leaf Mt. Mahogany) (s/t)

Cercocarpus montanus (True Leaf Mt. Mahogany) (s)

Chamaebateria millefolium (Fernbush) (s)

Chilopsis linearis (Desert Willow) (t)

Cholla Cactus, hardy species (See Cylindropuntia) (s)

Ericameria (Chrysothamnus) nauseosus albicaulis (Tall Blue Rabbitbrush) (s)

Ericameria (Chrysothamnus) nauseosus nauseosus (Dwf. Blue Rabbitbrush) (s)

Ericameria (Chrysothamnus) viscidiflorus (Tall Green Rabbitbrush) (s)

Clematis hirsutissima (Sugar Bowls) (p)

Clematis ligusticifolia (Western Virgins Bower) (v)

Clematis scottii (Scott’s Sugarbowls) (p)

Cornus sericea (Red-twig Dogwood) (s)

Coryphantha missouriensis (Nipple Cactus)

Coryphantha vivipara (Ball Cactus)

Crataegus erythropoda (Red-stemmed Hawthorn) (s)

Cupressus arizonica (see Hesperocyparis arizonica) (Arizona Cypress) (t)

Cylindropuntia echinocarpa (Silver Cholla) (s)

Cylindropuntia imbricata (Hardy Cholla Cactus) (s)

Dalea purpurea (Purple Prairie Clover) (p)

Dalea Purpurea ‘Stephanie’ (Purple Prairies Clover) (p)

Datura wrightii (meteloides, inoxia) (Angel’s Trumpet, Sacred Datura) (a,p)

Deschampsia caespitosa (Tufted Hair Grass) (gr)

Draba oligosperma (Few-Seeded Draba) (p)

Echinacea angustifolia (Narrow-leaf Coneflower) (p)

Echinacea pallida (Pale Purple Coneflower) (p)

Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) (p)

Echinocereus coccineus (Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus) (p)

Echinocereus fendleri (Sitting Cactus) (p)

Echunocereus x lloyii (Lloyd’s Hedgehog cactus) (p)

Echinocereus reichenbachii (Purple Candle Cactus) (p)

Echinocereus triglochidiatus (Claret Cup Hedgehog Cactus) (p)

Echinocereus trigloch. inermis (Spineless Claret Cup Cactus) (p)

Echinocereus viridiflorus (Green Pitaya Cactus)

Ephedra viridis (Mormon Tea) (s)

Eragrostis trichodes (Sand Love Grass) (gr)

Eragrostis spectabilis (Purple Love Grass) (gr)

Erigeron caespitosa (Tufted Fleabane) (p)

Erigeron compositus (Cutleaf Daisy) (p)

Erigeron formosissimus (Beautiful Fleabane) (p)

Erigeron linearis (Yellow Fleabane) (p)

Erigeron pumilus (Shaggy Fleabane) (p)

Erigeron speciosus (Aspen or Showy Fleabane) (p)

Eriogonum flavum flavum (p)

Eriogonum jamesii (Antelope Sage) (p)

Eriogonum niveum (White Buckwheat) (p)

Eriogonum ovalifolium (Cushion Buckwheat) (p)

Eriogonum umbellatum (Sulphur Flower) (p)

Eriogonum umbellatum v aureum ‘Kannah Creek’ (Kannah Creek Sulphur Flower) (p,gc)

Eriogonum umbellatum v aureum (Sulphur Buckwheat) (p, gc)

Eriogonum umbellatum v majus (Subalpine Buckwheat) (p, gc)

Eriogonum umbellatum v porteri

Eriogonum wrightii v wrightii (Snow Mesa Buckwheat)

Krascheninnikovia lanata (Winterfat) (s)

Erysimum capitatum (Western Wallflower) (bi)

Erysimum wheeleri (Wheeler’s Wallflower) (bi)

Fallugia paradoxa (Apache Plume) (s)

Fendlera rupicola (Cliff Fendlerbush) (s)

Forestiera neomexicana (New Mexico Privet) (s)

Fragaria vesca v americana (Wild Strawberry) (p, gc)

Gaillardia aristata (Indian Blanket, Firewheel) (p)

Gaillardia aristata BldrCo (Golden Blanketflower) (p)

Gentiana bigelovii (Bigelow’s Gentian) (p)

Geranium caespitosum (p)

Geranium fremontii (p)

Geranium richardsonii (Richardson’s Geranium) (p)

Geranium viscosissimum (Sticky Cranesbill) (p)

Geum triflorum (Prairie Smoke) (p)

Grindellia squarrosa (Rosinweed, Gumweed) (p)

Ipomopsis aggregata (Skyrocket, Scarlet Trumpet) (bi)

Ipomopsis rubra (Scarlet Gilia, Standing Cypress) (bi)

Gutierrezia sarothrae (Snakeweed) (p)

Helianthus maximilliani (Maximillian Sunflower)

Helianthus pumilus (Dwarf Sunflower) (p)

Helianthus salicifolius (Willow-leaf Sunflower) (p)

Hesperaloe parviflora (Red Yucca) (s)

Heterotheca jonesii (p) (Jones’ Goldenaster) (p)

Heterotheca pumila (Alpine Goldenaster) (p)

Holodiscus discolor (Creambush) (s)

Holodiscus dumosus (Rock Spirea, Ocean-spray) (s)

Humulus lupulus ‘Aureus’ (Golden Hops) (v)

Humulus lupulus v neomexicanus (New Mexico Hops) (v)

Hymenopappus filifolius (Threadleaf Sunflower) (p)

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris) acaulis (Sundancer Daisy) (p)

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris) argentea (Bitterweed) (p)

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris) grandiflora (Old Man of the Mountain, Alpine Sunflower) (p)

Hymenoxys (Helenium) hoopesii (Owl’s Claw) p

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris) scaposa ‘Prairie Sunshine’ (Perky Sue) (p)

Ipomoea leptophylla (Bush Morning Glory) (p)

Iris missouriensis (Native Wild Iris) (p)

Jamesia americana (Wax Flower) (s)

Juniperus communis (Common Juniper) (s, gc)

Juniperus monosperma (One-Seed Juniper) (t)

Liatris aspera (Rough Gayfeather) (p)

Liatris ligulistylis (Rocky Mountain Gayfeather) (p)

Liatris punctata (Spotted Gayfeather, Blazing Star) (p)

Lilium philadelphicum (Wood Lily) (p)

Linum lewisii (Native Blue Flax) (p)

Lithospermum multiflorum (Many-flowered Puccoon) (p)

Lobelia siphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia) (p)

Machaeranthera bigelovii (Bigelow’s Tansyaster) (bi)

Machaeranthera pattersonii (syn. M. bigelovii) (bi)

Machaeranthera tanacetifolia (Tahoka Daisy) (bi)

Mahonia fremontii (Fremont’s Desert Holly) (s)

Mahonia haematocarpa (Desert Holly) (s)

Mahonia repens (Creeping Mahonia) (gc)

Melampodium leucanthum (Blackfoot Daisy) (p)

Menodora scabra (Rough Menodora) (subshrub)

Mentzelia decapetala (Blazing Star) (b/p)

Mentzelia nuda (Bractless Blazing Star) (p)

Mirabilis multiflora (Desert Four O’Clock) (p)

Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot, Bee-balm) (p)

Monarda fistulosa v. menthifolia (Wild Bergamot, Native Bee-balm) (p)

Monardella macrantha ‘Marion Sampson’ (Scarlet Coyote Mint) (p)

Muhlenbergia rigens (Deergrass) (gr)

Nolina microcarpa (Beargrass) (s)

Oenothera caespitosa  (Tufted Evening Primrose, Gumbo Lily) (p)

Oenothera howardii (Boulder Native Evening Primrose) (p)

Oenothera macrocarpa (missouriensis) (Missouri Evening Primrose)

Oenothera macrocarpa incana “Comanche Campfire’ (Comanche Campfire Evening Primrose) (p)

Oenothera macrocarpa incana “Silver Blade” (Silver Blade Evening Primrose) (p)

Opuntia fragilis (Brittle Prickly Pear cactus) (p)

Opuntia fragilis var. denudata ‘Potato’ (Potato cactus)

Opuntia basilaris (Beavertail Cactus) (p)

Opuntia polyacantha ‘Peter Pan’ (Peter Pan Dwf. Prickly Pear Cactus) (p,gc)

Opuntia hybrids (Hybrid Prickly Pear cacti) (p)

Oryzopsis (Acnatherum) hymenoides (Indian Rice Grass) (gr)

Oxytropis besseyi (Bessey’s Locoweed) (p)

Oxytropis lambertii (Lambert’s Loco Weed) (p)

Oxytropis multiceps (p)

Oxytropis sericea (Silky Locoweed) (p)

Oxytropis splendens (Showy Locoweed) (p)

Panicum virgatum (Switchgrass) (gr)

Panicum virgatum ‘Prairie Sky’ (Blue Prairie Switchgrass) (gr)

Panicum v. ‘Shenandoah’ (gr)

Paxistima canbyi (Mountain-lover) (s,gc)

Pediocactus simpsonii (Mountain Ball Cactus)

Penstemon alamosensis (p)

Penstemon alpinus (p)

Penstemon ambiguus (Sand Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon angustifolius (Pagoda Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon arenicola (Sand Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon barbatus (Scarlet Bugler) (p)

Penstemon brandegeei (Brandege’s Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon caespitosus (Bluemat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon cardinalis (Cardinal Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon clutei (Sunset Crater Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon crandallii  (Crandall’s Mat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon cyananthus (Wasatch Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon eatonii (Firecracker Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon glaber (Smooth Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon grandiflorus (Shell-leaf Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon grandiflorus ‘Prairie Jewel’ (p)

Penstemon hallii (p)

Penstemon jamesii (James’ Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon lin. ssp coloradoensis ‘Silverton’ (Silverton Mat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon lin. ssp sileri (Siler’s Mat Penstemon (p)

Penstemon linarioides (Mat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon mensarum (Grand Mesa Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon palmeri (Fragrant Beardtongue) (p)

Penstemon pin. ‘Mersea’s Yellow’ (Yellow Pineleaf Penstemon) (p,gc)

Penstemon pin. v. ‘Compactum’ (dwf. Pineleaf Penstemon) (p,gc)

Penstemon pinifolius (Pineleaf Penstemon) (p,gc)

Penstemon pinifolius ‘Sunset Glow’ (Sunset Glow Penstemon) (p,gc)

Penstemon procerus (Smallflowered Penstemon)

Penstemon pseudospectabilis (Desert Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon rostriflorus (Bridges’ Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon rydbergii (Rydberg’s Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon secundiflorus (Sidebells Penstemon, Orchid Beardtongue,) (p)

Penstemon strictus (Rocky Mt. Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon strictus ‘Bandera’ (p)

Penstemon superbus (Coral Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon teucroides (Pine-mat Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon virens (Blue Mist/Foothills Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon virgatus (Wandbloom Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon virgatus ssp.asa-grayi (Wandbloom Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon whippleanus (Dusky Penstemon) (p)

Penstemon xylus (Tushar Mt. Penstemon) (p)

Petalostemon (Dalea) purpureum (Purple Prairie Clover) (p)

Philadelphus lewisii “Cheyenne” (Cheyenne Mockorange) (s)

Philadelphus microphyllus (Littleleaf Mockorange) (s)

Physaria bellii (Bell’s Twinpod) (p)

Physocarpus monogynus (Mountain Ninebark) (s)

Physocarpus monogynus ‘Grey Rock’ (Grey Rock Mountain Ninebark) (s)

Picea pungens (Blue Spruce) (t)

Pinus aristata (Bristlecone Pine) (t)

Pinus cembroides var. edulis (Pinyon Pine) (t)

Pinus cembroides var. edulis, dwf. (Dwarf Pinyon Pine) (s)

Pinus flexilis, dwarf (Limber Pine (s)

Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine) (t)

Polemonium foliosissimum (Towering Jacob’s Ladder) (p)

Polemonium reptans (Creeping Jacob’s Ladder) (p)

Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen) (t)

Prunus americana (Wild Plum) (s/t)

Prunus besseyi (Western Sand Cherry) (s)

Prunus besseyi ‘Boulder Weeping’ (Weeping Western Sandcherry) (s, gc)

Prunus besseyi “Pawnee Buttes” (Dwf. Western Sandcherry) (s)

Prunus virginiana (Western Sandcherry) (s/t)

Psilostrophe tagetina (Paperflower) (monocarpic)

Pulsatilla patens (Pasqueflower) (p)

Purshia stansburyana (syn. Cowania Mexicana) (Cliffrose) (s)

Purshia tridentata (Antelope Bitterbrush) (s)

Quercus gambelii (Gambel Oak) (t)

Quercus gambelii ‘Gila Monster’ (t)

Quercus turbinella (Shrub Live Oak) (t)

Quercus undulata (Wavyleaf Oak) (t)

Ratibida columnifera (Mexican Hat Coneflower)(p)

Ratibida columnifera var. pulcherrima (Red Mexican Hat) (p)

Rhus glabra cismontana (Rocky Mt. Sumac) (s)

Rhus glabra laciniata (Cutleaf Rocky Mt. Sumac) (s)

Rhus trilobata (Three-leaf Sumac, Skunkbush) (s)

Rhus trilobata ‘Autumn Amber’ (Autumn Amber Creeping Three-leaf Sumac) (s, gc)

Ribes aureum (Golden Currant) (s)

Ribes aureum ‘Gwen’s Buffalo’ (Gwen’s Buffalo Currant) (s)

Ribes cereum (Wax Currant) (s)

Ribes odoratum “Crandall” (Crandall Clove Currant) (s)

Robinia neomexicana (New Mexico Locust) (s)

Rosa arkansana (Prairie Rose) (s)

Rosa woodsii (Woods’ Rose) (s)

Rubus deliciosus (Boulder Raspberry) (s)

Rudbeckia hirta (Blackeyed Susan) (p)

Rudbeckia laciniata (p)

Rudbeckia missouriensis (p)

Rudbeckia subtomentosa (Sweet Coneflower) (p)

Rudbeckia tomentosa (short-lived perenn.)

Salix irrorata (Bluestem Willow) (s)

Salvia azurea ssp grandiflora (p)

Salvia dorrii (Purple Sage) (p)

Salvia pitcheri (Pitcher Sage) (p)

Salvia reptans (Sand Sage) (p)

Sambucus racemosa (syn. S. pubens) (Red Elderberry) (s)

Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem) (gr)

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Blaze’ (gr)

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘ Blue Heaven’ (gr)

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Prairie Blues’ (gr)

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘The Blues’ (gr)

Scutellaria resinosa (Prairie Skullcap) (p)

Scutellaria resinosa ‘Smoky Hills’ (Smoky Hills Prairie Skullcap)

Sedum lanceolatum (Stonecrop) (p,gc)

Senecio fendleri (p)

Senecio plattenensis (p)

Senecio spartioides (p)

Shepherdia argentea (Silver Buffaloberry) (s)

Shepherdia argentea ‘Silver Totem’ (Silver Totem Buffaloberry) (s)

Shepherdia argentea x rotundifolia (s)

Silene laciniata ((Fringed Indian Pink) p)

Silene regia (Royal Catchfly) (p)

Sisyrinchium angustifolium (Blue-eyed Grass) (p)

Sisyrinchium montanum (Blue-eyed Grass) (p)

Sisyrinchium campestre (Blue-eyed Grass) (p)

Solidago nana (Dwarf Goldenrod) (p)

Solidago ptarmicoides (Upland White Goldenrod) (p)

Solidago rigida (Stiff Goldenrod) (p)

Solidago speciosa (Showy Goldenrod) (p)

Solidago speciosa ‘Wichita Mountains’ (p)

Solidago petiolaris (Downy Goldenrod) (p)

Sorbus scopulina (Native Mountain Ash) (t)

Sorghastrum nutans (Indian Grass) (gr)

Sorghastrum nutans ‘Pawnee’ (‘Pawnee’ Indian Grass) (gr)

Sphaeralcea fendleri (fender’s Globemallow) (p)

Sphaeralcea coccinea (Cowboy’s Delight) (p)

Sphaeralcea munroana (Orange Globe Mallow) (p)

Sporobolis airoides (Alkali Sacaton) (gr)

Sporobolis wrightii (Giant, Wright’s Sacaton) (gr)

Sporobolus heterolepis (Prairie Dropseed) (gr)

Stanleya pinnata (Prince’s Plume) (p)

Symphoricarpus oreophyllus (Mountain Snowberry) (s)

Symphoricarpus occidentalis (Wolfberry) (s)

Symphoricarpus albus (Western Snowberry) (s)

Symphoricarpus rotundifolius) (see S. oreophyllus) (s)

Talinum calycinum (Rock Rose) (a/p)

Thermopsis divaricarpa (Native Golden Banner) (p)

Thermopsis montana (Mountain Golden Banner) (p)

Townsendia grandiflora (showy Townsendia) ()

Townsendia eximia (Rocky Mt.Townsend Daisy) (bi)

Townsendia hookeri (Hooker’s Townsend Daisy) (p)

Tradescantia occidentalis (Western Spiderwort) (p)

Verbena (Glandularia) bipinnatifida (Prairie Verbena) (p)

Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain) (p)

Verbena stricta (Hoary Vervain) (p)

Verbena (Glandularia) wrightii (Davis Mts. Mock Vervain) (p)

Vitis riparia (Riverbank Grape) (v)

Wyethia (Scabrethia) scabra (Badlands Mule Ears) (p)

Wyethia helianthoides (White Mule Ears) (p)

Yucca baccata (Broadleaf Yucca, Banana Yucca) (s)

Yucca elata (Soap Tree Yucca) (s)

Yucca nana (Dwarf Yucca) (s)

Yucca glauca (Soapweed Yucca) (s)

Yucca harrimaniae (Dollhouse Yucca) (s)

Zinnia grandiflora (Prairie Zinnia) (p)

Zizia aptera (Heart-leaf Golden Alexanders (p)

 

A Natural Home ‘Remedy’ Cabinet

With the disruption and confusion over our national health care system this month, we’re more committed than ever to sharing information on how to create your own home ‘farm-acy’. Watch our class schedule for expanded home herb garden and herbal healing classes during the growing season.

Today we’re sharing local herbalist and educator Mitten Lowe’s list of what she keeps in her home remedy cabinet.

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Hawthorn and Tulsi to ease your Gut

Sometimes we overdo heavier food and drink during the holidays, and our stomach suffers. Mitten Lowe (our friend and frequent teacher at Harlequin’s Gardens) suggests this easy-to-make Hawthorn and Tulsi vinegar and honey mixture (an oxymel).

We had an abundant harvest of Hawthorn berries at the nursery this fall.   If you have room consider adding a Hawthorn tree to your garden this spring.  [Read More]

Fall is for Seeding Meadows!

One of the beautiful alternatives to a standard, water-thirsty, solid green, mowed Kentucky Bluegrass lawn is a naturalistic meadow composed of low-water clumping grasses and wildflowers.

This approach offers plant diversity, an ever-changing, dynamic sequence of colors and textures throughout the seasons, and provides sustenance and habitat for beneficial insects, pollinators, birds and other small critters. If this sounds good to you, now is the time to plan and prepare, and buy grass seed mixes on sale for 15% off! We also have lots of wildflower seeds to add to the grasses – mixes for specific pollinators and situations, as well as individual species.[Read More]

Time to Dig the Dahlias!

We cut, dig and store our dahlia tubers just after the first frost.  Our friends at Arrowhead Dahlias have easy instructions.

Dahlia tubers will not survive if they freeze, so they must be dug in cold climates like ours.

You can divide in spring or fall – it takes practice and patience, but it is well worth the trouble.[Read More]

Fragrant Lavender and Rosemary, to Plant Now – or to Pot Up!

We still have Lavender (Munstead, Buena Vista, Hidcote and Grosso), and if you want to plant them this season, get them this week on sale for 20% off! Any plants left after that will be potted up for next year. Because it is evergreen, newly planted lavender is more sensitive to hard frost than many other hardy perennials, so to give them a chance to establish before very cold weather arrives, plant them NOW. If you garden at an elevation higher than 6,000’, we recommend waiting to plant lavender next spring.

Rosemary ‘Madeline Hill’ is still in stock, and on sale! [Read More]

Plant Now for Your Fall Veggie Garden

Your Fall Vegetable Garden Starts Here!

Hard to believe we’re just over 60 days from the average first frost in Boulder County! It’s the perfect time to get your fall vegetable garden in. We have the seeds, and seedlings you’ll need (seedlings expected to be available this weekend or early next week).

Choose from Botanical Interest seeds like beets, radish, greens, and more. Choose plants with 45 – 50 ‘days to harvest’ to ensure a harvest before the first hard frost. Or, be prepared to extend the season with ‘Ensulate’ row-cover fabric.

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High Spring Walks on the Wild Side

Yesterday we managed to sneak away from work and visit a couple of the fabulous Open Space parks in the foothills. We were too late to see the Pasque Flowers in bloom, but we were surrounded by botanical treasures, nonetheless. A picture is worth a thousand words, so this will be mostly a photo essay of most of the species we encountered. However, you might want to know that in spite of being difficult or impossible to find in nursery production, quite a few of these native treasures have been offered or are currently offered at Harlequin’s Gardens this year.

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Great Selection of Dwarf Native Conifers

We finally got a chance to bring out our excellent and unique selection of Native Conifers! Most of them are special dwarf forms that can easily fit in a home garden. These accent plants can give structure and winter interest to elevate your garden design in all seasons.

What’s special about our dwarf conifers? First of all, most of them are Colorado and regional (CO, UT, NM) native species. This makes them easy to grow in Colorado gardens.

Second, most are selections made by the late, great plantsman Jerry Morris, who devoted his career to searching out the dwarf forms of conifers in our forests.

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Get Big Results in Small Spaces with Container Gardening

We know that not all of customers live in a house with a yard. Many of you live in apartments or condominiums or townhomes and have only a balcony or a very small patio on which to grow anything outdoors. We would love to help you make the most of your outdoor space, even if it’s tiny.

Many vegetables, ornamental annuals, and most culinary herbs can be planted in almost any kind of container as long as there’s sufficient width and depth to accommodate the roots and enough soil mass to hold sufficient water.

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A Penstemon Primer, by Mike Kintgen

Penstemon virgatus

Few genera are as synonymous with Western North America as penstemons or beardtongues. The genus is almost entirely native only to North America with the center of diversity falling west of the 100th meridian. Over 250 species are found in North America with one outlier in
Japan. The outlier is often placed in its own genus. Penstemons are native to every state in the union except Hawaii and almost every Canadian province besides Nunavut.

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A Few Sought-After Native Plants

Right now, we have our biggest selection of highly desirable plants for the season. Some of them are unusual and available in limited quantities. This includes a number of very choice native perennials that are very hard to find and will sell out fast, like:

Scrophularia macrantha (Red Birds In A Tree) – This rare New Mexico wildflower was first brought into cultivation, and given its delightful common name, by the late, great plantsman David Salman, only a couple of decades ago. Subsequently promoted by the Plant Select program, it won the hearts of native plant gardeners and pollinator gardeners, and is a great favorite of hummingbirds. [Read More]

2024 Roses are In!

Fairmount Proserpine, courtesy High Country Roses

This is the week we begin to bring you the Roses! From healthy over-wintered Harlequin’s roses in gallon pots, to beauties in ‘quart’ pots like the ‘Fairmount’ Proserpine pictured here – we have a selection like no other nursery –  with 99% of our roses being own-root and able to take the Colorado weather.

Here’s the ‘big list’ of what we’ll have for you this season – many of them will be available for the May Day Celebration!

Rosa eglanteria (rubiginosa)

Rosa foet. Bicolor (Austrian Copper)

Scarlet meidiland

Sunbeam Veranda

The Gift

Victorian Memory

Westerland

White Dawn, Climbing

White Meidiland

Winner’s Circle

Gourmet Popcorn

Harrison’s ellow

Henry Kelsey

Iceberg (climbing)

Jeanne Lajoie

JoAn’s Pink Perpetual

Lady in Red

Lavender Jewel

Lemon Fizz Kolorscape

Mandarin Sunblaze

Millie Walters

Mountain Mignonette

Petite Peach

Polka

Red Ribbons

Carefree WonderCelestial Night

Champlain

Cinco de Mayo

Complicata

Cream eranda

Denvers Dream

Desiree Parmentier

Dortmund

Ebb Tide

Emily Carr

Fairmount Proserpine

Fire Meidiland

Firecracker Kolorscape

Flamingo Kolorscape

Fred Loads

Golden Opportunity

Adelaide Hoodless

AUSblush

AUSbord

AUScat

AUScot

AUSlot

AUSmary

AUSmound – Lilian Austin

AUSpeet

Autumn Sunblaze

Awakening

Ridal Sunblaze

Brilliant Veranda

Burgundy Iceberg

Canyon Road

Carefree Delight

Carefree Spirit

 

Water-Wise Trees and Shrubs for Sunny Locations

XERISCAPE   TREES AND SHRUBS  for  SUN

Harlequin’s Gardens    303-939-9403  www.harlequinsgardens.com

 

Note: plants listed in bold are native to our region

TREES

Acer ginnala / Amur maple

Acer ginnala ‘Compacta’ / Dwf. Amur Maple

Acer grandidentatum / Bigtooth Maple

Acer negundo / Boxelder

Acer negundo ‘Sensation’ / ‘Sensation’ Boxelder, male selection

Acer tataricum ‘Hot Wings’ / Hot Wings Tatarian Maple

Aesculus glabra / Ohio Buckeye

Amelanchier utahensis / Utah Serviceberry

Catalpa speciosa / Western Catalpa

Celtis occidentalis / Western Hackberry

Celtis reticulata / Netleaf Hackberry

Crataegus ambigua / Russian Hawthorn

Crataegus crus-galli / Cockspur Hawthorn

Crataegus mollis / Downy Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna / Singleseed Hawthorn

Crataegus phaenopyrum / Washington Hawthorn

Cupressus arizonica / Arizona Cypress

Gleditsia triacanthos inermis / Honeylocust

Gymnocladus dioica / Kentucky Coffeetree

Juniperus monosperma / One-seed Juniper

Juniperus scopulorum & selections / Rocky Mt. Juniper

Koelreuteria paniculata / Goldenrain Tree

Malus species / Flowering Crabapple selections

Morus alba / White Mulberry

Pinus aristata / Bristlecone Pine

Pinus cembroides edulis / Pinyon Pine

Pinus contorta v. latifolia / Lodgepole Pine

Pinus flexilis / Limber Pine

Pinus ponderosa / Ponderosa Pine

Prunus americana / American Wild Plum

Prunus padus / Mayday Tree, Bird Cherry

Prunus virginiana / Native Chokecherry

Prunus virginiana ‘Shubert’ / Canada Red Chokecherry

Prunus x virginiana ‘Sucker Punch’ / Non-suckering Chokecherry

Pseudotsuga menziesii v. glauca / Rocky Mt. Douglas Fir

Ptelea trifoliata / Wafer Ash, Hop Tree

Pyrus ussuriensis / Ussurian Pear

Quercus bicolor / Swamp White Oak

Quercus gambelii / Gambel Oak

Quercus macrocarpa / Bur Oak

Quercus muehlenbergii / Chinkapin Oak

Quercus undulata / Rocky Mt. Scrub Oak

Robinia neomexicana / New Mexico Locust

SHRUBS

Agave parryi ssp. neomexicana

Amelanchier alnifolia / Saskatoon Serviceberry

Amelanchier aln. ‘Regent’ / Regent Serviceberry

Amelanchier canadensis / Shadblow Serviceberry

Amelanchier laevis / Allegheny Serviceberry

Amorpha canescens / Great Plains Leadplant

Amorpha nana / Dwarf Leadplant

Artemisia cana / Silver Sagebrush

Artemisia filifolia / Sand Sagebrush

Artemisia tridentata / Tall Western Sagebrush

Artemisia versicolor (canescens) / Seafoam Sage

Atriplex canescens / Four Wing Saltbush

Atriplex confertifolia / Spiny Saltbush

Buddleia alternifolia ‘Argentea” / Silver Butterfly Bush

Buddleia dav. nanhoensis cultivars / Compact Butterfly Bush

Buddleia davidii cultivars / Butterfly Bush

Caragana arborescens / Siberian Peashrub

Caragana pygmaea / Pygmy Peashrub

Caryopteris x clandonensis cultivars / Blue Mist Spirea

Ceanothus fendleri / Mountain Lilac

Ceratoides lantana / Winterfat

Cercocarpus brevifolius / Little-flowered Mt. Mahogany

Cercocarpus intricatus / Littleleaf Mountain Mahogany

Cercocarpus ledifolius / Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany

Cercocarpus montanus / Common Mountain Mahogany

Chamaebatieria millefolium / Fernbush

Chrysothamnus n. ssp. graveolens / Tall Grn. Rabbitbrush

Chrysothamnus naus. ssp. albicaulis / Tall Blue Rabbitbrush

Chrysothamnus naus. ssp. nauseosus / Dwf. Blue Rabbitbrush

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus / Dwf. Grn. Rabbitbrush

Cotinus coggygria / Smoke Tree

Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’ / Royal Purple Smoke Tree

Cotinus x ‘Grace / ‘Grace’ Smoketree

Cotoneaster divaricatus / Spreading Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster lucidus / Peking Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster multiflora / Big-flowered Cotoneaster

Cowania mexicana (Purshia stansburyana)  / Cliffrose

Cytissus purgans ‘Spanish Gold’ / Andora Broom

Cytissus scoparius ‘Moonlight’ / Moonlight Broom

Ephedra americana / American Ephedra

Ephedra viridis / Mormon Tea

Fallugia paradoxa / Apache Plume

Forestiera neomexicana / New Mexico Privet

Genista lydia / Lydian Broom, Dwarf Broom

Genista tinctoria / Woadwaxen

Hesperaloe parviflora / Red Yucca

Hippophae rhamnoides / Sea Buckthorn

Holodiscus dumosus / Rock Spirea

Ligustrum vulgare ‘Cheyenne’ / ‘Cheyenne’ Privet

Ligustrum vulgare ‘Lodense’ / Lodense Privet

Lonicera k. v. floribunda ‘Blue Velvet’ / Blue Velvet Honeysuckle

Lonicera syringantha v. wolfii / Tiny Trumpet Honeysuckle

Lonicera tatarica selections / Shrub Honeysuckle

Mahonia aqu. Compactum / Compact Oregon Grapeholly

Mahonia aquifolium / Oregon Grapeholly

Mahonia fremontii / Fremont’s Mahonia

Mahonia haematocarpa / Desert Holly

Opuntia species / Cholla Cactus

Perovskia atriplicifolia / Russian Sage

Philadelphus lewisii / Lewis Mockorange

Physocarpus opulifolius cultivars / Ninebark

Juniperus communus/Common Juniper selections

Prunus besseyi / Western Sandcherry

Prunus besseyi ‘Pawnee Buttes’ / Pawnee Buttes Sandcherry

Prunus besseyi ‘Boulder Weeping’ / Boulder Weeping Sandcherry

Prunus tenella / Dwarf Russian Almond

Purshia tridentata / Antelope Bitterbrush

Pyracantha coccinea / Firethorn

Rhamnus smithii / Smith’s Buckthorn

Rhus aromatica / Fragrant Sumac

Rhus glabra / Smooth Sumac

Rhus glabra v. cismontana / Rocky Mt. Sumac

Rhus trilobata / Threeleaf Sumac

Rhus typhina / Staghorn Sumac

Rhus typhina laciniata / Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac

Ribes aureum / Native Golden Currant

Ribes cereum / Wax Currant

Ribes odoratum / Golden Currant

Robinia neomexicana / New Mexico Locust

Rosa ‘Alba Maxima’

Rosa ‘Alba semi-plena’

Rosa ‘Alba Suaveolens’

Rosa ‘Felicite Parmentier’

Rosa ‘Fruhlingsgold’

Rosa ‘Golden Wings’

Rosa ‘Harison’s Yellow

Rosa ‘Henry Kelsey’

Rosa ‘John Cabot’

Rosa ‘John Davis’

Rosa ‘Konigen von Danemark’

Rosa ‘Lawrence Johnston’

Rosa ‘Maiden’s Blush’

Rosa “Banshee”

Rosa arvensis

Rosa ‘Complicata’

Rosa eglanteria / Sweetbriar

Rosa foet. Persiana / Persian Yellow Rose

Rosa foetida bicolor / Austrian Copper Rose

Rosa glauca (rubrifolia) / Redleaf Rose

Rosa hugonis / Father Hugo’s Rose

Rosa woodsii / Wood’s Rose

Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Arp’ / Arp Rosemary

Shepherdia argentea / Silver Buffaloberry

Robinia neomexicana / New Mexico Locust

Spiraea ‘Cheyenne Snowmound’

Spiraea jap. ‘Goldflame’ / Goldflame Spirea

Syringa patula ‘Miss Kim’ / Miss Kim Dwf. Korean Lilac

Syringa prestoniae cultivars / Canadian Lilacs

Syringa vulgaris cultivars / Common Lilacs

Yucca baccata / Banana Yucca

Yucca filamentosa / Adam’s Needle

Yucca glauca / Native Soapweed, Narrowleaf Yucca

Yucca harrimanii / Harriman’s Dwf. Yucca

Water-Wise Perennials and Biennials for Sun

XERISCAPE   PERENNIALS & BIENNIALS  for  SUN

Harlequin’s Gardens    303-939-9403  www.harlequinsgardens.com

 

Note: plants listed in bold are native to our region

Acantholimon (hohenackeri, glumaceum, etc.)

Achillea ageratifolia

Achillea filipendula ‘Moonshine’

Achillea lanulosa

Achillea millefolium ‘Cerise Queen’

Achillea millefolium ‘Paprika’

Achillea serbica

Aethionema grandiflora

Agastache aurantiaca ‘Coronado’

Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’

Agastache cana

 Agastache foeniculum

Agastache neomexicana

Agastache rupestris

Agastache urticifolia

Agastache x ‘Ava’

Agave parryi selections

Alcea rosea

Alcea rugosa

Allium altaicum

Allium cernuum

Allium flavum

Allium geyeri

Allium ‘Millenium’

Allium senescens

Allium senescens ‘Glaucum’

Allium tuberosum

Alyssum oxycarpum

Anacyclus depressus

Anchusa azurea

Antennaria ‘McClintock’

Antennaria parviflora

Antennaria rosea

Argemone hispida

Argemone polyanthemos

Artemisia frigida

Artemisia ludoviciana

Artemisia ludoviciana‘Powis Castle’

Artemisia ‘Silver Frost’

Artemisia ludoviciana ‘Valerie Finnis’

Artemisia stelleriana ‘Silver Brocade’

Artemisia ’Leprechaun’

Asclepias tuberosa

Asphodeline demascena

Asphodelus albus

Aster ericoides

Aster porteri

Aster (Symphiotrichon) laevis

Aster (Symphiotrichon) sericeus

Astragalus sps.

Aurinia saxatilis

Baptisia australis

Baptisia minor

Berlandiera lyrata

Betonica foliosa

Cacti, various hardy

Callirhoe involucrata

Calylophus hartwegii

Calylophus serrulatus

Calylophus serrulatus ‘Prairie Lode’

Catananche caerulea

Centranthus ruber

Cerastium candidissimum

Cerastium tomentosum

Clematis scottii

Coreopsis lanceolata

Coreopsis lanceoplata ‘Sterntaler’ 

Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’

Coreopsis verticillata ‘Zagreb’

Crambe cordifolia

Crambe maritima

Dalea (Petalostemon) purpureum                      

Delosperma ‘John Proffitt’(‘Table Mountain’)

Delosperma ‘Kelaidis’ (Mesa Verde)

Delosperma cooperi

Delopserma dyeri

Delosperma ‘Firespinner’

Delosperma ‘Granita Orange’

Delosperma ‘Granita Raspberry’

Delosperma ‘Lavender Ice’

Delosperma ‘Red Mountain Flame’

Delosperma nubigenum

Dianthus barbatus

Dianthus ‘Blue Hill’

Dianthus deltoides varieties

Dianthus gratianapolitanus

Dianthus gratianapolitanus varieties

Dianthus nardiformus

Dianthus petraeus noeanus

Dianthus ‘Tuscan Honeymoon’

Dianthus ‘Tiny Rubies’

Dictamnus albus purpureus

Dracocephalum ruyschianum

Ephedra minuta

Erigeron compositus

Erigeron linearis

Erigeron speciosus

Erigeron caespitosa

Eriogonum jamesii

Eriogonum ovalifolium

Eriogonum umbellatum

Eriogonum umb. v ‘Kannah Creek’

Eriogonum umb. v majus

Eriogonum umb. v porteri

Erodium chrysanthum

Erodium manescavii

Erodium petraeum hybrids

Euphorbia polychroma

Foeniculum vulgare

Foeniculum vulgare ‘Bronze’

Gaillardia aristata

Gaillardia aristata ‘Meriwether’

Gaillardia x grandiflora ‘Goblin’

Gaillardia x grandiflora ‘Burgundy’

Gaura lindheimeri

Gaura lindheimeri ‘Summer Breeze’

Geranium sanguineum

Glaucium acutidentatum

Globularia cordifolia

Goniolimon tataricum

Gutierrezia sarothrae

Gypsophila paniculata

Gypsophila repens

Helianthemum nummularium varieties

Herniaria glabra

Heterotheca pumila

Heterotheca ‘Gold Hill’

Hymenoxys (tetraneuris)acaulis

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris)argenteus

Hymenoxys (Tetraneuris)scaposa

Iberis sempervirens

Iberis sempervirens ‘Little Gem’

Ipomopsis (Gilia) aggregate

Ipomopsis rubra

Iris (tall, medium and miniature) Bearded

Iris pallida ‘Variegata’

Lavandula ‘Provence’

Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’

Lavandula angustifolia ‘Munstead Strain’

Liatris punctata

Limonium latifolium

Limonium gmellinii

Linum flavum compactum

Linum lewisii

Linum narbonense

Linum perenne

Lithospermum multiflorum

Lychnis chalcedonica

Lychnis coronaria

Malva alcea fastigiata

Malva sylvestris mauritania

Marrubium globosum

Marrubium rotundifolium

Melampodium leucanthum

Mentzelia decapetala

Mentzelia nuda

Mirabilis multiflora

Nepeta x  faassenii

Nepeta x f. ‘Six Hills Giant’

Nepeta x f. ‘Walker’s Low’

Nepeta ‘Little Trudy’

Nolina microcarpa

Oenothera howardii

Oenothera berlandieri ‘Siskyou’

Oenothera caespitosa

Oenothera caespitosa ‘Marginata’

Oenothera fremontii

Oenothera fremontii ‘Shimmer’

Oenothera macrocarpa

Oenothera m. incana ‘Comanche Campfire’

Oenothera fremontii

Oenothera macro. incana ‘Silver  Blade’

Oenothera pallida

Oxytropis lambertii

 Oxytropis sericea

Oxytropis splendens

Papaver orientale varieties

Papaver pilosum

Papaver triniifolium (biennial)

Penstemon ambiguus

Penstemon arenicola

Penstemon auriberbis

Penstemon barbatus

Penstemon brandegei

Penstemon cardinalis

Penstemon caespitosus

Penstemon clutei

Penstemon crandallii

Penstemon cyananthus

Penstemon eatonii

Penstemon grandifloras

Penstemon hallii

Penstemon linarioides

Penstemon linarioides coloradoensis

Penstemon mensarum

Penstemon x mexicale hybrids

Penstemon palmeri

Penstemon pinifolius and selections

Penstemon pinifolius compactus

Penstemon pseudospectabilis

Penstemon richardsonii

Penstemon rostriflorus

Penstemon secundiflorus

Penstemon strictus

Penstemon strictus ‘Bandera’

Penstemon superbus

Penstemon teucroides

Penstemon virens

Penstemon virgatus

Penstemon xylus (tusharensis)

Perovskia atriplicifolia

Petalostemon (Dalea) purpurea

Phlomis russeliana

Physaria bellii

Physostegia virginiana ‘Summer Snow’

Platycodon grandiflorus

Potentilla neumanniana ‘nana’

Ratibida columnifera

Ratibida column. pulchella

Ratibida pinnata

Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Arp’

Rosmarinus off. ‘Madeline Hill’

Rosularia sp.

Rudbeckia hirta

Rudbeckia triloba

Rudbeckia maxima

Rudbeckia missouriensis

Rudbeckia fulgida’Goldsturm’

Ruellia humilis

Ruta graveolens

Salvia argentea

Salvia azurea grandiflora (S. pitcheri)

Salvia nemorosa ‘Blue Queen’

Salvia nemorosa ‘May Night’

Salvia nemorosa ‘Rose Queen’

Salvia officinalis

Salvia officinalis ‘Purpureus’

Salvia officinalis ‘nana’

Salvia sclarea

Salvia transylvanica

Santolina chamaecyparissus’

Saponaria lempergii ‘Max Frei’

Saponaria ocymoides

Satureja montana

Satureja montana ssp illyrica

Scabiosa caucasica

Scabiosa lucida

Scutellaria resinosa

Scrophularia macrantha

Sedum ‘Autumn Fire’

Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’

Sedum ‘Matrona’

Sedum ‘Lidakense’

Sedum ‘Purple Emperor’

Sedum ‘Vera Jameson’

Sedum album

Sedum hybridum

Sedum lanceolatum

Sedum sexangulare

Sedum spurium varieties

Sedum tatarowinii

Sempervivum sps.

Sphaeralcea fendleri

Sphaeralcea coccinea

Sphaeralcea munroana

Stachys byzantine ‘Helene Von Stein’

Stachys byzantine ‘Silver Carpet’

Stanleya pinnata

Talinum calycinum

Tanacetum densum ‘Amani’

Tanacetum niveum

Teucrium chamaedys

Teucrium cossonii

Teucrium ‘Harlequin’s Silver’

Teucrium rotundifolium

Thelesperma filifolia

Thermopsis lupinoides

Thymus ‘Back Wall’

Thymus ‘Clear Gold’

Thymus ‘Elfin’

Thymus ‘Minus’

Thymus ‘Reiter’

Thymus ‘Pink Chintz’

Thymus ‘Ohme Garden’

Thymus baeticus

Thymus citriodorus ‘Argentea’

Thymus pseudolanguinosus

Thymus ‘Magic Carpet’

Thymus nieceffii

Thymus praecox ‘Albiflorus’

Thymus praecox ‘Coccineus’

Thymus praecox ‘Pink Chintz’

Thymus praecox “Minus’

Thymus praecox pseudolanguinosus

Thymus serphyllum varieties

Townsendia hookeri

Tradescantia occidentalis

Verbascum bombyciferum

Verbascum olympica

Verbascum wiedemannianum

Verbena bipinnatifida

Verbena wrightii

Veronica allionii

Veronica ‘Crystal Rivers’

Veronica cuneifolia

Veronica liwanensis

Veronica macrostachya

Veronica oltensis

Veronica pectinata

Veronica prostrata

Veronica tauricola

Viola cornuta

Zauschneria garrettii ‘Orange Carpet’

Zauschneria californica ‘Etteri’

Zinnia grandiflora 

Note:  Plants listed in bold type are native to our region.

 

 

2024 Harlequin’s Gardens’ Roses

 

 

2024 Rose Availability List 

  • Austrian Copper

    Above and Beyond

  • Austrian Copper – (f. bicolor)
  • Autumn Damask
  • Autumn Sunblaze
  • Banshee
  • Bridal Sunblaze
  • Brilliant Veranda
  • Burgundy Ice
  • Campfire
  • Carefree Delight
  • Carefree Spirit
  • Carefree Wonder
  • Celestial Night
  • Champlain
  • Charles Darwin
  • Coral Cove

  • Darlow’s Enigma

    Cream Veranda

  • Darlow’s Enigma
  • Denver’s Dream
  • Dortmond
  • Double Knockout
  • Earth Angel
  • Emily Carr
  • Fairmount Proserpine
  • Felix Leclerc
  • Fire Meidiland
  • Firecracker Kolorscape

  • Golden Wings

    Fred’s Loads

  • Gertrude Jekyll
  • The Gift
  • Golden Opportunity
  • Golden Wings
  • Gourmet Popcorn
  • Henry Kelsey
  • Heritage
  • Hope for Humanity
  • Iceberg
  • Jeanne Lajoie
  • JoAn’s Pink Perpetual 
  • John Davis
  • Lady In Red
  • Laguna
  • Lemon Fizz Kolorscape

  • Morden Sunrise

    Lilian Austin

  • Mandarin Sunblaze
  • Mary Rose
  • Millie Walters
  • Morden Sunrise
  • Mountain Mignonette
  • Petite Peach
  • Quadra
  • Red Ribbons
  • Robusta
  • Scarlet Meidiland
  • Sophy’s Rose
  • Sunbeam Veranda
  • Sweetbriar Rose
  • Sweet Chariot

  • Victorian Memory

    Tess of the d’Urbervilles

  • Valentine’s Day
  • Victorian Memory
  • White Meidiland
  • William Baffin
  • Winchester Cathedral
  • Winner’s Circle
  • Zephirine Drouhin

 

Tomato Starts – 2025

HARLEQUIN’S GARDENS 2025 TOMATO STARTS

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Anasazi
Big Rainbow
Black Ethiopian
Black from Tula
Black Krim
Black Sea Man
Burrell’s Special
California Sungold – NEW!
Carmello
Cherokee Purple
Chianti Rose
Chocolate Cherry
Chocolate Stripes
Coyote Currant
Cour de Bue
Carbon
Cosmonaut Volkov
Green Zebra
Glacier
Gold Medal
Indigo Cherry Drops
Isis Candy cherry
Juane Flamme
Koralik
Maglia Rosa
Matt’s Wild Cherry
Martino’s Roma
Magic Bullet
Market Miracle
Mountain Delight
Native Sun
Orange King
Paul Robeson
Pink Bumblebee
Pink Brandywine (Sudduth)
Pink Berkeley Tie-Die
Pinocchio
Pruden’s Purple
Rutger’s Indeterminate
San Marzano
Sasha’s Altai
Sungold
Super Souix
Tasmanian Chocolate
Taxi
Tidy Treats
Thessaloniki
Tommy Toe
Yellow Pear – Beam’s
Dwarf – Vilma (a 2024 Customer Trial Selection)
Dwarf – Awesome
Dwarf – Hundreds and Thousands (a 2024 Customer Trial Selection)
Siberian
Aurora Indeterminate
Azoychka
Italian Roma
Moskvitch
Northern Light
Siberian
Sweetie

Custom Grass Seed Mixes!

Sorghastrum nutans

Instead of maintaining a Kentucky Bluegrass lawn, why not try an area of Natural Meadow, combining well-adapted grasses, wildflowers and perhaps some shrubs too. Such a Meadow can conserve water and fertilizers and should not require pesticides or herbicides. Like all gardens, the first 2-3 years will require more weeding, then less after plants grow together. It can be beautiful, provide habitat for birds, butterflies and beneficial insects, while taking water into the ground, preventing erosion and capturing carbon. [Read More]

POTATO, ONION & ASPARAGUS STARTS – 2025 Newsletter

Purple Majesty when cooked

POTATOES

  • AMA ROSSA – NEW! – 85 – 95 days. Midseason. Rosy-red fingerling with rich-colored skin and flesh and keeps its color even after cooking. High in antioxidants. Nutty-tasting. Stem or air-fry for pink chips!
  • HARVEST MOON -85-100 days. Round tuber with purple skin and deep yellow flesh. Firm texture after cooking, with a nutty taste. Good for roasting, baking, soups, and chips. Stores excellently.
  • NICOLA – 85 – 105 days. Early. Thin skinned, yellow inside and out.
  • PURPLE MAJESTY  – Uniform, high-yield, deep purple skin and flesh, very high in anthocyanins (high-potency antioxidant) Bred in & for Colorado.
  • SANGRE – 80-90 days. Midseason. Beautiful red skinned variety with shallow eyes and medium-sized oblong tubers. Originally released by Colorado State University in 1982, Sangre ranks high in taste tests with creamy white flesh that is especially delicious boiled or baked. Stores well. 
  • YUKON GOLD- 85 – 100 days. Early Midseason. Smooth, thin, yellow skin and flesh. Buttery flavored, creamy texture, slightly sweet. These popular potatoes are waxy and firm, great for stews, soups, gratins, and mashed or roast potatoes.

Heirloom Tohono O’odham Multiplier Onion plants

ONIONS – 

  • PATTERSON – (Yellow, storage) plants, 104 days, ~30 per half-bundle or ~60 per bundle
  • REDWING – (red, storage) plants, 115 days, ~30 per half-bundle or ~60 per bundle
  • WALLA WALLA – (yellow, sweet) plants, ~30 per half-bundle or ~60 per bundle
  • In pots – Ailsa Craig, Red Long of Tropea, Rosa di Milano, Walla Walla, Red Marble cipollini, Gold Coin cipollini

ALSO, Leeks and Shallots.

ASPARAGUS

JERSEY KNIGHT  (roots, 5 per bundle)

All male hybrid with big spears. Does not make seed, so doesn’t become weedy.  Best selection for dense clay soils.  Very productive and disease resistant.  Hardy to Zone 2.

PURPLE PASSION  (roots, 5 per bundle)

Beautiful deep burgundy-colored spears with high sugar content, delicious, tender, less fibrous, great in raw salads.

This Week’s Featured Plants

Viola corsica, courtesy D. Johnson

You’ll be delighted with this week’s featured plants – water-wise, regionally-adapted and beautiful.

Choose among Corsican Violets (pictured), Tansy, Rosemary, native Prairie Winecups, and more![Read More]

2024 Vegetable Starts

HARLEQUIN’S GARDENS 2024 TOMATO STARTS

“Anasazi”
Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Beam’s Yellow Pear
Better Boy hyb.
Big Rainbow
Black from Tula
Black Krim
Brown Sugar
Black Sea Man
Blush
Burrell’s Special
Bush Early Girl
Carbon
Carmello hyb.
Cascade Village Blue
Cherokee Purple
Chianti Rose
Chocolate Cherry
Cosmonaut Volkov
Early Girl Hyb.
Flaming Burst
Floradade
Garden Peach
Glacier
Gold Medal
Gold Nugget
Green Zebra
Isis Candy cherry
Japanese Blk Trifele/Black Truffle
Jaune Flamme
Juliet hyb
Large Red Cherry
Maglia Rosa
Martino’s Roma
Matt’s Wild Cherry
Mexico Midget
Moskvitch
Mountain Delight Hyb
Native Sun
Orange King
Paul Robeson
Peacevine cherry
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye
Pink Brandywine, Sudduth Strain
Pink Bumblebee
Principe Borghese
Pruden’s Purple
Red Robin
San Marzano  II
Sasha’s Altai
Striped German
Stupice
Sun Gold hyb
Sunrise Sauce
Super Sioux
SuperSweet 100  hyb
Sweetie
Tasmanian Chocolate
Taxi
Thessaloniki
Tidy Treats hyb

HARLEQUIN’S GARDENS  2024  PEPPER STARTS

SPICY PEPPERS

Anaheim
Adaptive Early Thai
Aji Cristal
Ancho Poblano ‘Bastan F1’
Big Jim Anaheim
Chimayo
Czech Black OG
Early Jalapeno
Fish
Hot Red Cherry
Hungarian Hot Wax
Jalapeno TAM (milder)
Korean
Lemon Spice Jalapeno
Long Red Narrow Cayenne
Caribbean Red Habanero
NuMex 6-4 (milder Anaheim)
NuMex Sandia
Pasilla Bajio
Mosco (Pueblo) Mirasol
Purple Tiger
Santa Fe Grande
Serrano Tampiqueno
SWEET and MILD PEPPERS

 

Aurora
Biquinho, red
Italian Pepperoncini
Lanterna Piccante
Shishito
Aconcagua
Buran
California Wonder
Cambuci
Cubanelle
Golden Treasure
Gypsy Queens
Habanada
Healthy
Jimmy Nardello’s
King of the North
Carmen F-1
Marconi Red
Mini Belle
Purple Beauty
Sheepnose Pimento
Sweet Chocolate
Sweet Pickle
Sweet Red Cherry
Yankee Bell

Onions on the Way!

We just received word that our onion plants were shipped today and should arrive and be ready for sale by Friday or Saturday! We’ll be offering onion plants in bundles of approximately 60 to 70 plants, and half-bundles of approximately 30-35 plants.

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Save the Date – Opening Day March 1st!

Helleborus niger

February is always an exciting time for me. The snow is melting in my south-facing front yard, revealing the first few spring blooms and rekindling my passion for gardening. In my garden, the Christmas Rose (Helleborus niger) and Crocus ‘Firefly’ and our tiny but hardy and tough native treasure Townsendia hookeri are the earliest flowers this year. And at the warmest part of the day, I’ve also seen a few honeybees visiting them. They are the unmistakable, irrepressible signs of spring!

In just a couple of weeks, there will be a lot more flowers blooming , and Harlequin’s Gardens will be open for the 2024 season! We’ll be opening through March in Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays beginning on Friday, March 1st. Classes, soil products, seeds, seed-starting supplies, tools and houseplants await you![Read More]

Strawberry Fields Forever!

We’re pleased to bring you a wonderful selection of Colorado-adapted strawberries with real strawberry flavor! You can choose Ogallala, Earliglow, Ft. Laramie, and Yellow Wonder Alpine. March is the perfect time to prepare your bed for planting these delicious fruits that will come back for several years. [Read More]

The Path to your Summer Garden Begins Here

With some deeply chilling temperatures on the near horizon, gardeners can gain a little comfort by fast-forwarding to spring in our minds as we plan for our 2024 gardens. The predictable and unpredictable consequences of climate change call upon us to observe our gardens more closely, revise our expectations of our gardens, broaden our vision of what makes a garden, and make our gardens more resilient and less dependent on uncertain resources.

We have been absorbed in seed catalogs; the past couple of nights my bedtime companion has been has the always-fascinating J.L.Hudson Seed Catalog, which is much more interesting in print than it is online. Our seed orders have been arriving and our propagators have been cleaning our precious wild-collected seeds, applying treatments to break dormancy (mostly hot water, physical scarification, and refrigeration), and making new plants from old by division and cuttings.[Read More]

Late Fall Musings

Agave seed stalk

The day before Thanksgiving in the Reshetnik-Brawer home was largely spent cleaning the house, but we also decided it was time to cut down the towering inflorescence of our Century Plant (Agave utahensis x parryi v. couesii). I held the 3”- thick stalk while Mikl cut through it with his folding hand-saw (a great tool!), then we laid it down on a ground-cloth to catch the copious seeds that fell out of the hundreds of pods. To me it felt as if we had just felled a large and noble animal or tree, and there were several quiet minutes of awe and reverence. Now that it was horizontal, we were able to get an accurate measurement of the bloom stalk’s height, 14.5 feet, and I counted 34 branches! We will be planting the hundreds (or thousands?) of seeds to produce new plants for you.

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Our 32nd Gardening Season Begins March 1st!

As I write, the ground and rooftops are blanketed in snow, and the sun is streaming in the windows. Gotta love the Colorado winter! In less than a month, we’ll be open for our 32nd year as a nursery and garden center, and we are quite excited!

I don’t think we’ve ever had an easy year, but ‘easy’ isn’t an option in this business. So many aspects of running a nursery have never been predictable, and we’re always relating with thousands of details and challenges.

BUT we have a great crew and there are many things you can always count on finding when you visit Harlequin’s Gardens, and we hope you will appreciate the value you receive when you shop at our big little nursery.

For 31 years, we have always been committed to non-aggression, health and environmental stewardship in horticulture and all other spheres of Life. And this commitment will always continue!

We’ll never use toxic pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizers.

We are the best source for Colorado and regional Native Plants on the Front Range.

We have and will always specialize in Water-Thrifty plants, Native and Colorado-adapted plants and Pollinator-Supporting plants.

We are always broadening our plant offerings, often bringing into cultivation wonderful local wild plants that were previously unavailable in commerce. (*see below for examples)

Our staff, e-newsletters, classes, and hand-outs offer empowering, cutting-edge organic and environmental gardening advice and education gained from our 31 years of research and experience.

Our customer service team is exceptionally knowledgeable, helpful and accessible.

We grow most of our own plants and supplement with plants from other local and regional growers that never use neonicotinoids.

We grow our plants in our own carefully formulated potting soils that grow healthier, stronger, more resilient plants that will establish successfully into your garden.

Our pest management products are always non-toxic, child-safe and pollinator safe.

We compost and make our own powerful Compost Tea.

We aim to be a zero-waste business: we bag compost and mulches in returnable plastic bags that we reuse to reduce plastic in the environment. We also reuse nursery pots, and sell our compost tea in returnable/reusable jugs.

We offer superior, CO-specific resources and advice for supporting bees, butterflies, birds and other pollinators and beneficial insects.

We test and evaluate our soil products (composts, organic fertilizers, mulches and other amendments), and most of them are sourced locally.

We recycle and use recycled materials for our building projects.

Our greenhouses don’t use fossil fuels; our heat and energy come mostly from the Sun, with a little electricity from renewables. And this year we are installing a heat-pump system for our store!

We are located in unincorporated Boulder County, where sales taxes are only about half the rate of those in Front Range cities.

We support local growers, artists, artisans and musicians as well as non-profit environmental efforts.

We connect our customers with events and other educational and activist opportunities related to environmental, agricultural and horticultural issues.

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Wild Plants we are Propagating in 2024.  We have our fingers crossed that good germination and growth on the unique native plants described below will allow us to bring them to you this season.

The plants we offer will contribute to a beautiful, thriving garden that will be a joy to behold, but they can also provide so much more than a pretty picture to look at. The ecosystem services that our plants provide add much more value to your gardens.

Celtis reticulata, courtesy Oregon State University

Celtis reticulata, Netleaf Hackberry
You may be familiar with the larger Celtis occidentalis or Western Hackberry, which makes an excellent long-lived, water-wise deciduous shade tree. Netleaf Hackberry is substantially smaller, fairly slow-growing to 15’ to 25’ with a spreading canopy, interesting sculpted bark, an attractive twisting branch pattern, rough green leaves and reddish brown or purple berries. The leaves support the caterpillars of Mourning Cloak and Hackberry Emperor butterflies and a number of moths, which in turn, along with the sweet berries, attract and feed many birds. In Colorado, Netleaf Hackberry occurs in the wild in the Front Range foothills and on the western edge of the plains. It is rarely available in nurseries. We’ve seen some handsome specimens growing around Lyons. Cold hardy and highly adaptable to many soils, moisture levels and exposures, it can be grown as a small to medium-sized tree that will not require any supplemental watering after initial establishment.

Mertensia lanceolata

Mertensia lanceolata, Prairie Bluebell, Languid Lady
Dropping way down in scale, we are hoping for good germination on this lovely local spring wildflower that inhabits a wide range of Rocky Mountain habitats and elevations, from the plains to alpine habitats, in dry partial shade under deciduous shrubs and trees, on north-facing slopes, near rock outcroppings and in sunny meadows. In mid to late spring (May and June in Boulder) the delicate bell-shaped flowers nod from slender stems, opening from plum-colored buds and maturing to blue. The leaves are blue-green due to a waxy coating, with a prominent center vein. Prairie Bluebells are in the Borage family, prized for its many striking blue-flowered constituents. The plants can produce sizeable colonies, several feet across and can range from 6 ” to 14” tall. Prairie Bluebell goes dormant by early summer, dying back to its substantial roots.

Argemone hispida, courtesy Mik Kintgen

Argemone hispida, Rough Prickly Poppy
This is one of my favorite local wildflowers. It took me awhile to notice that it was different from the Prickly Poppies I had met before (Argemone polyanthemos), being more stout and shrubby, with grey-green foliage and much more dense, numerous and slender golden prickles on all parts, from stem to bud to seed-pod. The fabulous silky white flowers are just as big (4” wide) and just as stunning as the more commonly found Argemones, but the plant is more compact, up to perhaps 15” tall where I’ve seen it growing. They both grow in the same habitat, so Rough Prickly Poppy is also happy growing dry and hot, and blooms at the same time – May to August. Found in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, South Dakota and Wyoming.

 

Astragalus utahensis, courtesy James L. Reveal and the LadyBird Johnson Wildflower Center

Astragalus utahensis, Utah Milkvetch
Utah milkvetch is in the legume family (Fabaceae). One finds quite a few plants in this family in the arid west. They are probably making life better for themselves and the plants around them by fixing nitrogen from the air and transferring it to their roots and the soil. Native to Utah and several adjacent states, this very pretty spring-blooming milkvetch is particularly abundant in the Wasatch Mountains. Its typical habitats include rocky hillsides, sagebrush openings, and pinyon-juniper areas. A rock garden, crevice garden, or the front of a Xeriscape garden with excellent drainage will suit it well. The plant is lovely even after bloom, with its wavy silvery pinnate leaves.

 

Yours in support of abundant Life,
Eve Reshetnik Brawner & Mikl Brawner

The Beauty of Winter Gardens

As the year is drawing toward a close and much of the garden and natural landscape is dormant, we can still appreciate the beauty and interest of plants: the silhouetted structure of our leafless trees and shrubs, the textures and colors of their bark, the berries and seedpods ornamenting their branches, and likewise the colors and textures of dry grasses, cattails and sedges. We can also admire the color and form of our evergreen trees and shrubs, and realize how many of our favorite perennial flowering plants and groundcovers provide evergreen (or red, or silver, or purple) foliage through the winter!

The Winter Solstice season is a time for celebrating the return of the light, both literally and figuratively, and as our daylight hours increase in the outer world, we will also try to keep our inner light burning for love, justice, and compassion for all life on earth. It’s a time for generosity, opening hearts, kindness, sharing, and spreading good news. Here are a couple of our suggestions for valuable gifts you can share:
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