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Home | Plants

Plants

Great Selection of Dwarf Native Conifers

June 4, 2024

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

January 26, 2026

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

May 14, 2024

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

May 21, 2024

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!

April 30, 2024

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

April 30, 2024

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

March 20, 2026

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

April 30, 2024

 

 

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

 

Eggplant Starts 2024

March 21, 2024

HARLEQUIN’S GARDENS 2024 EGGPLANT STARTS

Black Beauty
Black Shine
Diamond
Galine
Listada di Gandia
Orient Express
Pingtung Long
Purple Comet
Purple Pickling
Rosa Bianca

for descriptions, click here

Tomato Starts – 2025

April 1, 2025

HARLEQUIN’S GARDENS 2025 TOMATO STARTS

for descriptions, click here

 

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!

March 12, 2024

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

April 1, 2025

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

March 5, 2024

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

March 5, 2024

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!

March 5, 2024

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!

February 13, 2024

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!

March 5, 2024

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

January 9, 2024

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

November 28, 2023

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!

February 5, 2024

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

December 12, 2023

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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Patio Trees

August 22, 2023

Purple Smokebush

MIKL’s ‘MACRO BONSAI’ PATIO TREES FOR YOURSELF!

Every so often, one of the trees or shrubs we’ve grown or received from a grower displays interesting twists, bends, curves or dwarfing that suggest the character of Bonsai specimens, but much bigger. Mikl has been collecting and cultivating these ‘Macro Bonsai’ for quite a few years. We have some available for sale right now.

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Help Fall Plantings Beat the Heat

June 28, 2022

Fall is among the best times to plant perennials. While we may begin to wilt from late summer heat, many plants rise to the occasion and burst into bloom!  As days begin to grow shorter, perennials spend the next few months developing root systems or taproots that delve well below the hot, dry surface soil. Pollinators depend on finding pollen and nectar sources through the entire summer, so it’s important to include late-summer and autumn bloomers in your garden. 

Here are a few suggestions for successful planting.

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Versatile Vines for Colorado Gardens

August 1, 2023

Sweet Autumn Clematis

Vines are very valuable for their versatility, variety and vigor, especially in the vertical plane. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Many of us live in urban environments full of walls and fences, and closely packed homes with narrow side-yards. Those of us in townhomes, condos or apartments have only tiny patio gardens or balconies offering little opportunity for greening our outdoor spaces. Or, we live in new developments built on open farmland without mature trees and shrubs for shade or screening. In all of these situations, vines can quickly provide short-term or long-term solutions to provide privacy or shade, maximize our connection to the earth, block unpleasant views, cover ugly surfaces, or add a vertical dimension to the garden. And some vines can also work as groundcovers in tough situations, like under evergreen trees.

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More About Vines

August 8, 2023

We’ve got a wonderful selection of vines right now! Last week we gave you an overview of vines and how to use them, based on their mechanisms for climbing. This week, let’s get into the details of some individual varieties.

 

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Summer Garden Beet Salad Recipe

July 25, 2023

from Mitten Lowe at Journey to Wellness

I love beets and beet greens for how grounding and nutritious they are – providing folate, dietary fiber, manganese, potassium, iron, antioxidants, phytonutrients, and more! This wonderful garden beet salad is a perfect way to utilize all parts of the beet plus it’s versatile and so incredibly satisfying.

 

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Ready Now

July 25, 2023

Geranium x cantabrigiense

Remember Spring of 2023? Cool, rainy and cloudy? We had many thousands of plants coming along from seed, cuttings and plugs. And under these challenging conditions, some of them took a very long time to reach the point when they became ready for sale. But they’re ready now! And some of our best groundcover plants for dry shade or part sun, Plumbago and hardy Geraniums (Cranesbills) are among them!

 

Here’s a list of some of the great plants, including many native plants (noted with an asterisk), we now have in stock.

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Time to Sow for Fall Harvests

August 1, 2023

The next few weeks are the perfect time to sow arugula, beets, small carrots, lettuce, kale, radish, and more!

You’re looking to sow veggies that will be harvestable before our first big frosts – often in early October.

We’re proud to bring you seeds from Botanical Interests. They say, “Nurturing seeds in the garden slows us down to reconnect to nature and earth, develops bonds in a community, and creates family traditions and memories. We’re so happy to be a part of that!” And we are, too!

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Another Spring Wildflower Ramble

June 6, 2023

Mertensia lanceolata

In spite of cloudy skies and not-so-distant rumblings of thunder, Mikl and I had another opportunity to ramble among the wildflowers last week. This time, we chose the easy Lichen Loop trail at Heil Ranch, just off Lefhand Canyon Road. It’s amazing how long we can take to walk a mere 1.3 miles! Our excuse was the amazingly rich floristic display brought on by the combination of copious rain and wood ash from the Calwood Fire.
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Lovely Lilacs: A Few Recipes

May 23, 2023

Lilac time is a very special and very short sweet time for us here in Colorado.  Here are a few ways to use these flowers for health and well-being, from Mitten Lowe at Journey to Wellness.

We recommend harvesting lilac flowers while they are in full bloom, and making delicious medicine to enjoy through the rest of the year.
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Fruit Trees for Your Yard

August 1, 2023

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is NOW.” While this ancient Chinese proverb still rings true, fruit trees can begin to bear at a pretty young age, bringing satisfaction much sooner than a tree planted for shade or major presence in the landscape. We carry a wide selection of fruit trees proven to thrive and produce here in Colorado and taste great,  and the apples, pears, cherries and plums on the list in the link below are in stock right now so that you can plant your own for years of enjoyment. (We don’t have peaches out at the moment – ask when you come in).

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Beautiful, Bountiful Biennials

May 9, 2023

Digitalis purpurea – photo courtesy First Nature

Does everyone know what a biennial plant is? It’s a plant that spends its first year of life building a substantial root system and a basal rosette of foliage.  In its second year, it will have the resources to support a season of massive blooming and seeding. After having done its job, it dies away, leaving the future of its kind to the new generation of seedlings it has created.[Read More]

Benefits of the Beautiful Dandelion

May 2, 2023

Thinking this cheery yellow-flowered plant is a weed? Think again.

First of all, dandelions provide much needed early-season nutrition for the bees. If that wasn’t enough of a reason to let them into your garden,  every part of this plant is good for you. Since ancient times dandelion has been used as a spring tonic. (That’s right, we’re suggesting eating the weeds!).

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Blooming Without a Care

May 16, 2023

Argemone polyanthemos

by Mikl Brawner

DitchWeeds, Wildflowers, Native Forbs

Call them what you will:  when Nature chooses, She knows what She’s doing. And She doesn’t need a human audience. Nature is happy playing to the bees, wasps, butterflies, moths and beetles. We humans can learn a thing or two just by noticing and appreciating Nature’s perfect performance.  And that’s just what we gardeners do.
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Own-Root Roses

April 25, 2023

Did your roses take a hit from the winter cold and strong winds we just experienced? Perhaps they look as though they didn’t make it, showing brown, shriveled canes and no new growth above the ground. Or maybe there are no signs of life on the canes, but there is new growth just coming up from the ground. Either way, if your roses are growing on their own roots, you’re in luck. If they were grafted onto a rootstock, the prospects are not so good.[Read More]

Trees for a Changing Climate and a Resilient Urban Forest

May 23, 2023

Serviceberry

by Mikl Brawner

If you look at old photos of Colorado Front Range cities, you won’t see many trees. And if you look up native trees of Colorado, you will find a lot of mountain-growing conifers and just a few deciduous trees that grow natively along streams. And yet the quality of life for us humans depends on trees. 

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Thanks, Volunteers!

January 17, 2023

Gary Meis teaching

Gary Meis teaching

Last Saturday a group of dedicated plantspeople came in from the cold to learn and volunteer with Harlequin’s Gardens’ expert propagator Gary Meis. We’re passing a few of his native plant seeding and propagation tips along to you.

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Warming Herbal Tea Recipe

December 13, 2022

Herbal Tea

Herbal Teas are some of the best home-grown medicines! This time of year infusions of herbs from Harlequin’s Gardens plants you’ve grown can keep you well, and warm.

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Allium aflatunense ‘Purple Sensation’ (Giant Purple-flowered Onion)

June 18, 2019

Purple Sensation Allium

Bulb. Z3. 24-36” tall. Blooms late spring to early summer. Compost-improved soil.

Really a garden standout. It’s the statuesque spring blooming bulb that your neighbors always admire and ask about.  4-5” spherical flowerheads are deep purple and attractive to pollinators including bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Deer and rabbit resistant.  Gorgeous in flower arrangements cut fresh or dried. Easily naturalizes throughout your garden. Wonderful planted with Moonshine yarrow, artemisias with grey foliage, and orange-flowering geums like ‘Mrs. Bradshaw’.

Q: Can I plant now?

April 11, 2023

Spinach Start

Q:  Can I plant now?

A:  It depends!

Yay! Warm days remind us that the threat of frost will soon be gone! If you’re planting hardy perennials, shrubs, vines, grasses or trees, you’re good to go now (as long as your soil isn’t too wet to work). Our stock of seeds and starts for cool-season greens like arugula, spinach, chard, kale and lettuce are in and ready to plant. And you can get a head start on tomatoes!

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Allium amplectens ‘Graceful Beauty’

June 18, 2019

Circa 1857, this delicate-looking yet easy-growing North American native has composite 3″ globes of star-shaped, sparkling white flowers with pale lavender stamens tipped with purple anthers and sturdy stems.

Bloom time: May/June. 12″ to 16″ tall. Zone 4-8.

Garlic – Chesnok Red (organic, hard-neck)

August 25, 2020

Photo Credit: Irish Eyes Garden Seeds

Regularly wins acclaim and awards as one of the best tasting baking/roasting garlics!

Collected in 1985 in the Rep. of Georgia, this highly productive, easy-to-grow ‘Purple-Striped’ garlic makes beautiful, large deep-purple bulbs. Eaten raw, its intense heat quickly dissipates, but cooking and baking truly bring out its earthy, rich garlic complexities, very aromatic with a rich, smooth sweetness and just a touch of heat.

The cloves are more numerous (~8-20) and elongated than most hard-neck types and are initially hard to peel, allowing Chesnok Red to store much longer than other hard-necks – up to a year! But cloves become easier to peel the longer they store. Like other hard-neck varieties, it also produces curling, edible ‘scapes’ in June. Garlic is a  heavy feeder, so feed your soil well!

Plants are vigorous and upright, can handle a little neglect, an are great multipliers, growing large bulbs from even medium-sized cloves.

Garlic planting instructions

Second Chance Shrubs

August 2, 2022

Photo credit: Plant Select®

Our shrubs are all given great care here at the nursery, but occasionally we find some that have a little damage or are sulking because they really want to get out of the pot and into the ground. To help them all find good homes where they will grow and prosper, we are bringing out these ‘seconds’ at substantially discounted prices. We will continue to bring out more as they sell.

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Fall Sale Continues!

September 20, 2022

Our 2022 Big Fall Sale continues, with 30% off most plants! 

Sept. 20 thru end of the season take 30% off perennials, shrubs, roses, and trees, and 30% off soil products in big bags, and Compost Tea. (No discount on fruit trees, veggies, bulbs, 2023 seeds, or Holiday Market Books).

In our experience, fall is the most successful time to establish most plants, especially when mycorrhizae are applied to the roots during planting (and we’re well stocked with several types of mycorrhizae!).  We have a large and diverse selection of perennials, particularly in larger quart and gallon sizes, that are ready for planting. (Photo: Grass Calamagrostis brachytricha)

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Daylilies Shine in Mid-Summer

July 26, 2022

Daylilies are old favorites for good reasons. They are:
Low maintenance
Cold hardy (to USDA Zone 3)
Moderately drought-tolerant
Very attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds
Adaptable to a variety of soil conditions
Disease-free and pest-free
Graceful, eye-catching, and long-blooming
Available in a very wide range of colors and sizes
Rabbit-resistant
Fast-growing
Good for erosion control
Edible and tasty

And we still have some wonderful varieties in stock! And they are in bloom!  [Read More]

Fall Sale Updates & More!

September 6, 2022

Our Big Fall Sale continues with many fresh, new plants added. We are continually propagating and potting up plants, and some of them are just ready now, just in time to go on sale at 25% off!

Our 2022 Deep Discount Area opens today & our Big Fall Sale continues, with 25% off for everyone! Included in this week’s sale are:

Sept. 6 thru 11 Enjoy:

  • 25% off perennials, grasses, vines, shrubs, and trees
  • 20% off Roses. Note: the discount on roses will not increase
  • 20% off Compost Tea.
    No discounts on fruit trees, veggie starts, and bulbs.

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Watering in the Heat

July 19, 2022

In this period of high heat, we need to take special care of ourselves and our plants. Just as it makes sense to drink more water in the heat, it makes sense to water plants more often than usual. We water twice as much in July as we do in other months. BUT REMEMBER that plant roots need air, too. And if the soil is continually wet, plant roots won’t be able to use the water, and may rot. The best approach is still to water deeply, but not too frequently.

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Versatile Hardy Geraniums

July 19, 2022

Hardy Geraniums are some of the most versatile an adaptable perennials for our area! Available in many colors and habits, they can be useful in sun and shade, moist and dry, as individual specimens, companion plants and ground covers.

These are not to be confused with Pelargoniums, the popular house plant, container and bedding plant Zonal “Geraniums” and Ivy “Geraniums,” which are not cold-hardy outdoors in Colorado. The name “geranium” is derived from a Greek word meaning little crane, hence the common name “cranesbill” which refers to the appearance of the seed heads. [Read More]

Bur Oak, the ‘Smart Tree’

July 26, 2022

Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a majestic, slow-growing tree reaching 60 to 70’ in height and spread, and is typically very long-lived (think 200, 300+ years!). It’s the sort of tree you plant for the benefit of the generations to come. Many oak species don’t thrive in Colorado’s alkaline soils, but Bur Oak is a happy exception. It is also drought-tolerant once established, even in dry clay, and can handle city conditions quite well. Bur Oak’s strong wood and strong, almost right-angled branch connections resist breakage in wind and snow. [Read More]

Boulder-Dushanbe Teahouse Rose Garden

June 7, 2022

We would like to invite you to visit the Boulder-Dushanbe Teahouse Rose Garden in downtown Boulder across from the city park. The unique treasure of an intricately handcrafted, traditional Tajik Teahouse was gifted to the city of Boulder by the citizens of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, one of Boulder’s Sister Cities, in 1988. In time, the design of the structure was amended to be able to house a restaurant business, construction was completed, and the Teahouse opened in spring of 1998. Both the inside and outside of this fabulous building are elaborately adorned with colorful carved, painted and sculpted elements, mostly traditional, plus some contemporary artistry. 
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