• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Harlequins Gardens

Harlequins Gardens

Boulder's specialist in well-adapted plants

We Are Open Tuesday – Sunday, 9 – 5 for the season

Gift Memberships & Gift Certificates  – available online!
See our seasonal hours and address, below.

Read our latest e-newsletter!

  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Staff
    • Display Gardens
    • Why the Name “Harlequin’s” Gardens?
    • Sustainability
    • Policy on Pesticides Including Neonicotinoids
    • Careers
  • What We Offer
    • Products
    • Plants
    • Retail Plant Pre-Ordering is Closed for the 2025 Season!
    • Gift Certificates
    • Membership
  • Plants
    • Annuals
    • Bulbs
    • Fruits
    • Groundcovers
    • Herbs
    • Natives
    • Ornamental Grasses
    • Perennials
      • Plants for Pollinators List
    • Roses
    • Vegetables
      • Tomato Starts
      • Pepper Starts
      • Other Vegetable Starts
      • Fall Vegetable Starts
      • Garlic
    • Xeriscape
  • Resources
    • Mikl’s Articles
    • Plant and Cultivation Information
    • Newsletters
    • Links
  • Garden Tours
  • Events
  • Classes
  • Blog
  • Wholesale
    • Who Qualifies
    • Wholesale Terms and Conditions
    • Wholesale Pricing & Sizes
    • Wholesale Log In
  • Contact
Home | Blog | Cheerful 50th Anniversary of Earth Day

Cheerful 50th Anniversary of Earth Day

April 21, 2020

April 22 is Earth Day, originally planned to bring a billion people into the streets to let our leaders know for sure that the health and resilience of our planet and our environment is of the Utmost Importance. Of course, neither a billion nor a dozen people are going to congregate on Earth Day this year.

But for Harlequin’s Gardens, Earth Day is special. First of all, our office manager, Chas Moore has his birthday on Earth Day.  Is it any wonder that he is now a manager of the most ecological retail nursery in Colorado?

Harlequin’s Gardens has been a pioneer and leader in sustainability in the nursery industry and a vehicle for organic veggie, herb and fruit plants and for classes and advice on organic gardening. We are thrilled that sustainability and resilience are now popular goals and visions of many people and municipalities. In just the last ten years we humans have grown to appreciate the importance of bees, pollinators and native plants. We are learning about how important our gut microbiome is to our health, and the value of the soil microbiome to Life on Earth. There are even a few nations that honor the Rights of Nature.

Of course, we know that there are money interests clinging to the Oil Brand and the Dominance Brand, but we see these powers as on their way to the tar pits, like the dinosaurs. Not only are The People on the side of The Earth and Life on Earth, but even the money is headed toward renewable resources and support for health of the earth.

Hasn’t the current pandemic shown us how clearly our human health is connected with the health of our environment? The government approval of poisons developed by chemical companies has weakened the American constitution. All of us are unwittingly and unwillingly carrying too many toxins in our bodies from the food, water and air we take in. We can’t continue to compromise our health for the profits of careless corporations.

So now millions of people are returning to the vision of the Victory Garden. We are growing our own healthy food and growing beautiful gardens without poisons.

We just experienced a 12-degree freeze and a lot of plants lost flowers, fruit buds and foliage. But where the soil life has not been killed by chemicals, the plants should rebound. The more we support the nutrient density in our soils, the stronger will our plants recover and the greater the nutrient density will be in the foods we eat to support our health.

The threat of Global Climate Disruption has alerted us to the importance of our planet’s health, but living with the daily risk of death from the Corona Virus has given us a real wake-up and appreciation of the preciousness of Life that we used to take for granted.

HERE’S TO OUR HEALTH AND TO THE HEALTH OF THE EARTH

Cheerful Earth Day 2020

Categories: Blog, Mikl's Articles, OLD-Blog

sidebar

Blog Sidebar

Sign-up for E-Newsletters!

Sign-up for our weekly e-newsletters to receive empowering gardening tips, ecological insights, and to keep up on happenings at Harlequin’s Gardens — such as flash sales and “just in” plants. We never share customer’s addresses!

We do not ship plants!

Our plants are for sale ONLY at our Boulder location. We DO NOT ship plants or any other products.  Come visit us!

Hours by Season

SUMMER HOURS
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

 

Footer

Contact Us

303-939-9403 (Retail)
staff@harlequinsgardens.com

4795 North 26th St
Boulder, CO 80301

Sign-up for E-Newsletters!

Sign-up for our weekly e-newsletters to receive empowering gardening tips, ecological insights, and to keep up on happenings at Harlequin’s Gardens — such as flash sales and “just in” plants. We never share customer’s addresses!

Map

Our Hours

Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS:
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

JANUARY - FEBRUARY HOURS
Thursday-Saturday, 10AM-4PM

Mondays, CLOSED

The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.