Mary Polk

After retiring from a full time career in healthcare, Mary worked at Longwood Botanical Gardens where
she pruned, planted and weeded in gardens ranging from formal ivy beds to native woodland shrubs to a vertical “green wall” planted with 36,000 ferns. She was introduced to the concepts of a natural garden and the use of native plants in the 1980’s and continues to learn and apply these concepts. She she has taken classes offered through the Denver Botanical Gardens, CO Master
Gardeners, and local nurseries such as Harlequin to learn about water-wise Colorado plants.