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Showing posts with label Garden Headlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden Headlines. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Rain Barrels Now Legal in Colorado

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Photo by Carol King As of Aug. 10, 2016  House Bill 16-1005 became law,  allowing most Colorado  home owners to use up to two 55-gallo...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Flowers Succesfully grown on the International Space Station By Joyce D’Agostino

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Astronaut Scott Kelly's Twitter Post This week some exciting news came from the International Space Station. An experiment to grow ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Spiders Paired with Unlikely Partner to Make Silk by Elaine Lockey

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Spiders use their silk for building webs to catch prey, as a safety or drag line if they are spiders that roam, spider "dens...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Carbon Farming with Jatropha by Elaine Lockey

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photo courtesy of http://research.ifas.ufl.edu There has been much recent press about the desert shrub Jatropha curcas and it's...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Flower Grown From Siberian Permafrost Seed

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Approximately 30,000 years ago, a squirrel burrowed into the ground in Siberia and stored its hoard of fruit and seeds. Russian scientists...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Pothole Gardening!

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Guerrilla Gardening at it's finest!
Thursday, February 16, 2012

2012 USDA Hardiness Zone Map by Carol King

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Exciting news for all you plant nerds! On Jan. 25, 2012 the U.S. Department of Agriculture  released the new version of its Plant Hardiness ...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

No More Latin Descriptions for New Botanical Species!

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I'm sure all you plant nerds will have an opinion on this one.  Botanists who discover new species no longer have to provide descripti...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The Supertrees of Singapore by Elaine Lockey

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photo by Wong Maye-E, AP  Singapore is currently constructing an astonishing botanic park, integrating massive tree sculptures in with ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Kim Bone, 2011 Plant Select Photo Winner!

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Our very own Jefferson County CSU Colorado Master Gardener, Kim Bone, has won the 2011 Plant Select Photo Contest in the Great Groupings Cat...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Mountain Pine Beetle Spreads to Front Range

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Photo Courtesy of University of Wyoming The Denver Post reports that the mountain pine beetle has spread to Colorado's Front Rang...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Herbicide Imprelis Recalled by the EPA

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After reviewing thousands of complaints of damage to evergreens and other trees, the Enviornmental Protection Agency has ordered a recall o...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

2011 Annual Flower Trials at CSU

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Salvia 'Summer Jewel Red' Dr. James E. Klett,  CSU professor and Extension Landscape Horticulture Specialist ,  invites us t...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Become a Citizen Scientist by Shelly Taylor

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Gardening appeals to people for various reasons.  Some like the idea of producing their own food, some appreciate the beauty of flowers and ...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Corn,Beans, and Squash in the White House garden

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Evan Vucci I am always interested to see what the latest "goings on"  in the White House garden are. Last week, Michelle Obama ...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Plant Select Announces 2011 Winners

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Avalanche White Sun Daisy Every year, Plant Select ® chooses new and underutilized plants to promote to regional gardeners and landscap...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Tobacco Plant Helps Detect explosives

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 So the next time you travel, you may not only have to have a body scan, you may also have to walk by planters full of Nicotiana !  Dr. June...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Where Did the Flowers in My Bouquet Originate?

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Photo by Carol King Did you receive a bouquet from your Valentine this year?  Did you ever wonder where the flowers come from?  More than...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Presidential Gardening

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 In honor of President's Day, I am posting this video that gives a quick history of Presidential gardening!  Presidents have been garden...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Westminster High School Horticulture Program Awarded Grant

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The Denver Post had an interesting story about Westminster High School's  horticulture program. It is one of the few left on the Front ...