Colorado's Great Gardens

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Oinjoy a ^ersonaí^our of Cobrado 's (Best Prívate Çardens!
In Colorado's Great Gardens, Georgia Oamsey describes gardens as individual and expressive as the fascinating people who created them. From the carefully shaped pines of the Kataoka family in Denver to Che Clary sage and ribbon grasses of Karen Holmgren's garden in Dolores, each gardener's tale is as varied as the landscape. Coloradans can never again believe that one must have a drizzly, dismal climate in order to create a spectacular and distinctive garden.
—Panayoti Kelaidis
Plant Evaluation Coordinator Denver Botanic Gardens
i^b Proctor, both a passionate plantsman and a sensitive artist, infuses his photographs of Colorado gardens with an appreciationfor their creators' unique accomplishments. Whether the reader is an avid and impassioned gardener or prefers to enjoy these explosions of color and design from the comfort of an armchair, this book is a delightful experience.
—Nina Williams
Founding... Tovább

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Oinjoy a ^ersonaí^our of Cobrado 's (Best Prívate Çardens!
In Colorado's Great Gardens, Georgia Oamsey describes gardens as individual and expressive as the fascinating people who created them. From the carefully shaped pines of the Kataoka family in Denver to Che Clary sage and ribbon grasses of Karen Holmgren's garden in Dolores, each gardener's tale is as varied as the landscape. Coloradans can never again believe that one must have a drizzly, dismal climate in order to create a spectacular and distinctive garden.
—Panayoti Kelaidis
Plant Evaluation Coordinator Denver Botanic Gardens
i^b Proctor, both a passionate plantsman and a sensitive artist, infuses his photographs of Colorado gardens with an appreciationfor their creators' unique accomplishments. Whether the reader is an avid and impassioned gardener or prefers to enjoy these explosions of color and design from the comfort of an armchair, this book is a delightful experience.
—Nina Williams
Founding Editor/Editor-at-Large Country Living Gardener
CoCorado's Qrcat Qardens
Plains, Mountains Plateaus
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Colorado's gardens are as diverse as the state's various ecosystems. Gardeners along the warm, dry Western Slope cultivate a much different array of plants than their counterparts in the mountains, or even those on the eastern plains.
Colorado's Great Gardens: Plains, Mountains and Plateaus features seventy-two gardens singled out for their beauty and adherence to plants indicative of their area. From gardens that grace the grasslands zone in Loveland, Denver, and Colorado Springs; to picturesque plots of the pinon-juniper woodlands zone in Grand Junction, Montrose, and Dolores; to the hardy perennials of the higher montane in "Vail, Telluride, and Crested Butte; these Colorado gardeners have adapted to their individual environments.
Rob Proctor, a photographer and writer for the Denver Post and numerous national gardening magazines, captures the colors and compositions that give these gardens their stand-out qualities. Whether it's a tall bed of brilliant poppies, a sandstone path meandering through delicate ground covers, or a melodious tangle of wildflowers lining a weathered fence. Proctor's striking images depict the serenity and charm inherent in each garden.
Georgia Garnsey, a Denver-based writer, provides lively profiles of each garden and the gardener who tends it. The descriptions reveal the trials and tribulations of gardening in each particular zone, as well as the joys gardeners have found in adapting to the requirements of their areas.
Like artists with their brushes, these gardeners have patiently experimented—planting, pruning, pulling up, and replanting—until they have cultivated their own unique masterpieces. Colorado's Great Gardens: Plains, Mountains and Plateaus celebrates these works of art.
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