High Plains Landscape Symposium
The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins | Saturday, March 2, 2024 | 7:30 a.m.– noon
Garden smarter, not harder!
Join us for the annual High Plains Landscape Symposium, presented by Fort Collins Nursery, on Saturday, March 2. Our ever-changing High Plains landscape presents unique and interesting challenges for even the most seasoned gardener. Experts Cynthia Bee and Panayoti Kelaidis will share tried and true techniques, plant lists, microclimate factors, helpful tips and their secrets to help turn your garden into the beautiful, water-wise landscape of your dreams! We can't wait to see you for this special day of learning, connecting and growing.
Attending our livestream? Digital copies of the program and handouts can be found here.
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In-Person |
$70 |
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Livestream |
$35 livestream only |
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Practical Sustainability: Simple Steps to Improve Your Landscape
Are you overwhelmed thinking about how to transform your landscape to fit, rather than fight, the local climate? We’ll rethink landscapes and teach you how to upgrade your landscape one project at a time.
About the Speaker:
Cynthia Bee has spent more than a decade teaching Intermountain West homeowners how to landscape for where they live. Thousands of homeowners have been able to improve their landscapes using the techniques she promotes in classes and online. She holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Utah State University.
Gardening in Paradise: The Secrets of Microclimatic Gardening
Everyone in Colorado complains about hail, untimely frost, drought and floods. Where else in America can you grow Lithops, Agave, Meconopsis, and have Eremurus self-sowing wildly? I'll share secrets about how to turn your garden from purgatory (or worse!) to paradise.
About the Speaker:
Panayoti Kelaidis is the Senior Curator and Director of Outreach at Denver Botanic Gardens, where he's been employed since 1980. His many horticultural passions include plant exploration, pushing zone limits on plants—ultimately creating (or trying to) a beautiful garden that can survive long periods of neglect (while he's traveling).
Hosted by the Gardens on Spring Creek in partnership with the City of Fort Collins Utilities Department and Larimer County Office of Colorado State University Extension, proceeds from this important annual fundraiser benefit The Gardens.
