When you think of alpine plants, it might seem like a niche horticultural club, requiring lots of expertise and specialist composts. Certainly, you’ll find a few ...

As fall settles in, gardeners across Colorado are preparing their gardens for the cold months ahead. At the Betty Ford Alpine Garden in Vail—the highest botanic garden in North America—experts like ...

Alpine strawberries are a unique and delicious type of strawberry to grow and offer an alternative to more commonly-seen strawberries. The fruits are smaller, but are produced over a long time and ...

One of the most recent additions is the education center, located on the far northwest end and a stone’s throw away from a covered walking bridge across Gore Creek. Opened in 2015, the facility serves ...

A summer in the Rocky Mountains helped Jackson Fox take his gardening and landscape skills to new heights, elevating his green thumb. The University of Delaware Class of 2027 landscape architecture ...

In a summer that, at times, can feel like a far cry from years past, Betty Ford Alpine Gardens is a Vail staple that’s hoping to provide some stability and peace to visitors. Located by the Gerald R.

Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ORONO — About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Exploring the wilds of the Rocky Mountains is a quintessential Colorado activity — especially in the summer. Yet sometimes a day out in the sunshine calls ...