When Chad Miller, Ph.D., joined the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University (CSU) in January, he had just finished his fall semester teaching commitment at Kansas State University (K-State), where he had been for 12 years. He had only a few weeks to pack up and move to Colorado in time to start the spring...
Glenda Mostek
CNGA Executive Director
Sometimes the seasons of this job are joyful and happy, sometimes they are challenging, and sometimes they are sad. It was a very sad day in early February when I had to call board members and let them know that our board president, Mandy Gerace, had passed away unexpectedly at age 46. We are all still...
Durango Nursery & Supply, Inc.271 Kay Cee LaneDurango CO 81303970-259-8800http://www.durangonursery.com
Interview with Tom Bridge, Owner, and Sue Herlihy, Nursery Manager Emeritus
How did the nursery get started in Durango?
After growing up in New York, I attended college at the University of Denver and received a degree in Anthropology and Geology. From there I landed a job in Flagstaff at the Museum...
OneCanopy2880 14th Street SELoveland, CO 80537303-250-4126http://www.one-canopy.com
Interview with Katelynn Martinez, Director of Operations and Business Development
How new is OneCanopy and how did you get started?
OneCanopy is quite new, less than two years old. In 2021, local entrepreneur Kevin Brinkman approached me with a keen interest in starting a reforestation company that addressed issues within the reforestation pipeline, notably the lack...
I write my first column as President of the Colorado Nursery and Greenhouse Association with a heavy but hopeful heart. The unexpected passing of Mandy Gerace caught the entire green industry by surprise, not to mention her family and friends. We will all miss Mandy’s bright smile and continuous support of the Colorado green industry both through her career...
Big changes are in the works for the Colorado Horticulture Research and Education Foundation (CHREF). In addition to the continual funding of research, ongoing projects and scholarship awards at Colorado State University (CSU) and Front Range Community College (FRCC), a new budget was set to allow for the initiatives the board has been discussing over the past couple years....
The First Regular Session of the 74th Colorado General Assembly convened on Jan. 9, 2023. The 2022 General Election didn’t change the make-up of the legislature when it came to which party holds the majority, but what did change was how large of a majority the Democrats hold in both the House and Senate Chamber. The House split went...
In 2022, Colorado State University continued its three-year herbaceous perennial trial and chose eight perennials as the ‘Top Performers’ from 113 that were planted in 2020. A CSU Top Performer has to have great survival percentages after two winters and three growing seasons and score excellent throughout the three growing seasons. A subcommittee of the CSU Annual Trial Committee...
Courtenay Koontz is general manager at Trees of Corrales (TOC) in Corrales, New Mexico. His parents founded the nursery in 1976 and grew field trees. In the early 1990s TOC started the container division. “The container division has continued to expand,” Courtenay says. “We still do western natives but the bulk of what we grow is grasses and perennials.”...
In 2018, Derek Anglemyer co-founded West Canyon Nurseries in Glenwood Canyon in partnership with his wife, Amy, and her parents. The property had previously been a tree farm selling wholesale but had not functioned to its full capacity in several years. Derek’s father-in-law, who owns a landscape business in Colorado Springs, alerted Derek and Amy that the property was...
