CSU RESEARCH: 2021-22 Cool Season Trials Top Picks for Off-Season Color
This was the fourteenth year that Colorado State University (CSU) has conducted Cool Season Trials at the Annual Flower Trial Garden. The overall goal...
CHREF Scholarship Winners Announced
By Mike Schleining, CCNP
CHREF Board Member
2015-16 & 2016-17 CHREF Scholarship Recipient
As you know, the Colorado Horticulture Research and Education Foundation (CHREF) relies on fundraisers...
Implementing Multiple Strategies to Battle Japanese Beetle
NEWS FROM THE CDA
By Laura Pottorff, CGG, Nursery & Plant Pest Quarantine Program Manager, Colorado Department of Agriculture
Quarantine pests and laws associated with their...
Mengmeng Gu is New HLA Department Head
Colorado State University (CSU) welcomes Mengmeng Gu, Ph.D., as the new Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) department head in the College of Agricultural Sciences....
Winter Interest with Plant Select® Plants in the Western Garden
Landscapes in the western garden should be intriguing, catching the light, glistening with frost all while sturdy under the weight of snow. The Plant...
Why You Should Pay Attention to Noxious Weeds
At his last count, State Weed Coordinator Steve Ryder of the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) set the number of regular old weeds found...
Insurance Budgeting for Hail & Other Coverages
How does a nursery, greenhouse or garden center owner budget for insurance and consequential uninsured loss? No longer is just looking at premium cost...
Have You Heard About This Pine Killing Bug?
The pine wilt nematode is not something most of us in the Mountain West have heard of before. I personally came to learn about...
Understanding Your Insurance Policy
Insurance policies are written in a unique “language” that takes time and practice to fully understand. This means, in many cases, policies can be...
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR PESTS: Rampant Fire Blight in 2018
For the last 30 years every spring and summer, customers have been bringing their fire blight samples to Phelan Gardens and Earth Expressions Landscape...
