The Peppers are Coming!  This week it’s too early to plant peppers outdoors, but if you can protect them until the soil and air have warmed up, come and shop our first round of Pepper Starts! Lots more tomatoes are here, too! Also many culinary and medicinal herbs, flowering annuals and perennials, shrubs, trees, berry bushes and[Read More ..read more

They’re hardy, evergreen, fragrant, gorgeous! Some of you are familiar with Daphne ‘Carol Mackie’, a much sought-after semi-evergreen shrub with cream-edged leaves that try to be evergreen all winter but usually defoliate by February. But there are less well-known, compact, mounding Daphne shrubs, like ‘Lawrence Crocker’ and D. neapolitanum that are much easier, completely evergreen,[Read More ..read more

There’s much to do in the garden in April, from finalizing your garden plan, attending to your tools, to the annual spring clean up and pruning and lawn and vegetable garden prep. We have your checklist and the information and products you’ll need this month, here. Find, clean, sharpen and buy new garden tools if[Read More ..read more

Miss planting bulbs last fall? No worries, we’ve got you covered. Choose from miniature daffodils, chionodoxa, hyacinth, tulips and more. You can enjoy these in their pots while they bloom and plant in-ground later, or plant the blooming flowers now. Either way, you’ll have blooms for years to come!   Some are blooming now, and[Read More ..read more

It could have been worse. We are grateful that the severe winds didn’t cause any fires, blow down very many trees, kill or maim anyone (at least not that we’ve heard) or tear off roofs. It must have been a terrible time for anyone that was unhoused. We lost one small hoophouse that was empty[Read More ..read more

PANSY VARIETIES:   Ullswater Claret Jolly Joker Silverbride Beaconsfield Frizzle Mix Ultima Morpho VIOLAS: Chantryland White Perfection   ..read more

Lots of Fruit Trees: the best cherries, plums and apples for the Front Range! Lots of Berry Bushes: Gooseberries: Hinomaki Red, Pixwell, Captivator Currants: Imperial White – great flavor!, Gwen’s Buffalo Currant, and more Nanking Cherries – Orient, Black-fruited Lots of great water-wise shrubs, many native!: Fernbush (Chamaebatieria millifolia) native Plant Select! Seaberry (Hippophae rhamnoides)[Read More ..read more

As part of HG’s commitment to supporting local ecology and local economy, we have the pleasure of connecting with and (mutually) supporting small growers in our state and our region. Yesterday, I paid a visit to our immensely talented and dedicated off-site custom propagator, Sue J., in Fort Collins. Sue is a self-taught organic grower[Read More ..read more

HARLEQUIN’S GARDENS 2024 Fruiting Trees, Shrubs and Vines APPLE – Cortland – Freedom – Haralred – Honeycrisp – Liberty – Red Regent – Sweet 16 Available August 2024 – Honeygold – Snow Sweet – Zestar BLACKBERRY – Triple Crown CHERRY – Evan’s Bali – Mesabi – North Star – Carmine Jewel – Romeo – Juliet[Read More ..read more

Dear Friends and Fellow Gardeners, Welcome to Spring, to Harlequin’s Gardens and another opportunity to partner with nature. This season we can all grow healthy food, increase the population of native plants, create beauty and learn more about caring for our planet and local habitat. Some people would call this work; we gardeners call it[Read More ..read more