Harlequin's Gardens Blog
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Receive empowering gardening tips, ecological insights, and keep up on happenings at Harlequin's Gardens. Harlequin's Gardens is a small family business owned by Mikl Brawner and Eve Reshetnik Brawner that specializes in Colorado-adapted plants.
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
14h ago
The fields and the foothills are turning green! So many trees are blooming or beginning to leaf out! There is so much energy bursting forth everywhere I look! After the lovely rain last weekend we emerged from our Sunday class to be greeted by the singing of frogs in a big puddle in the parking[Read More ..read more
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
14h ago
It’s time to plant! This week, we have a great selection of Colorado-adapted and cold-hardy Native Cacti and Perennials, Annuals, Roses, Grapes, Raspberries, Clematis and plenty of Fruiting Trees and Shrubs. And we’re at the height of our Tomato selection, building up our splendid stock of Peppers, and still well-stocked with other delicious vegetable starts, herbs, Water-Wise Perennials, and so much more! Many[Read More ..read more
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
14h ago
This is the week we begin to bring you the Roses! From healthy over-wintered Harlequin’s roses in gallon pots, to beauties in ‘quart’ pots like the ‘Fairmount’ Proserpine pictured here – we have a selection like no other nursery – with 99% of our roses being own-root and able to take the Colorado weather. Here’s the[Read More ..read more
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
14h ago
XERISCAPE TREES AND SHRUBS for SUN Harlequin’s Gardens 303-939-9403 www.harlequinsgardens.com Note: plants listed in bold are native to our region TREES Acer ginnala / Amur maple Acer ginnala ‘Compacta’ / Dwf. Amur Maple Acer grandidentatum / Bigtooth Maple Acer negundo / Boxelder Acer negundo ‘Sensation’ / ‘Sensation’ Boxelder, male selection Acer tataricum ‘Hot Wings’[Read More ..read more
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
14h ago
XERISCAPE PERENNIALS & BIENNIALS for SUN Harlequin’s Gardens 303-939-9403 www.harlequinsgardens.com Note: plants listed in bold are native to our region Acantholimon (hohenackeri, glumaceum, etc.) Achillea ageratifolia Achillea filipendula ‘Moonshine’ Achillea lanulosa Achillea millefolium ‘Cerise Queen’ Achillea millefolium ‘Paprika’ Achillea serbica Aethionema grandiflora Agastache aurantiaca ‘Coronado’ Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ Agastache cana Agastache foeniculum Agastache neomexicana[Read More ..read more
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
14h ago
2024 Rose Availability List Above and Beyond Austrian Copper – (f. bicolor) Autumn Damask Autumn Sunblaze Banshee Bridal Sunblaze Brilliant Veranda Burgundy Ice Campfire Carefree Delight Carefree Spirit Carefree Wonder Celestial Night Champlain Charles Darwin Coral Cove Cream Veranda Darlow’s Enigma Denver’s Dream Dortmond Double Knockout Earth Angel Emily Carr Fairmount Proserpine Felix[Read More ..read more
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
2w ago
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
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
3w ago
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
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
3w ago
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
Harlequin's Gardens Blog
3w ago
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