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01/07/2025

July 1st and cherry trees in Denver are abundant🍒Yesterday was spent in a tree in the Park Hill neighborhood and today 12 lbs of sour cherries are going to center in the same neighborhood. You can’t get much more local than that!

A new month also means our newsletter is out-please check out our next 3 classes-Plant Stroll #2 with Marla on the 9th ; Garden Journaling with Mary on the 12th and a Pickling Party with .thomas on August 3rd🥳

It also includes a recap of what we’ve been up to in May and June😊

LINK IN BIO if you aren’t already on our mailing list.

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27/06/2025

What a lovely evening we had last night featuring Lisa Negri’s and Gerald Abner’s .gerald Bug Snugs.

Lisa and Gerald teamed up to create these natural obelisks’s last spring and filled them with garden debris ‘harvested’ from this space in the fall. These big snugs are not only beautiful but also serve as habitat for insects and add to the larger, native habitat Lisa and her crew of volunteers have created here.

A delightful evening with friends old AND my parents❤️(shown in the last frame with Lisa) who made the trip from Heather Gardens in Aurora. It was special for me to have them meet Lisa, a kindred garden spirit, and share this unique and beautiful place with them.

Thank you Lisa for hosting and sharing your journey and Gerald for teaching us how to create these beautiful additions to our own gardens🐞🐛🐜🦟🪲🪳🕷️

And a special note of thanks to the mighty agave plant that saved its glorious last performance for us!

24/06/2025

Please join us this Thursday evening, June 26th, at 6:30 for an upclose and personal view of .gerald ‘s ‘bug snugs.’ You may also get a last glimpse of the agave’s glorious last flower shoot, before the end of its life cycle (these photos were taken last Friday so we’ll see…)

Gerald (bug snug designer) and Lisa Negri (SHG’s founder/creator) will be on hand to talk about this pocket park, featuring water-wise, native plants, and how they collaborated to create these functional sculptures.

This event is free but please register at the Eventbrite link in bio. There will be a garden-inspired beverage and nibbles provided.

Hope you can join us!

19/06/2025

Another productive morning with Joe Fleenor and a fellow community gardener who showed up to help us yesterday at 8 a.m.💚

Together we harvested, rinsed and spun 47 lbs of radishes, Hakurej turnips, spinach and lettuce (in 45 minutes👍🏼). Not too shabby for a couple of old folks!

Came home and friend/volunteer helped me harvest peas and sort the rest of the produce left on my porch over the last two days. Thanks to for her bounty of herbs and arugula and to for the harvest from South HS. All in, it was 67 pounds🙏🏼

Thanks to Holly Harper, a friend from GLC, we are now connected to the center’s lunch lady and graduate Erin Languell. Erin prepares breakfast, lunch and a snack for 150 children in their Head Start/Early Head Start summer program in addition to 100 staff members. She uses 25-30 lbs of food for lunch alone so our donation will only last a couple of days. Still, she was very appreciative and happily took everything we had brought🥳 My friend, Barbara Masoner calls this the ‘one stop drop.’

8 different folks made yesterday’s donation possible, thank you all!

18/06/2025

Thank you Marla Alexander for a lovely, educational plant stroll last evening🌱

As we walked the alley and a few blocks west, Marla pointed out w**ds that might otherwise be dismissed. While participants sipped a rhubarb cocktail, she focused on each plants medicinal, nutritional and culinary benefit. From Ground Mallow to Lamb’s Quarters, to Echinacea to Purslane, the group was surprised and fascinated with the information she shared.

Marla will be back Wednesday July 9th, 6:30-7:30 to scope out summer blooms and later emergent w**d varieties. Hope you can join us!!

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17/06/2025

Common Milkw**d (though there’s nothing common about THAT bloom😳), Borage, a baby ladybug and a Dragonfly Dance
in my backyard. There must be have been a ‘hatch’ over the weekend because the blue species is frolicking everywhere!

16/06/2025

Hap-pea Monday! Today’s post is all about snap 🫛 🫛🫛

I’ve recently learned that snap peas likely originated in China and are one of the oldest cultivated crops known to civilization. The Sugar Snap variety, however is much more recent and was developed by U.S. breeder Calvin Lamborn in 1979 by crossing a thick-walled garden pea with a snow pea. The French term for sugar snaps in ‘mangetout’ which translates to ‘eat it all.’

This is the first year I’ve been able to grow peas in 6 of my 8 beds. Starting in mid-March, I staggered the plantings every 2 weeks through the end of April. Some were direct-seeded and others were started indoors in peat pods. My oldest planting is just about finished, but my older plantings should produce for at least another few weeks. The other nice thing about planting peas is they provide a shady ‘pea screen’ for the warm season transplants. This is an important asset in a scorching hot plot like mine.

Thanks to for the Tall Snap Magnolia Blossom, the flowers are exquisite shades of purple and the pods are sweet, tender and juicy. They are over 6 ft tall as you can see from the photos😳and I’ve deemed their bed the ‘Leaning Tower of Pea-za🫛’

Sugar Snap Peas from are consistently a winner as is ‘s Magnolia Blossom Snap Pea. A special shout-out to for donating a couple rows of their sugar snap pea seedlings🙏🏼💚

Once the plants die off and stop producing fruit, I will cut them off at the soil line and mulch the vines. The mulch will provide valuable ground cover and nutrition to the next round of crops.

This week we will be seeding 4 kinds of okra alongside the rows of peas. Once the okra has germinated the peas should be finishing up. Thanks to for the suggestion to cut the peas at the soil line as okra HATES root disturbance. This is my first time seeding okra and am excited to see how much better it does (vs. being transplanted).

Praise to this mighty legume for ALL its benefits 💚

10/06/2025

There are still a few spots left for our events next week!

Tuesday, June 17th we will meet here at 6:30 for an evening Plant Stroll with Marla Alexander, herbalist, educator and founder of .

And to ring in the summer season join us next Thursday, June 19th from 4-6 p.m. near the South Platte River and for Willow Weaving with artist/educator .gerald .

For details and event registration see links in bio or visit our website!

Hope to see you next week!🌱

07/06/2025

Please join us for an evening with native gardener, Lisa Negri and artist, .gerald at this stunning pocket park in the Wash Park neighborhood.

On June 26th from 6:30-7:30, we will sip and nibble as Gerald and Lisa share their collaborative Bug Snug project. These obelisks, filled with garden debris, not only create visual interest but also play a valuable role in the garden. We hope you can join us for this special evening!

This is a free event but a suggested donation to would be appreciated 🙏🏼😊🌱 Registration link in bio.

01/06/2025

Today is the day💃🏻

Come out and celebrate this beautiful first day of June with us! There will be seeds, seedlings, knowledgeable gardeners, info on how to share your harvest and yummy coffee and goodies for purchase from our favorite NW Denver cafe.

Hope to see you soon on the patio😎☕️

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