2008 Colorado Garden & Home Show Feature Gardens
16 Innovative Gardens Lend Inspiration to New Forms of Outdoor Living
Entry Garden
Theme: Enchanted Forest
Sponsored by: Bank of the West
Designed & Installed by: Town and Country Landscaping
303-708-8850
A garden is a beautiful place to find yourself in – but an enchanted garden can be truly magical! Encounter forest animals, mystical creatures, trolls, fairies and a giant tree that comes to life. Keep your eyes open so you don’t miss a thing!
Garden A
Theme: Bring the Inside Out
FRSR LLC
303-288-7155
Your home is your sanctuary so why not bring the comforts of home into the backyard. With a comfortable seating area, outdoor entertainment center and outdoor kitchen, relaxing and entertaining in your backyard has never been easier. All of the essential garden elements are present – a myriad of flowers and plants, a tranquil stream flowing into a pond and a beautiful and durable stamped concrete patio. In this garden we truly bring the best of both worlds, indoor and out, together.
Garden B
Theme: Well Rounded
Timberline Gardens Landscape
720-495-2816
Delight in this retro garden of multi-leveled circles and modern accents like the black rock, ornamental grasses and unusual flowering trees and shrubs. Stroll or linger, either way you’ll agree it is a Well Rounded experience.
Garden C
Theme: Colorado Lifestyles
Castlewood Custom Landscape & Design
303-814-8118
Using the natural Colorado elements to create your personal mountain oasis.
Garden D
Theme: Simplify Your Life
Alpine Gardens
970-396-7608
Simplify Your Life – the quest for simplicity, sustainability and peace in our daily lives is a goal of many. The ability to find this at home seems almost impossible. With an estimated 15 million Americans working from home in 2008 a peaceful garden space or retreat is a steadily increasing trend.
Garden E
Theme: You Can Manage It!
Education Garden - Colorado State University & GreenCo
This garden features eco-friendly landscape techniques for trees, turf, and container plantings. Alternative plants to replace noxious weeds are displayed. Plant Select will feature appropriate plants for peaks, plateau and plains.
Garden F
Theme: Cowpolk’s Hangout
Redwood’s Precision Landscaping
303-617-3408
Put on your hats, saddle up and mosey through the old west. Enjoy beautiful flowers and a practical design with a western twist. Hang out by the falls and enjoy the fire just like a good old fashioned cowpolk. Giddy up!
Garden G – Student Garden
Theme: Urban Gardening
Pickens Tech, Warren Tech, Career Development Center & Hidden Lake High School
303-344-4910
Students from four area horticulture schools designed and built these four gardens that represent Urban Gardening in Colorado. Students were responsible for the design, growing the plants and construction of the garden.
Garden I
Theme: Eco-Modern Colorado
Waikoa Landscape Design
303-619-5870
Enjoy a modern, earth friendly landscape using the most environmentally friendly products. For example, the beautiful stonework is synthetic and locally produced. Relax on the wicker furniture which is made from non-toxic synthetic materials that are all 100% recyclable and environmentally friendly. All which help minimize the ‘carbon footprint’ (amount of energy used in production and product shipment).
Garden J
Theme: Island Kingdom’s Tropical Paradise…Escape to the Island
Elitch Gardens
303-595-4386
Surrounded by palm trees and sand, with the rushing sound of waterfalls splashing in the background, visitors will be transported to a tropical paradise with lush floral gardens.
Garden K
Theme: Backyard Retreat for All Ages
Environmental Designs
303-287-9113
It is possible to have it all! For the adults, a peaceful oasis complete with the relaxing sound of running water and the comfort of a warm fire. For the kids, an entertaining paradise with a unique play house and fun garden elements. These components harmoniously meld together to create a one of a kind family retreat.
Garden L
Theme: Balance and Harmony, The 5 Elements
The Outsiders, LLC
720-842-1097
Combine all five elements; fire, earth, metal, water and wood, to create a feeling of comfort, balance and harmony. A peaceful and inviting garden crafted by the balance of the five elements as well as repetition of colors, shapes, forms and plant species. The relaxing sound of the water and the use of fire make this space a place the family will enjoy for years to come.
Garden M
Theme: Colorado Serenity
American Design & Landscape
303-841-2820
Enter this landscape retreat and feel yourself relax by the atmosphere created by wood, water, stone and plant material. Envision yourself at home in this garden.
2009 Feature Gardens Applications Now Being Accepted
The 2009 Colorado Garden & Home Show will celebrate its 50th anniversary February 7-15, 2009 at the Colorado Convention Center. Applications for feature gardens are now being accepted from Colorado landscape companies to demonstrate their skills to 70,000 attendees plus thousands more through extended media coverage.
Landscape companies will be selected based on the submitted design, reputation, and knowledge of providing Coloradans with excellent landscape construction while focusing on the environmental challenges with living in Colorado.
Feature Gardeners at the Colorado Garden & Home Show will receive a $3.00 per square foot stipend to install their garden. They will also receive an additional stipend to purchase flowers through the show’s grower. In addition to providing greenhouse space to force shrubs and trees, the show will furnish the mulch, sod and cut trees.
Each landscape company will be provided with 100 square feet within the garden as “booth space” to promote the company’s services. Most of the landscape companies receive enough bid requests at the show to last the entire year!
If you are interested in becoming a Feature Gardener, click here for an application. Applications are being accepted from any interested Colorado company and are due no later than March 31st.
Please call 303-932-8100 with questions.
