August 14, 2013 – Fort Collins

Our first stop was at the Colorado State University’s Annual Flower Trial Garden, established to evaluate the performance of annual flower cultivars in the unique environmental condition’s of the Rocky Mountains. 

The garden consists of more than 1,000 varieties of annual plants … which are evaluated by industry personnel based on vigor, uniformity, floriferousness and tolerance to the environmental conditions.  Both national and international lower breeding companies participate in these trials.  Plants are propagated from either seeds of vegetative cuttings.  The results are nothing short of glorious!

Breezy Yellow Begonia

Zahara Cherry Zinnia

Tigereye Gold Rudbeckia

Red Head Coleus

Hypnotica Lavender Dahlia

Blonde Ambition Blue Gamma Grass

Mixture of Binders, Calibrachoa and Viberna

Dalmatian Purple Improved Foxglove

Gayla Orange Spark Gaillardia

XXL Hildalgo Dahlia

Cranberry Crush Rose Mallow

And, where there are flowers, there are

 

Tiger Swallow-tail Butterfly

Hundreds of Honey Bees

 

Monarch Butterfly

From there we took a tour of Old Town Fort Collins … which in many respects reminded us of Boulder and other similar college towns.

Sculptures

 

Water Bubble with a Foot Peddle Activator

One of Dozens of Micro Breweries in Fort Collins

Painted Horse Statue

Several Mural-Painted Upright Pianos (painted by Jessie Dore)

 

 Some clever and comical business signs

Blind Pig (notice the sunglasses)

Many architecturally-interesting buildings built in the 1880s and 1890s

Decorative electrical boxes

And flowers everywhere.

 

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