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Waterwise Learning Center
With waterwise plants, or drought-tolerant and xeric plants, your garden can do more than just survive dry conditions - it can thrive. You can turn to High Country Gardens for inspiration and ideas, helpful planning and planting guides, and learning how to choose beautiful waterwise plants for your sustainable yard transformation.
Heroes of horticulture
Heroes Of Horticulture: Lauren Springer
By Ross Shrigley and Emily Goldman of Plant Select® | Updated 4/8/25 When Lauren Springer's book, The Undaunted Garden: Planting For Weather-Resilient Beauty, was published in 1994, it was a...
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Heroes of horticulture
Heroes Of Horticulture: Panayoti Kelaidis
Panayoti Kelaidis is the Senior Curator and Director of Outreach at Denver Botanic Gardens. In the 1990s, Panayoti helped to create Plant Select®, a partnership between Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado...
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Heroes of horticulture
Heroes Of Horticulture: Sally Walker
By David Salman, High Country Gardens Chief Horticulturist The gardening world has been enriched by generations of plant explorers and seed collectors who have spent their lives in the remote regions of the world to bring back...
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