Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Thanks for attending Denver Fling!

Bloggers attending Denver Fling. Photo: April Shelhon
A mountain-sized thank you to the Denver Team for untold volunteer hours spent on putting together a fantastic 3-1/2 day tour of Denver-area gardens for us! Kudos to team members Judy Seaborn, Laura O'Connor, April Shelhon, Jennifer Spainhower, and Leigh Pond!

Denver Team: Leigh Pond, April Shelhon, Judy Seaborn, Jennifer Spainhower, Laura O'Connor of Botanical Interests. Photo: Linda Lehmusvirta
We encourage attendees to share your experience at Denver Fling on social media (#gbfling2019) and on your blog. We'll be collecting blog posts here (see below) so your fellow bloggers as well as the garden owners, sponsors, and anyone interested in Colorado gardening can read them. Check back periodically to find the newest links. And do share your Fling-related blog posts on the Fling Facebook page too. Seeing different perspectives about the gardens after the Fling ends keeps the fun going!


Click here for the Denver Fling Sponsor Directory.

Denver Fling Blog Posts


The Paintbox Garden: The High Plains Environmental Center

The Paintbox Garden: Flora and Joy in Englewood

The Paintbox Garden: One Steppe at a Time

Danger Garden: The Shinn Garden, 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling Finale

Danger Garden: The Hamling, Funk and Seaborn gardens; from the Denver GB Fling...

Danger Garden: The Proctor Garden, from the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling

Danger Garden: Jean Morgan's garden, from the 2019 GB Fling

Danger Garden: The Deemer Garden, from the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling

Garden In a City: The Garden of Panayoti Kelaidis

Garden In a City: The Garden of Dan Johnson and Tony Miles

Garden In a City: A Prairie Garden in Downtown Denver

Danger Garden: Agave towers and the hazards of garden touring with dozens of camera toting friends...

Danger Garden: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling: the Johnson Miles garden

Garden In a City: Plant 1,500 Seeds and What Do You Get?

Garden In a City: Victoria on the Front Range

The Shovel-Ready Garden: 2019 Denver Garden Bloggers Fling - Thursday Welcome

Danger Garden: Denver Botanic Gardens, let's go! Chapter Five of Five...that's a wrap

Danger Garden: Denver Botanic Gardens, let's go! Chapter Four of Five, rocks...

Garden In a City: Holy Moly, Talk About Your Borrowed Views

Garden In a City: A Boulder Garden

Danger Garden: The Gardens on Spring Creek, from the 2019 GBFling

Garden In a City: Linda Boley's Garden Is for the Birds

Garden In a City: From Miner's Cabin to Xeric Butterfly Garden

Garden In a City: Good Source of Seeds for People with Botanical Interests

Garden In a City: A Rock Garden After My Own Heart

Garden In a City: High Plains Environmental Center

Garden In a City: GrowHaus, the farm in a city

Danger Garden: The Steppe Garden, at the Denver Botanic Gardens

Idelle Fisher: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling

Danger Garden: Tatiana Maxwell's garden, a 2019 Fling stop

The Farmer's Garden Blog: Denver Botanic Garden 2019-10-17

Danger Garden: The Borland Garden, a stop on the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling

Danger Garden: The Chatfield affair...

A Wandering Botanist: Denver Area--Spectacular Native Plants

A Growing Obsession: Suburbitat

Danger Garden: Visiting the garden of Panayoti Kelaidis

A Wandering Botanist: Garden Bloggers Fling 2019--Loveland and Fort Collins
 
The Lower Left Corner: Labor Day garden thoughts

Central Texas Gardener: Growing Dreams: Judy Seaborn’s Garden

Danger Garden: The Scripter Garden, a 2019 GB Fling stop

The Paintbox Garden: A Denver Floral Extravaganza – The Garden of Rob Proctor and David Macke

A Growing Obsession: Scott Deemer’s dreamscape of rocks, fire, water

Queen of the Dirt: What’s your number?

Central Texas Gardener: Unity Through Plants

Central Texas Gardener: Hot Ideas for Entrances, Privacy & Garden Art

Danger Garden: Linda Boley's garden, a stop on the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze near Denver…The Gardens on Spring Creek

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze near Denver…sculpture on a grand scale

GardenBook: Mountains and Sky -the Borrowed View in a Niwot Prairie Meadow

Central Texas Gardener: Elevating Perspectives

Central Texas Gardener: Relaxation Tricks: Garden Perches + Water

Digging: Line dancing and Stickwork sculpture at Chatfield Farms

A Growing Obsession: hungry eyes, busy hands; Colorado garden of Dan Johnson & Tony Miles

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze in Denver…I’ll take a seat at this table

Digging: Keith Funk’s front-yard oasis

Digging: An exuberant, upcycled, scrap-art garden

GardenBook: I'll have a Denver on the Rocks Bartender -and Make it a Double!

Digging: Steppe garden evangelist Panayoti Kelaidis’s garden

Central Texas Gardener: Getting Around the Garden: Pathway to Ideas

The Farmer's Garden: Gardens on Spring Creek

Digging: Children’s Garden at Denver Botanic Gardens

Plant Lust: Denver Garden Bloggers’ Fling 2019: reflections

Digging: Crevice garden, Japanese garden, and more sculpture at Denver Botanic Gardens

Digging: Steppe garden, foxtail lilies, and sculpture at Denver Botanic Gardens

Digging: A dryland garden inspired by Mother Nature

Gardening in a Drought: Looking Up in the Garden

Sharing Nature's Garden: Touring the Denver area before the Garden Bloggers Fling 2019

Digging: Containers and color galore in Rob Proctor’s garden


The Paintbox Garden: Visiting Panayoti’s Garden

Digging: Party under the willow tree in Judy Seaborn’s garden

Central Texas Gardener: Hot & Dry Doesn’t Mean Blah Gardens

PlantPostings: Pick a Colorado Plant, Any Plant

Digging: A fusion of nature and art in Scott Deemer’s garden

Gardening Among Friends: Some Favorite Things from the Denver Garden Fling – Part 1

Digging: Unscripted beauty in Scripter meadow garden

Cottage in the Court: Denver…Thoughts on Flinging

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze near Denver…a visit to Botanical Interests

Digging: TatTopia garden embraces stonework and sustainability

GardenBook: Flingtastic Colorado- The Gardens on Spring Creek

Digging: Lunch in the garden at Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse

Cottage in the Court: Denver – Garden Bloggers Fling 2019

Digging: Bowled over by Linda Boley’s garden

Bonney Lassie: Stop The Bus, I Need A Wee Wee...

Bonney Lassie: Denver Botanic Garden

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze in Denver…lessons from a cocktail napkin

AZ Plant Lady: Behind the Scenes at Botanical Interests Seed Company

Frau Zinnie: Hanging with my tribe: Why I love to attend the Garden Bloggers Fling

See Jane Dig: The GrowHaus

Central Texas Gardener: Design Philosophy Connects Colorado & Texas

Veg Plotting: The 105th Meridian West

Bonney Lassie: Way Too Much is Just About Right

Digging: Strouse Garden gazes toward the Rockies

Cheyenne Garden Gossip: Rocky gardening

Plant Postings: A Garden Full of Joy and Whimsy

Veg Plotting: Great ideas from the Denver Fling

Digging: Jean Morgan’s garden will make you smile

Bonney Lassie: The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round...

A Growing Obsession: Denver Botanic Gardens #gbfling2019

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze near Denver…tough plants, easy smiles

Digging: Getting seedy at Botanical Interests

A Growing Obsession: that moment with the eremurus and smoke tree in the Shinn garden

Digging: Crevice gardens to crave at the garden of Carol Shinn

Natural Gardening: Recycled paper pots (Botanical Interests)

Garden Rant: Right rock, right place

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze near Denver…art and experimentation
 
Queen of the Dirt: In a daze near Denver…600 tons and what do you get?

Digging: Jan Devore Garden under the pines

Bonney Lassie: Another One Rides The Bus

Danger Garden: Janice and Richard DeVore’s garden, from the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling

The Paintbox Garden: A Garden Embroidered with Myriad Threads

Just a Girl with a Hammer: Diary of a wimpy gardener

Digging: Rocking it at Gardens on Spring Creek

A Growing Obsession: Denver Botanic Gardens #gbfling2019

Queen of the Dirt: More postcards from Denver…

Queen of the Dirt: Postcards from Denver…

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze near Denver…High Plains Environmental Center

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze in Denver…GrowHaus

Queen of the Dirt: In a daze in Denver…morning walkabout

Good Environmental News: Bindweed vs. CobraHead

Danger Garden: Opening night for the 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling, at The GrowHaus

Digging: Welcome to Colorado and High Plains Environmental Center

The Queen of Seaford: Why Fling? Reflections from Denver

Southern Meadows: A Look At Colorado's Wide Open Spaces

The Paintbox Garden: Penstemon Envy

Danger Garden: My 2019 Garden Bloggers Fling plant haul...


Natural Gardening: A great Garden Bloggers Fling

Natural Gardening: Botanical Interests



Veg Plotting: Postcard from Colorado

Garden in a City: 2019 Denver Fling: An Overview



Toronto Gardens: A Constant Object of Desire: Foxtail Lily (Eremurus)


Let's recognize all our 
 First-Time Flingers 
We're so glad you joined us and hope you will keep in touch and make our Bloggers Fling community greater. 

Jack Hemingway (CA) -- The Garden Products Review
Amy Bouck-Knight (CA) -- The Lower Left Corner
Cheryl Spencer (CO)-- Simply Smart Gardening
Jim Tolstrup (CO) – High Plains Environmental Center
Laura Flanders (CO)-- Colorado Backyard Gardener
Luan Akin (CO)-- Tagawa Gardens Blog
Jane Shellenberger (CO)-- The Colorado Gardener
Idelle Fisher (CO)-- Good Environmental News
Donna Waters (CO)-- Pine Brook Hills Gardeners
Maureen Farmer (CT)-- The Farmer's Garden
Shari Wilson (D.C.)-- Nuts for Natives
Sarah Cain (KS)-- Garden Tails
Meg Cowden (MN)-- Seed to Fork
Patricia Cunningham (OR)– plant lust
Joellen Meyeres (TX)-- Gardening Among Friends
Holly Salmon (TX)-- Gardening Among Friends
Tamara Risken (TX)-- J. Berry Nursery
Michelle Olivier (WA)-- Sound Gardener
Barb Gorges (WY)-- Cheyenne Garden Gossip

Monday, June 3, 2019

Reminders


Opening Night: Thursday, June 13

3:30pm to 4:30pm: Stop by our table in the Hyatt hotel lobby, located to the left of the reservation desk, to pick up your ID badge and your swag bag. Wear your badge every day; it is your ticket to board the bus. Buses load this night at 5:30 and return to the hotel at 8:20-8:30.
If you miss the pick-up window, contact Laura or Leigh at the reception and we'll find a time after the reception to get you your things.

The swag bag will contain the tour routes and garden portraits; be sure to find them in the bag to take with you on the bus.

Daily departures and arrivals

Buses board at 8AM EACH morning. 
Friday we expect to be back at the Hyatt between 4:35 and 5:15. (The variance is due to not knowing the traffic conditions on the return from Fort Collins.)
Saturday we plan to be back at the Hyatt about 7:15.
Sunday we'll be back at the Hyatt at 8:20.

Weather forecast as of Tuesday 6/11



Attendance: 85
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Thank you Hyatt Regency Denver for being a supportive partner to our group. They took into consideration a good number of reservations that were made outside of our block to count as credit to our account, so that we can meet our budget! 

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Pat Hayward Garden Open Tour


Keep in mind that this is an after-Fling option, and those signed up are on their own for transportation arrangements. If you signed up, but have changed your mind, please go back to the event and cancel. 


Posts you may want to review:


May 10 - Full Itinerary

April 18 - Transportation to/from airport AND restaurants near hotel


May 24 - Denver area weather, tips on what to bring


Jan 10 - Hotel Info


Jan 9 - Denver highlights


Jan 23 - Beyond Denver Part I

March 15 - Beyond Denver Part II