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| 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!
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| 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!
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
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
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
Digging: A garden for relaxing with friends
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
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
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...
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…a praire meadow
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...
Digging: Jan Devore Garden under the pines
Bonney Lassie: Another One Rides The Bus
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...
Ravenscourt Gardens: An Amazing Xeric and Native Plant Garden in Colorado
Natural Gardening: A great Garden Bloggers Fling
Natural Gardening: Botanical Interests
Natural Gardening: Garden Bloggers Fling — a special experience
Natural Gardening: Wonderful rock gardens and unfamiliar plants
Veg Plotting: Postcard from Colorado
Garden in a City: 2019 Denver Fling: An Overview
Garden Rant: A Suburbitat in Colorado
Danger Garden: Wednesday Vignette, crevice garden heaven
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
Jan Bujan (IL)-- In the Garden with Grandma
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