SpringisintheairinCheyenneastheCheyenne
Botanic Gardens rev up for another intense but
all-too-short summer season.
In the conservatory,
spring fever begins in February as the stained-glass
show opens.
The conservatory fills with stained glass
panels...
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SpringisintheairinCheyenneastheCheyenne
Botanic Gardens rev up for another intense but
all-too-short summer season.
In the conservatory,
spring fever begins in February as the stained-glass
show opens.
The conservatory fills with stained glass
panels surrounded by fragrant flowering plants.
A
slew of visitors brave the cold to enjoy images of elk
and roses, eagles and roadsters.
As a horticulturist at
the gardens, I quietly plant the first of next summer’s
seedlings with the help of our many volunteers.
Winter is a quiet time, when only the hardiest
tourists walk the grounds or even make it inside
to enjoy the lush warmth of the solar-heated and
solar-powered conservatory/greenhouses.
As the
wind begins to subside, and the ground thaws, we
prep the flower and vegetable beds and plant this
Staffed mostly by
volunteers, the
Cheyenne Botanic
Gardens are the
pride of this
Wyoming city
Sue Whetten
year’s new trees and shrubs.
Fifty thousand bedding
plants, mostly annual flowers, are
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