VAIL — Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Director Nicola Ripley was recently awarded the North American Rock Garden Societies Award of Merit. This honor is given to those who have made outstanding ...

Creeping phlox (Phlox subulata) is a perennial ground cover native to the Eastern U.S. It blooms in late spring for three to four weeks, is about five to six inches tall and spreads up to two feet ...

These pretty, low-maintenance rock garden plants make top choices for any well-draining, gravelly spot. Use them to create a colorful rock garden, but these tough plants also work well in gravel ...

When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays. Where: Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Education Center, Ford Park, 522 South Frontage Road, Vail. Cost: Free. More ...

For about 500 years, people have been trying to recreate the alpine environment in their private and public gardens, according to Connor Smith, who was the keynote speaker at the North American Rock ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy.

This is the amazing story of how a Wenatchee family transformed a barren hillside into a nationally acclaimed garden. The photos demonstrate ingenious ways to put natural rock formations, alpine ...

There’s a royal treat in store for local gardeners and plant enthusiasts. Tom Freeth, a top horticulturalist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will be in Durango on July 24 to give a lecture and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A rock garden is a garden, or more often a part of a garden, with a landscaping framework of rocks, stones and gravel, with planting appropriate to this ...

No time to tend a garden? Then Panayoti Kelaidis says you ought to consider a rock garden. An internationally-known plantsman who lectures around the world on rock garden plants, Kelaidis says a rock ...