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Article: FLOWERS ON TRIAL WEATHERING COLORADO CLIMATE IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE.(Spotlight on Home and Gardening)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 25, 1998
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Byline: James E. Klett CSU Cooperative Extension
All petunias are not created equal. Ditto for dianthus, geraniums, marigolds and zinnias.
To help take some of the guesswork out of gardening, researchers at Colorado State University plant hundreds of new varieties every year to find out which ones can handle Colorado's intense summers. Flower trials are held at the W.D. Holley Plant Environmental Research Center, in Fort Collins.
Twenty seed companies participated in the 1997 trials, providing more than 635 varieties of bedding plants. Though the PERC gardens were spared damage from the floodwaters that surged through the CSU campus July 28, ...