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Today marks the summer solstice, and that means summer is officially here!
With the arrival of summer comes an abundance of sunshine, warm temperatures, and maximum daylight hours. It's definitely time to get
outdoors and enjoy a little fun in the sun --- garden fun, that is!
While working in your garden can be lots of fun, gardening has many practical benefits as well. From soothing stress to weight loss to improved mental health, time spent in the garden gives back to us in so many wonderful ways!
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Boost Your Vitamin D Intake Naturally
After a long winter spent indoors, it's positively blissful to get out in the sun and breathe fresh air! One of the secrets that Coloradoans have known for years is that a little sunshine goes a long way towards improving your mood naturally. What's relatively new is the fact that when exposed to the sun, your skin can manufacture its own Vitamin D! The role of Vitamin D – the sunshine vitamin – in keeping bones strong is already well-established. A Colorado summer provides plenty of sunlight to boost vitamin D levels in your body naturally!
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Build Muscle & Lose the Winter Pounds
Those seemingly endless garden tasks like digging, planting, weeding, watering, and mulching all keep you moving, and that's good! Here's a fun fact: just thirty minutes of active gardening can burn up to 280 calories! You can banish weeds and pounds at the same time! Who needs a treadmill when you've got a garden?
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Improve Your Diet
A natural extension of growing your own food is often a change in your diet. After all, when you're growing your own fruits and veggies, it goes without saying you'll be eating them! The freshness and flavor of garden-fresh food is second to none, and it's something every backyard gardener eagerly looks forward to. Fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and corn are the precious rewards of all those hours spent toiling in the garden. Superior taste & quality are just the beginning though. Those humble fruits and vegetables are jam-packed with valuable dietary fiber, and fiber intake is linked to lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and obesity. They're also a source of important vitamins and minerals! That's a lot of bang for your gardening buck!
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Positive effects on mental health
Many people like to get outdoors and dig in the soil because it just makes them feel good. Nowadays, it's a great way to unplug from the ever-present digital devices and de-stress naturally. It's easier to relax and let go of stress while performing repetitive tasks, and gardening provides a lot of repetitive tasks! Recent studies show that what's good for the body is also good for the mind. Working in the garden releases "happy hormones" like dopamine and serotonin - hormones that make us feel good - while at the same time reducing the level of destructive stress hormones like cortisol. While all those gardening chores may be tiring, they're naturally dissipating excess energy and helping us sleep better at night.
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Teaching the next generation
It goes without saying that all kids just naturally enjoy having fun in the dirt! Gardening can indulge that desire in a productive way. Kids are thrilled with unexpected garden surprises like digging up a carrot, radish, or potato!
Involving them in the garden provides invaluable teachable moments in life as well. Planting something and watching it grow will naturally teach children a sense of responsibility. If their first gardening experiences are fun and successful, they're likely to develop a green thumb that will stay with them all their lives. Research suggests that gardening encourages a lifetime of healthy habits, and even boosts children's immune systems! Try growing this year's Halloween pumpkins in the garden. Learning to love growing your own food is a gift that will give back to them for a lifetime!
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The Element of Fun
George Bernard Shaw once famously said: We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. Recent studies have discovered that having fun is not just for kids - it's important at every age. In fact, it's an absolute requirement for good health in general! So, why not add a little fun to your garden? You can bring an element of whimsy with a kinetic sculpture, or wind spinner. You might choose to add an enjoyable glow to summer evenings with colorful solar stakes, or relax while watching birds at play in a birdbath. However you define fun, Echter's has what you need
to bring a little more life to your garden this summer!
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Enjoy homegrown freshness straight from your garden, or grow in pots where space is limited. Mix edibles creatively into sunny areas of ornamental beds for an attractive landscape you can eat! Choose from: berry bushes, small fruits, fruit trees, vegetable plants, herbs, and vegetable seeds.
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25% OFF
Scheurich Cover Pots
High-quality ceramics. Bright, stylish colors. Put a plant with a boring pot inside to dress up a room instantly!
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25% OFF
Tall Garden Phlox
Fragrant, old-fashioned perennial favorite. Long blooming season with showy, domed flower heads. Excellent for borders and for cutting.
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20% OFF
Watering Cans
Terrific selection of sizes, shapes, and colors.
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25% OFF
Decorative Garden Stakes
Terrific selection. From stately to whimsical. Find an accent that suits your taste and decor.
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$7.99
Gro-Rich Garden Soil Mix
Ideal for flower beds and vegetable gardens. Mix with native soil.
100% organic.
1.5 cu. ft. bag. Reg. $9.95
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20% OFF
Coreopsis
Blooms from June to August. Shades of bright yellow to gold to orange. Performs well in the mountains.
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$11.95
Jack's Classic Blossom Booster
The original 10-30-20 formula developed over 40 years ago for professional growers. More flowers and brighter colors. 100% water soluble.
1.5 lb. Reg. $14.95
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Offers good through Sunday, June 30
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Fire up the BBQ in style this Fourth of July with a new Weber, Traeger, or Saber grill! These versatile outdoor cooking stations offer an array of features that make preparing your favorite summer classics easier, and right now you can save on select models! There's never been a better time to experience the thrill of the grill!
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The Suncast Rain Barrel catches and holds up to 50 gallons of rainwater. It's constructed of resin material and is made to last for years. It includes leader and flow hoses as well as a debris filter. It comes ready to use, simply add the hoses and you’re all set.
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Poquito Butter Yellow Hummingbird Mint displays showy dense heads of butter yellow flowers each year from spring to fall. With its low, compact, bushy habit, it works as a great border perennial. It's a great pollinator plant and is drought tolerant once established.
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Record your notes in these charming Karma Notebooks and Notepads. Memory is elusive, so create notes to keep a record of what you don’t want to forget: people, places, plants, as well as gardening problems and achievements.
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- Starmaker Nicotiana
- Weed Out + Lawn Food
- Lemon Scented Geranium
- Mesquite BBQ Wood Chips
- Charlotte's Web Spiderwort
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Coupon
$6.99
Western Red Cedar Mulch
Protect your plants from summer heat and drought. Conserves moisture around plants.
Long lasting. Doesn't wash away.
Big 3 cu. ft. bags. Reg. $9.95
w/coupon only-Offer expires 7/7/19
Valid at Echter's Garden Center only.
Coupons subject to change without notice. Distribution on property prohibited.
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Coupon
Buy 1 Bag of Ladybugs
Get the 2nd Bag for $1
Ladybugs eat aphids and other pests. Perfect for organic gardeners.
Each bag contains over 1500 ladybugs. Store the 2nd bag
in the refrigerator to release later.
Reg. $9.95
w/coupon only-Offer expires 7/7/19
Valid at Echter's Garden Center only.
Coupons subject to change without notice. Distribution on property prohibited.
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Get into deadheading! For more blooms, bigger blooms, and a longer flowering period overall, pinch off (deadhead) the spent blooms as they fade.
Enjoy cut flowers from your garden this summer! Cut flowers for bouquets early in the morning, and place the stems immediately into a bucket of water to keep them fresh until you're able to arrange them.
Keep those roses blooming! Blooming takes a lot of energy! Fertilize your roses regularly throughout their entire growing season for continuous, big, beautiful blooms. We also have rose fertilizer with a systemic insecticide to protect from insects.
Leaving town for some fun in the sun? Water all of your plants (indoors and out) thoroughly before you leave. A outdoor drip irrigation system with an automatic timer will assure that your plants will be watered while you're gone.
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What's in a Name?
Joe Pye Weed
Joe Pye Weed acknowledges Joseph Pye, a Mohegan Indian and herbalist who lived in the late 1700’s near Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He recommended Eupatorium purpurem for the treatment of typhoid fever. It has been known as Joe Pye weed from that time.
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52nd &oGarrison o(5150oGarrison St.) | Map
303-424-7979
Monday-Friday 9:00-8:00 | Saturday 9:00-7:00 | Sunday 9:00-6:00
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