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With our outdoor perennials area is loaded with lots of
new plants for the gardening season ahead, it's an ideal
time to think about creating or adding to perennial
beds! These versatile, enduring plants are an easy way
to enjoy a low-maintenance garden that brings beauty to
your outdoor spaces year after year.
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What are Perennials?
They are
lower-maintenance, long-lived plants that provide
beautiful foliage and flowers that return year after
year or perennially! With careful planning, perennials
can provide your landscape with color and interest
throughout the entire growing season. When you plant
perennials, you're not just creating a garden for one
season you're building a space that evolves over time.
There is a seemingly limitless variety of perennials
plants to choose from, so you can achieve a variety of
colors, textures, and bloom times in each season. By
layering plants with different bloom times, you can
create a garden that is always in a state of change and
varied beauty. Our
Plant Finder Tool makes it easier to explore and
find more information on the many perennial plants we
carry.
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Perennials for Colorado Gardens
For Colorado gardeners, there are plenty of
perennials favorites that will happily thrive in our
climate. Hardy sun-loving bloomers like penstemon,
coneflower, and blanket flower will provide
vibrantly-colored blooms, yet they're still tough enough
to withstand
Colorado's dry spells!
For shady areas, hosta and columbine will add splashes
of color and texture.
Ornamental grasses like blue fescue and little
bluestem will provide year-round interest with their
graceful foliage. They're also drought-tolerant, once
they're established. Incorporating these resilient
perennials into your garden ensures a sustainable and
beautiful landscape for years to come. Come explore
our outdoor perennials area, and start
creating your own low-maintenance perennial garden!
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When is it safe to plant? It's a popular question
at this time of year! If you're unsure about a plant,
check out our
Frost Hardiness Page for an extensive list of
perennials, annuals, and vegetables and when it is safe
to plant them
in
our local areas.
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We have many styles of red, brown, and white clay pots.
Many sizes are also available in the classic beauty of
standard
and azalea-styled red
clay.
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25% Off
Walkabouts
Tough, yet easy-to-grow groundcovers you can walk on.
Perfect between stepping stones and between your toes.
They reduce weeds and give areas a finished appearance.
6 packs (6 x 73 mL
pots)
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20% Off
Dahlia Bulbs
Terrific selection of colors,
types and sizes of packaged dahlia bulbs.
Blooms up to 10" across.
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20% Off
Flowering
Crabapple Trees
This ornamental favorite has
spreading branches with either red, pink or white
blossoms in
early spring.
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20% Off
Mints
Fast growing and spreading herbs. Plant in a pot or in
the ground where there is room for them to spread.
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$26.95
FoxFarm
Ocean Forest
Potting Soil
This powerhouse blend of premium
earthworm castings, bat guano, fish and crab meal is the
ultimate potting soil. Perfect for containers.
1.5 cu. ft. Reg. $32.95
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$5.99
Snapdragons
Choose tall and narrow plants or
short and mounding ones. Cold hardy colorful annuals.
6 x 73 mL pots Reg. $7.99
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20% Off
Fairy Garden Accessories
You'll be delighted with our displays. Hundreds of tiny
items to choose from for many styles of miniature
gardens and terrariums. Everything a fairy needs to
enjoy life in your home or garden!
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20% Off Irises
A favorite perennial with exotic flowers and dramatic
spiked-shaped foliage. Irises have lower water
requirements. Some new varieties will rebloom.
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Offers good through Thursday, May 1
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Whether you're just starting out with veggies, battling
Japanese beetles, or getting ready to tackle drip
irrigation, these free classes are a great way to learn,
ask questions, and get inspired. They're all free, and
no registration is required.
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10:00-11:30
Vegetable
Gardening 101
If you are new to gardening and want to get started,
this is the class for you. Gay will cover all the
details and get you
off and growing.
Presented by:
Gay Bechir, Echter's Annual Specialist
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1:00-2:00
Japanese Beetle Management for the Home Gardener
Practical advice on how to combat and control the damage
from Japanese beetles.
Presented by:
Lisa Mason, Arapahoe County CSU Extension Agent
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3:00-4:00
Don't be Afraid
of Drip Irrigation
If you're not sure where to start, this class will put
you on the path forward with the basic nuts and bolts of
how to plan and proceed with your project with
confidence.
Presented
by:
Griff Wirth,
Echter's Hard Goods Specialist
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Spice Baby Viburnum, displays fragrant spring
blooms and has an attractive compact habit. It's a smart
shrub choice for smaller landscapes.
It provides a spicy, intoxicating spring fragrance.
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Blue Prelude Catmint is a long-lived, easy to
care for, deer and rabbit-resistant perennial. It
flourishes in full sun to partial shade and well-drained
soil. Trim back spent flowers to encourage more blooms.
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Magic Carpet Yellow Mecardonia is a tough,
durable, low-growing plant that is loaded with a
continuous supply of bright yellow flowers all season
long. It is well suited for use in annual beds,
hanging baskets or
mixed containers.
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We'd
like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all who joined
us for our
Gal's Night Out Evening of Hope
event! Were thrilled to share that it was our
most successful event yet, with a record number of
tickets sold!
Thanks to your generous support, we were able to raise
over $18,000 for
Hope House of Colorado!
Your
generosity & enthusiasm made it a truly special evening
for everyone! We're grateful that you chose to join us
in coming together to support
our local community.
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Coupon
Buy 2 Get 1 FREE
Ornamental Grasses
Nice selection of
heights, colors, shapes
and sizes. Use them to add a graceful
motion
to the garden. Mix or match,
least expensive is
free.
w/coupon only
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Offer expires 5/8/25
Cannot be combined with any other offer.
Valid at Echter's Garden Center
only. Coupons subject to change without
notice.
Distribution on property prohibited.
Click for Printable Coupon
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Coupon
$16.95
Propane
Tank Fill-Up
Just in time for
the outdoor cooking season. Fill your
empty 20 lb. tank. Keep a full spare on
hand in case you run out unexpectedly.
Limit 2 fill-ups w/coupon. Reg. $21.95
w/coupon only
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Offer expires 5/8/25
Cannot be combined with any other offer.
Valid at Echter's Garden Center only.
Coupons subject to change without
notice. Distribution on property
prohibited.
Click for Printable Coupon
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An easy way to harden off plants that are going
outdoors is to cover them with
Plant & Seed Guard
for a few days after you plant them. You can use wire
supports if necessary to hold the fabric away from the
plants. Attach it to the ground with landscape staples.
April is a good time to seed or overseed lawns.
Use a good grass seed and apply
New Lawn Starter
fertilizer after the seed is sown. Keep the area moist
even after germination. Do not apply a pre-emergent
crabgrass control before or after seeding, as this will
prevent grass seed germination.
It's spring cleaning season even for birds! If
you haven't cleaned your bird houses this year, clean
them out and then spray them with a bird feeder cleaner
before the new birds arrive. Continue feeding the birds
at your feeders. Seed-producing plants are just
beginning to grow and there are now more birds competing
for the depleted wild seed supply. Give them a supply of
water also.
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