Foxtail Botanic Garden

On Saturday I had the great pleasure of re-visiting the Gardens on Spring Creek, Fort Collin's gem of a botanical garden: there was a lot to see there which would take a half dozen blog posts to share--but I couldn't resist starting with some of their remarkable plantings of Eremurus: several species and many hybrids. I have loved this genus for longer than I care to admit: it gave me enormous pleasure to see these in so many spots around Spring Creek--in their prime early bloom!

These looked like straight E. stenophyllus

More E. stenophyllus

These were at the very entrance to Spring Creek.

Of course, we don't do so bad with Eremurus at Denver Botanic Gardens either--photographed a few days ago in the "grass" display garden--there are grasses in there!