Colorado Hardy Plants nursery is located on the western side of Colorado at an elevation of 6,340’. We have hot and mostly dry summers with low humidity, mild Fall weather, Winters that can dip below 0 degrees with snow lingering on the ground for many weeks at a time, and Springs here that can be unsettled with big temperature swings and plenty of wind.
Our nursery site is approximately 1 acre in size and includes a greenhouse for propagation and overwintering cuttings, 3 hoop-houses where the plants spend their time growing and maturing under the Colorado sun, an irrigation pond, and a shop where I package up the plants for shipping once they are sold.
I propagate our plants by taking semi-hard wood cutting from our 300 cutting stock plants growing on our nursery and by seed. Some of the seed is locally collected, while other seeds I purchase from nearby states. Once the seedlings and cuttings are transplanted from flats into their own little pots and leave the greenhouse in the Spring, they are moved to our hoop-houses where they spend their time growing and maturing.