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ABOUT US

Our Approach

 

All of our plants are grown from cuttings or wild collected seed. We utilize soilless media for all of our plant material to ensure a disease and pest free product. Our nursery is inspected regularly by the Colorado Department of Agriculture, Nursery Division. In addition we participate in the Japanese Beetle Trapping Program and maintain current certification.

ABOUT FARMER HART

About Our Nursery

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.

Our Plant Selections

At Colorado Hardy Plants, we take care in selecting which plants we choose to propagate and grow. We stand by our name and do our best to select plants that are hardy and restorative.

All of our plants are either native to Colorado, the Rocky Mountains, or have similar properties to those that are, making our entire stock viable in full sun conditions, high UV, extremes in temperature throughout the year, less than ideal soil conditions, and low water usage once established.

Most importantly we have chosen our plants because they can take the abuse that Mother Nature or their gardeners may throw at them. Our plants and shrubs continue to be sought after by large and small conservation organizations for restoration projects.

Farmer Jeremy Hart

Hart grew up surrounded by the natural beauty of the Oregon coast and northern New Mexico, but has called Colorado home since the early 2000s. An avid hiker and lover of nature, Hart’s green thumb developed early, starting his nursery career in middle school by mowing lawns and later working at a tree farm. People often ask how he knows so much about plants, but for him, it’s always been second nature. Today, he thrives working with his beloved “nursery shadow,” Maggie (the dog), and his wife, Michele, on the western slopes of Colorado. He continues his passion for cultivating drought-tolerant and native plants that help restore, revive, and enhance once bare areas.

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