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Home Depot Spring Plant Sale
Bees go to boondocks on an Iceland poppy at the Loveland Home Depot March 30. (Susan Clotfelter, The Denver Post)
Have you got garden agitation yet? C’mon, everybody’s got garden fever.
Home Depot does. The behemothic home, tool, lumber, etcetera bazaar is captivation a Spring Black Friday auction today, April 4, through April 10, with sales that include:
-Buy one, get one on berry packets;-Three discounted models of mowers;-2 for 1 annuals;-Bonnie cast vegetables and herbs, 5 for $10 (they’re usually about three bucks a pop).
There are additionally grills, a trimmer, a wet-dry vac, a patio dining set, Miracle-Gro garden soil, mulch, paint, and abounding added markdowns. And yes, everybody loves to back-bite the big-box food (I’ve done it, you’ve done it). But about everybody additionally goes there – hopefully while additionally acknowledging their bounded absolute garden centers.
I’ve noticed article at my own Home Depot’s garden department: They’re accepting smarter about alms bulb varieties that assignment for Colorado. Last weekend, for example, the aboriginal weekend that absolutely arrive planting, they had 4-packs of violas, which are annuals, but additionally an comestible assemble that will self-seed accustomed bisected a chance. They’ll absolve off a late-spring snow. They had pincushion flowers. (Yes, they additionally had blueberries, which crave a lot of fussing over clay because they like an acerbic soil, and Colorado’s soils are mostly alkaline. But I accept there are bodies out there who like an acute agronomical challenge. I’m aloof not one of them.) Last year, the abundance in my boondocks additionally had some acceptable conifer choices for Colorado.
Wherever you boutique – big-box, bounded garden centermost or your admired nonprofit or plant-society auction – it’s activity to be a abundant weekend to dig, weed, and about be in the yarden in Colorado. It’ll be in the 60s, partly cloudy, not too abundant wind. Get out there. The bees are calling.
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