April may be the cruelest month for poets, but March is torture for gardeners. You can’t plant your posies yet, but at least you can make plans for fabulous flower beds with these gardening must-haves.
Sowing good karma with organic seeds
Go organic with flower and vegetable seeds that are harvested from plants grown without pesticides, chemical fertilizers or genetically modified organisms. $2.49-$19 A PACK. CITY FLORAL IN DENVER OR SEEDSOFCHANGE.COM
Narrow spaces, broad potential
If your garden is your patio, you can still have a floral fantasia with windowboxes. $155-$185. SMITH & HAWKEN, CHERRY CREEK NORTH
Membership has its privileges: plant sale
The Denver Botanic Gardens offers 23 acres of gardening ideas in the heart of the city, a native plant refuge at Chatfield in Littleton and a high-altitude trail on Mount Goliath. But the best reason to buy a garden membership is to get first dibs at the annual plant sale, May 12-13, which features an extravaganza of exotic blooms, including cuttings from plants grown in the gardens. $40-$10,000. BOTANICGARDENS.ORG or 720-865-3525
Time to trake the soil
Why lug a bucket of gardening accessories around when you have a trake, which combines a trowel and rake into one handy tool. $16.95. CLEANAIRGARDENING.COM
Roses tough enough for Colorado
Anyone who has ever tried to grow an English rose in Colorado clay will appreciate the 220 varieties of cold-hardy, root roses offered at Harlequin’s Gardens in Boulder. $15-$30
