Wildflowers everywhere, just when you need them!

 

Upper Sraight Creek Trail

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Miners Candle

Member Show Call for Entries. The Rocky Mountain Wild! exhibit  for RMSBA members only  this fall remains open for entries at Online Juried Shows. Enjoy a stroll through those alpine meadows to catch the mid- to late-summer blossoms and fruit you’ve been waiting patiently for to refine your drawings of your chosen Colorado wildflowers for this show. The deadline is September 10, so now is the time to face the page and finish your pieces!

Member Meeting at Denver Botanic Gardens at York Street, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, September 19, 2021. We will meet in Freyer-Newman Center, Classroom 1, which is to the left as you enter FNC. Enter through the main doors to the Freyer-Newman Center near the Copper Door Coffee Shop at 11^th Ave & York Street; do not use the public access gates at York & ~10^th. Anyone wanting to visit the Gardens before or after the meeting should book a ticket as usual.

If you have work accepted into the Rocky Mountain Wild! exhibit, drop it off at this meeting; the show will be installed at Garden of the Gods the next day.

Freyer - Newman Center at DBG

ASBA Traveling Exhibit coming next year. ASBA announces that Denver Botanic Gardens will host Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity in Garden, Farm, & Field, the Fourth New York Botanical Garden Triennial. It will be on view in Denver from October 8, 2022 – January 15, 2023. The exhibition will be installed in the Freyer – Newman Center, new home of Denver Botanic Garden’s School of Botanical Art and Illustration. The MotherShip are excited to bring this exhibition to Denver. 

We all have plenty of time to plan. For more information and updates as they become available, see ASBA's website here and Denver Botanic Gardens' website here.

ASBA Annual Conference ONLINE October 13-17, 2021. Registration for ASBA's second virtual conference is now open! For information, visit the ASBA website. To register online, click here. Registration closes at 11 pm Eastern Daylight Time on October 6th. Inexpensive. No transportation or lodging costs… Sign up.

RMSBA’s ZOOM member meeting on July 6 – hosted by Susan Fisher – drew as large an attendance as we ever have had at in-person meetings, and members from afar could join in. We may have to do that again. We had a lovely presentation by Mary Dillon of Kilkenny, Ireland, who was up at 1 am local time to talk with us at 6 pm here. Thanks, Mary. Thanks, Susan.

Caribou Ranch Bouquet

Happy Canada Day Jul 1! Happy US Independence Day Jul 4!

 

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ON-LINE Member Meeting! Tuesday July 6, 6 pm MDT, ZOOM. Susan Fisher will host.  The access link will appear in your email. We will discuss this fall's RMSBA member show. We also will be discussing the plant list for an exciting upcoming multi-year project. We hope you can join us.

Rocky Mountain Wild! Here is a list of 30 wildflower hikes at peak bloom in July.

Check out the new imagery at Our Executive Board, above. We do have a couple vacancies we’d like to fill, and some terms are ending. Volunteer for the Board!

Photosynthesis is the most important process on Earth. For most earthly plants, photosynthesis stops at 104 degrees F; for wheat, central to many culinary cultures, it is 100 degrees. Much of the nation’s wheat, potatoes, and green beans are grown in eastern Washington and Oregon, so I expect lower yields there and in the upper Midwest will generate a rise in prices. Between 1984 and 2017, vegetation cover in desert ecosystems in Southern California decreased by 35%. When grassland cover falls below 20% on the High Plains, winds lift the dry soil into great clouds in dust storms.