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Annual Flower Trials

trial gardensCome view the Annual Flower Trials conducted by the Colorado State University Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture in Fort Collins. The trial garden consists of over twelve hundred varieties from many different plant/seed companies. Many of these new varieties will become available to growers in future years. This year, all varieties are planted at a very visible site west of the Center for the Arts, located at the southeast corner of the CSU campus at 1401 Remington Street.trial gardens

This site also features over 600 containers of mainly vegetatively-propagated plant material. Colorado State University is an official test site for All America Selections.

annualsPlan to visit the side-by-side comparisons of new bedding plant varieties with standards. The best viewing time is late July through killing frost.

For more information, see the following Colorado State University Extension resource(s):

For more information, see the following Planttalk Colorado™ script(s).


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Updated Friday, April 19, 2013