Visit Our 2 HIGH COUNTRY GARDENS stores in the Albuquerque area:
• San Mateo (6400 San Mateo at I-25)
• Bernalillo ( 834 Hwy 550)
Our retail garden centers feature exclusive, waterwise, locally grown and regionally adapted perennials, shrubs, trees, vines, ornamental grasses, cacti, native lawns, soil and garden products, garden decor, and much much more!
Our staff are gardening experts who are ready to answer your questions and help you create a beautiful, waterwise garden. Shop our convenient locations in your area!
505.867.8585
www.hcgstores.com
At Santa Fe Greenhouses, we have over plants to explore on our 5-acre oasis including hardy perennials, ornamental grasses, trees and shrubs, ground covers, cacti and succulents. Stroll our peaceful garden paths and charming greenhouses to discover our many unique and interesting plants. Learn what it takes to grow a beautiful and successful waterwise garden. Call us toll-free at 1-877-811-2700 for more information or for directions.
View directions and Map here.
See the plants in our demonstration gardens in our High Country Gardens Online Catalog.
A visit to our Xeric Demonstration Garden will open up a world of landscaping ideas to you. Learn how perennials, shrubs, conifers, cacti and succulents, and ornamental grasses can be planted side-by-side to create a a lush waterwise garden.
 A new spin on grandma's old fashioned pleasure garden, our Western Cottage Garden proves that lushness really can be designed with drought tolerant plants.
Now in its tenth growing season since its initial planting, our Cold-Hardy Mediterranean Garden is another popular MGA Green Thumb Award winners located in our Xeric Demonstration garden.
Agastache: Our most Popular Plants!
 You can't help but notice the Agastache plants (Hummingbird Mint or Hyssop) flourishing in our demonstration gardens. A favorite of our President and Founder, David Salman, Agastache are a showy, fragrant group of perennial herbs. The greatest concentration of Agastache species is found in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, with the remaining species found scattered across the U.S., Europe and Asia. All of them have nectar rich flowers.
The orange and pink-flowered ones are highly attractive to hummingbirds, while the blue-flowered ones are a favorite of butterflies and bees. If you grow lavender and penstemon successfully, you will enjoy growing Agastache as well.
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2010 SPRING GARDENING
SEMINAR SERIES
Plant Together: Food, Flowers and Fun
Begins Saturday, January 9, at 2pm
Admission for each seminar is $7.50 per person and each attendee will get a $5.00 coupon for use in the store.
 A pass for all seven seminars is available for a discounted price of $35.00 and you will receive a free $5 store coupon for each seminar. Place your order online and we will have your Seminar pass and store coupons ready for you to pick up at the first seminar on January 9, 2010. Passes will not be mailed.
Purchase Individual Seminar Passes Below
Seminar Schedule
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1/9/2010 @ 2pm, Xeriscaping is Green: Integrating Food, Flowers and Environmentally Responsible Landscaping
Presented by David Salman, President & Chief Horticulturist, Santa Fe Greenhouses
Purchase a Ticket Online for this Seminar
Learn how you can be an eco-contributor with "green" xeriscaping. Discover the essential connections in your garden and landscape between plant diversity, pollinators, growing food and living soils that create the web of life. This talk will provide practical information for creating a water thrifty landscape that provides food, beauty and enjoyment in an environmentally friendly fashion. |
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1/16/2010 @ 2pm, Designing Integrity: Natives and Edibles as Foundation Plants
Presented by Christie Green, Landscape Designer and Proprietress of Down to Earth, LLC
Purchase a Ticket Online for this Seminar
Christie Green will engage participants in the landscape design process with particular attention to incorporating native and edible plant species as resilient, useful foundation plantings for all garden types and sizes. Ecological integrity and ingenuity inform Christie's designs; she will share suggestions for approaching the landscape with fresh creativity. |
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1/23/2010 @ 2pm, Vegetable Gardening Basics
Presented by Jim Sais –Horticultural Consultant and Co-host of NM Gardentalk on KKOB Radio on Saturdays
Purchase a Ticket Online for this Seminar
Growing a vegetable garden is healthful, cost effective and rewarding. One of New Mexico’s favorite gardening teachers will discuss designing and planning your veggie garden from seed choices to tried and true care and planting techniques. |
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1/30/2010 @ 2pm, Building your Soil Naturally
Presented by Greg Birkenfeld, President of Soil Mender
Purchase a Ticket Online for this Seminar
The foundation of every garden is healthy, living soil. Learn about adding natural and organic soil amendments to develop rich and fertile soil. Start your garden right with Greg's down and dirty soil secrets and reap the benefits! |
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2/6/2010 @ 2pm, Junque Yards: Creative Gardening with Found Objects
Presented by Scott Calhoun, Author and Landscape Designer
Purchase a Ticket Online for this Seminar
Join award winning gardening author Scott Calhoun as he shares his creative ideas on how to repurpose found objects and use them in your landscape. Back by popular demand, Scott’s humor, excellent photography and innovative sense of design will entertain and inspire you to have fun in your garden. A book signing following his talk. |
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2/13/2010 @ 2pm, Grow Your Own Fruit
Presented by Ron Walser, Fruit specialist, NMSU’s Agricultural Science Center at Los Lunas
Purchase a Ticket Online for this Seminar
Ron will share his 35 years of experience and knowledge in researching and organically growing fruits and berry plants as the urban small farm specialist. Attendees will come away with knowledge of the best techniques and fruit varieties for Northern New Mexico. |
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2/20/2010 @ 10am & 2pm, Water Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
Presented by Brad Lancaster, Author/Designer/Consultant
Purchase a Ticket Online for this Seminar
In his best-selling, award-winning books, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Brad Lancaster encourages us to turn water scarcity into water abundance by welcoming rainwater, storm water runoff, and grey water into our lives, landscape, and soil. Sharing techniques and strategies from around the world, some ancient, some new, from the home scale to the neighborhood and community scale, readers are empowered to create their own integrated water-sustainable landscape plans, and implement them. |
All seminars will be held on Saturday, at 2pm at Santa Fe Greenhouses, 2904 Rufina St.
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Santa Fe Greenhouses, Inc., a full-service retail greenhouse and tree nursery, invites you to join with us in presenting our 20th Annual Spring Gardening Seminar Series, beginning Saturday, January 9, 2010, and concluding Saturday, February 20, 2010. The seven-part seminar series entitled “Plant Together: Food, Flowers and Fun,” will focus on the best practices for gardening in New Mexico. Topics will range from planning your landscape to soil amendment, plant selection and water harvesting. Our speakers are renowned experts in their fields, and all share a passion for gardening in the desert southwest.
For more information call 505-473-2700
toll-free at 1-877-811-2700 info@santafegreenhouses.com
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