Garden Destination: The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, Vail, Colorado Home Interior Renovation

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Garden Destination: The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, Vail, Colorado

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I suppose now is a good time to tell you….I’m away — I’m in Colorado.

Have you ever seen the movie City Slickers? One of my favorite movie lines is at the end where they come back from their big adventure and Billy Crystal points to the smile on his face (when greeting his wife at the airport) and says “Hey, look what I found!” and his wife asks where he found that. And then he says “Colorado! Isn’t it always in the last place you look?”

I know I am being all hometown sentimental, but Of course Colorado!!

I am actually writing this post early (as I have written all the posts that will go live here over the next couple weeks). Sprinkled in I also have some friends sharing some of their knowledge and expertise. I hope you enjoy yourselves while I enjoy a family glamping (yes, I plan to be a spectacle of glam camp comfort and style) trip through CO, NM, AZ and UT.

**Oh and don’t get any crazy ideas (if you happen to be a dastardly robber who wants to make a mark of my house while I am away) the activity around here will be quite large as I have given over my veg garden to the care, maintenance and picking pleasure of a wide range of local friends and neighbors. They will be in and out at all hours and they all know each other and they don’t know you. I trust that they have my back. Plus someone is living in our house while we are gone — someone who is actually going to be here more regularly that even we are. So no funny business.

Back to the post at hand….The Betty Ford Alpine Garden in Vail, Colorado. It is the world’s highest botanical garden at an elevation of 8,250 ft. It is a beautiful place and I am looking forward to making a stop myself as we expect to be in the area. Betty Ford is perhaps better known for many other worthy contributions that she has made to our society but this garden is certainly the prettiest.

I love this quote from her:

“When I was a little girl, I spent many cherished hours with my mother in her garden, She wisely marked off an area for my very own plants. As we worked together, she nurtured me as she nurtured my love of gardening. This nurturing mother-daughter relationship, with its love growing strong in a garden, has been passed along to my daughter, Susan, and her two girls.”

That was passed to me in much that same way as I hope I pass it to my children.

If you are interested in alpine and high altitude plants, this is a great resource, otherwise, make a visit just to enjoy a unique and beautiful Colorado garden and some spectacular scenery.