Summer is here in the Alpine areas of Colorado! If you are out exploring these newly snow-free peaks, keep an eye out for some of the spectacular Alpine plants in bloom, including moss campion (Silene ...

The Alpine Garden is a broad plateau, high above the treeline on the eastern shoulder of Mout Washington. You can visit it this spring without having to climb to more than 4,000 feet.For $65, you can ...

Common Mistakes to Avoid: Assuming the garden is only worth visiting during peak bloom. Visitors in autumn and even ...

A lover of wildflowers, my mother is 85 and has never set foot in an alpine flower garden, until this week.She never hiked, though she has loved to walk the flat, forested trails of New Hampshire for ...

Rockies AlpineFlower Finder – a remarkable new mobile field guide Swiss made – The whole family will enjoy this informative and easy to use app. Hiking and camping trips are both quintessential ...

Glacier buttercup, Ranunculus glacialis, in front of the Rutor glacier, Italy. (Photo courtesy G. Losapio and co-authors) Scientists studying the effects of glacial melt say a quarter of alpine flower ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I grow plants from anywhere, but garden somewhere. The heart of my somewhere is a pair of raised, slightly ...

NATIVE TO ROCKY PEAKS seasonally covered in snow, alpine plants shrug off blazing sun, extreme cold, strong wind and poor soil — hardly the cushy conditions found in a home garden. “You’re trying to ...

This summer, undergraduate students Max Wasser and Grace Kendziorski are spending time hiking in the mountains—and trapping pikas and counting flowers. CU Boulder student Grace Kendziorski studies the ...

‘Escalator to extinction’ means aggressive species will eventually take over, threatening the entire mountain ecosystem Alpine flowers could go extinct after glaciers disappear as more competitive ...

High up on a mountain where winds are too fierce, temperatures too extreme and soils too poor for trees, some of the most unusual plants on Earth grow. In this harsh alpine zone where shade is scarce, ...