The CSU garden is complete with signage, and ready to help educate consumers!  One garden, devoted to new, and smart plant choices highlights the Plant Select program, and shows a few of the new winners from the 2014 CSU annuals trials.  The benefit of these plant choices are that they are proven by research to not only survive, but thrive in Colorado’s tough landscape environment with minimal inputs.  These beautiful perennials and annuals will be in your local garden center this spring.  Our good/poor landscape management choices gardens include research-based recommendations for proper homeowner care of turf and and other landscape plants.  The plant diversity quadrant focuses on showcasing beautiful alternative tree choices to ash.  And, what we expect to be one of the most popular garden quadrants contains a wealth of information gathered from the Colorado Department of Agriculture and CSU about the current threat of the Emerald Ash Borer to our urban and suburban forests.  20 Master Gardeners and CSU staff worked 2.5 long days installing the garden to showcase the educational themes.  Be sure and visit the Colorado Garden and Home Show running from February 7-15, 2015 at the Colorado Convention Center.  Your garden will thank you!