If you can make space for a miniature rock garden — one of tiny plants growing within the confines of a faux-stone trough — the promise of an outsize payoff awaits. Inside the walls of a trough, you ...

Alpine plants are the jewels of the plant world. Beautiful but small, these plants grow best in a habitat that most resembles their native one. Most are at home nestled between rocky crags. No rocky ...

Where: Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Education Center, Vail. When: Monday, June 5, 11 a.m. Cost: $5 suggested donation. More information: Visit http://www ...

THERE’S NO BETTER time to create your own tiny, perfect world than when the real world feels like it’s out of control. Unsurprisingly, alpine troughs are having a moment. Designed to look like ...

Miniature worlds — snow globes or Lego villages — wield a special kind of magic. They lure you into a mesmerizing universe where everything feels right and where you, the all-powerful creator, get to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At Denver Botanic Gardens, Wildflower Treasures is neither as splashy as the water-lily pond nor as refined as the Japanese garden. The sun-soaked hardscape ...

Many gardeners, myself included, often bemoan the fact that we do not have enough ground to grow all the varieties of plants known to the kingdom. I have found, however, big rewards in cultivating ...

The urban location of this much-admired plantsman's garden - close to Alresford town centre - makes it all the more astonishing. The extensive collection of alpines includes the National Collection of ...