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San Juans - NARGS
The San Juan Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society
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Edge of the Rockies 2021
Annual General Meeting of the
NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY
Our outdoor-oriented celebration of plants, people and places extends a warm welcome to the 170 folks coming! And a huge thanks to all the volunteers.
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A Remarkable Setting
Durango lies not only at the edge of the San Juan Mountains (the most massive range of the Colorado Rockies) but at the edge of the Colorado Plateau’s rich canyonlands, and it brushes against the Chihuahuan Desert uplands of New Mexico to the south and east. Mesa Verde rises to the south and west — a blue-gray mesa filled with the largest, densest concentration of Pre-Columbian architecture north of Mexico. In many ways, Durango is the heart of North America.
A Place in the Sky
We convene on the campus of Fort Lewis College, which sits on a lofty terrace overlooking the town of Durango and the verdant Animas River valley. At 6,872 feet (2095 meters) in elevation, the venue is surrounded by mountains and mesas, with the spectacular tall peaks of the San Juan Mountains beckoning to the north.
Aquilegia caerulea
Hymenoxys grandiflora with variable checkerspot butterflies (Euphydryas chalcedona).
Corydalis caseana subsp. brandegeei
Phlox caryophylla
Townsendia glabella
Ranunculus adoneus