Denver Life Magazine – April 2019

atlas made in colorado

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BOTANICAL INTERESTS,

BASED IN BROOMFIELD,

HAS BEEN PROVIDING TOP-

QUALITY SEED (AND SAGE

ADVICE, TOO) TO LOCAL

GARDENERS FOR 24 YEARS.

BY AMANDA BONNER

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ardening is a family thing

for Judy Seaborn and her

husband, Curtis Jones. “My

grandparents were big gar-

deners, and my mom loved gardening,”

says Seaborn. “I’d go to Pop’s house and

he’d show me how to split irises, which

I thought was a miracle. My grand-

mother showed me how to take cuttings

from geraniums, and that was so cool.”

Jones didn’t grow up gardening, but he

studied agriculture and earned his mas-

ter’s in plant pathology. The two met

while working for growers, and in 1995

started their Broomfield-based seed

SO MANY VARIETIES, SO LITTLE TIME “I’M A BIT OF A PLANT GEEK,” SAYS OWNER JUDY SEABORN. business, Botanical Interests.