Yampa Street in high summer: the river running loud on one side, planters and beds spilling over on the other. Plant the Boat LLC keeps green things alive in a place that gives them ten short weeks to prove themselves — planting and tending beds and containers, mowing and trimming lawns, cleaning up in spring and again when the season closes. Everything up here happens in a hurry and then stops, so the trick is having it all peak at the same time. Their days end with hoses coiled, soil dark, and everything standing up straight. In Steamboat Springs, a full planter in August is a small and defiant kind of summer.