In praise of bad trees...
December 12, 2010
Panayoti Kelaidis
This past fall (as if overnight) a conflagration of spectacular red trees glowed for weeks all over Denver...friends and members of the Gardens would ask me what are those fabulous maples? They are
In praise of bluestems...
December 9, 2010
Panayoti Kelaidis
You would have to be a very strange individual to drive down York street on a sunny morning any time this winter and not notice (or really be stunned) by this amazing planting of little bluestem on
What a difference a month makes!
November 23, 2010
Panayoti Kelaidis
These pictures were all taken exactly one month ago: most years we have a dusting of snow by early October, and light frosts, but this amazing year the autumn wore on and on. But by Thanksgiving
Botanic gardens professionals gather in Denver!
October 16, 2010
Sarada Krishnan
This week Denver Botanic Gardens hosted around 110 botanic gardens professionals from around the country as well as from England and Canada. Hosting the American Public Gardens Association’s (APGA)
Autumnal fire
October 10, 2010
Panayoti Kelaidis
What an amazing autumn! We almost always have had a dusting of snow by now, or light frost. But this fiery summer blazes on, especially in the many spectacular scarlet, crimson and fiery flowers
Kazakhstan remembered
October 5, 2010
Panayoti Kelaidis
I realize it's a tad hard to convince our colleagues that we were hard at work when they see a picture of Mike Bone on a trusty steed, but believe me, riding that horse on the Djabagly Nature Reserve
Plant Select and hummingbirds
September 23, 2010
Panayoti Kelaidis
Who isn't entranced by hummingbirds? This picture was taken and e-mailed to me recently by a visiting nurseryman, Erbin Baumgardner, last month in our new Darlene Radichel Plant Select Garden. You can
So much is happening at our Mordecai Children's Garden!
September 13, 2010
Melissa Gula
Last week was such an exciting week in the Children’s Garden! It was so nice to see so many friends come to visit the new garden. I have been watching the final phases of the Children's Garden
Digger welcomes you to the new Mordecai Children's Garden
August 26, 2010
Melissa Gula
Last Monday, after several years of planning, the Mordecai Children’s Garden had its grand opening. Over the past week, the new Children’s Garden has been filled with the joyful sounds of imagination
Orostachys: living jade for the garden
July 31, 2010
Panayoti Kelaidis
Orostachys iwarenge This time of year there is no end of vibrant, glorious color at Denver Botanic Gardens. May I remind you that green is also a color? Few plants exemplify the paradox that gardens
Sensory Garden Groundbreaking
July 24, 2010
Sarada Krishnan
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Denver Botanic Gardens broke ground for the new Sensory Garden today, a garden created specifically for
Flavors to Savor in the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory
July 20, 2010
Nick Daniel
When it is as hot outside (and inside the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory), as it has been, I tend to find myself eating more ice cream. Last night as I was enjoying a mixed bowl of chocolate