Cultivating Crops and Curiosity at the Community Garden
October 24, 2024
Horticulture Department
In the foothills of Colorado where I live, growing a vegetable garden with the intent of eating any of the harvest for yourself would make you an optimist. That is unless you had installed a sturdy
Why DNA? Inside the Genetics Laboratory
March 11, 2022
Andrew Wilson
The opening of the Freyer – Newman Center in 2020 provided Denver Botanic Gardens with numerous new spaces such as classrooms, art galleries and library. Another new space is the genetics laboratory
The Horticulture Interns Have Arrived
June 6, 2017
Kevin Williams
Every year Denver Botanic Garden's Horticulture Department welcomes a handful of exceptional horticulture students from across the country to study with us in a project-based, 10-week internship. Each
Horticulture Internships at the Gardens
January 20, 2011
Ann Montague
Each summer college students from across the country descend on Denver Botanic Gardens to participate in our summer horticulture internship program. And even though there’s still snow on the ground
Water garden curator Joe Tomocik plants waterlilies with the interns
July 1, 2010
Horticulture Department
It is no secret in horticulture and gardening that plants need water and who knows this better than Joe Tomocik, curator of water gardens, whose waterlilies hardly spend a day out of it. Once the