Posted March 30, 2009 by Joe Tomocik, Aquatic Collection Curator
A prolonged warm spell created an opportunity that an alert Operations Team was quick to exploit–completing minor pool repairs and sweeping our larger pools squeaky clean.
Four Community Service workers did a splendid job in removing the mulch from the waterlilies in the upper pool. Following suit was the ever-loyal Colorado Water Gardening Society (CWGS). The energetic volunteers came in for two Sundays cleaning the waterlilies in the Monet Pool and setting them in place.
Following suit was the talented and committed Denver Botanic Gardens’ Horticulture staff which (with a touch of flare) quickly and efficiently had the south end of the pool spic-and-span.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 17, 2009, water flowed into the Gardens’ pools, nearly four weeks ahead of schedule. Visitors can now walk our storied gardens enjoying the dramatic deep reflections and soothing sounds of our classical waterways.
Posted March 25, 2009 by Cindy Tejral Newlander, Plant Records Manager
Pieris japonica
With the move of the gatehouse, you can now see a garden that rarely gets exposure, what we have tagged the north bed of the Picnic Garden.
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Posted March 23, 2009 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
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Colorado Landscape in Early Spring
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Wildflowers enliven natural landscapes.
I’ve been watching the quiet declaration of drought conditions with an eye more curious than fearful. The US drought monitor classifies the current conditions as moderate drought, or D1, which is pretty low on the scale. The gardeners around me, however, range from “not on my weather radar” indifference to head-shaking, ground-staring, “I knew this day would come” pessimism. It would make a fascinating study of human personality, I think, but also, I wonder if it reflects their gardening interest.
For me, transplanted easterner that I am, I don’t yet know what to make of it. Do I water obsessively or give up on anything the wet side of Opuntia? The gardeners whose gardens I admire most do neither–or at least, neither is their priority. Instead, they live within the landscape, the nature that underlies the urban landscape of Metro Denver. They pay attention to structures, winds, hollows, moist pockets and a sense of the biota that surrounds them. The ecology of the space does not escape them, even when they attempt to bend or defy it.
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Posted March 22, 2009 by Ellen Hertzman, Manager of Visitor Experience
It’s March, and my gardening year has begun! I’ve planted seeds for lettuces, spinach, and scallions, and put in my baby onions to get fat. Some people have luck with peas, but they’ve never worked for me, between our instant summer weather that is just too much for them, and the birds who love the fresh shoots. Still, I plant them
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Posted March 20, 2009 by Doris Boardman, Web Technology Manager
Iris reticulata by Scott Dressel-Martin
Although it has felt like spring for weeks in Denver and temperatures have been steadily above average, spring has officially arrived at the Gardens. Time for new growth and more change.
The same is happening at this very moment just outside the Gardens’ gates–the old Gatehouse on York Street is almost entirely demolished. These photos, taken yesterday by Scott, show some ceremonial sledgehammer swings at
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Posted March 17, 2009 by Doris Boardman, Web Technology Manager
Euphorbia polychroma ‘Candy’ – Cushion spurge
Posted March 3, 2009 by Cindy Tejral Newlander, Plant Records Manager
Eranthis hyemalis blooming in Shady Lane on Feb. 25, 2009
The Gardens are quickly springing back to life with the 70+ degree days. I was wondering what was blooming across the rest of the country, so I contacted a few colleagues across the nation to see how their gardens were waking up in comparison to Denver Botanic Gardens.
Denver Botanic Gardens currently has many species of plants in full bloom or just beginning to bloom. Galanthus elwesii (snowdrops), Crocus sp. and cvs., Iris reticulata and its various cultivars, Cornus mas (Cornelian cherry), Eranthis hyemalis (winter aconite) and Helleborus sp. are all blooming. This morning I witnessed some of the magnolias (M. stellata and M. x soulangeana) starting to burst from their buds in the Waring House garden as well where they grow in a sunny spot against a south facing wall.
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