Podophyllum emodi
Anyone who grew up in the Midwest knows the modest, nodding May Apple (Podophyllum peltatum) ubiquitous in the woods there. I suspect that not one in twenty visitors
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David Salman of High Country Gardens
David Salman has plenty to keep him busy. There are plants to tend, businesses to run, articles and blogs to write (and if you read his blog, there’s a rescued puppy named Jarrah who’s always ready to play), and certainly an appreciative audience anywhere there are gardeners in the west. We are so fortunate to have him join us in Denver for “Inspired by Mountains and Plains: Redefining the Well-Adapted Regional Garden” Friday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m.
Its a story familiar to anyone whose left lush gardens behind to move into the west: rocky mountain gardening is profoundly different. While many mail order nurseries can send you a plant across the country, their experiences and catalogue descriptions aren’t usually calibrated for a mile high and western dry. David Salman started High Country Gardens to be the mail order division of Santa Fe Greenhouses, his retail nursery company in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He tapped in to a desire for plants appropriate to western climates. And it seems he’s quite good at it.
Colors
A couple days ago, a visitor asked me, “So, when will the flowers be out?” I gave her my friendliest look of polite confusion; to my eyes there are flowers all over the place! She continued,
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In today’s modern world, one would think that the advent of technology like computers, scanners, and digital files would reduce our production of waste in the world. And in many ways, it has. However, the more technologically advanced we’ve become, it becomes more obvious that the waste we produce isn’t going anywhere quickly.
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This Sunday’s Denver Post highlighted the great concerts/sounds around town for the 2010 summer concert season. Most of the concerts scheduled at York Street and at Chatfield are highlighted. Ricardo Baca, Denver Post Music Critic, highlights the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield shows — The Elect the Dead Symphony with Serj Tankian and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and Garrison Keillor’s Summer of Love Tour — as two of his top picks for the summer.
There is no better place in Denver to see music than at Denver Botanic Gardens York Street facility and at our newest venue at Chatfield. There are still tickets available for most shows and can be purchased on the Gardens’ website. Tickets are now available to the general public for purchase. Come spend an evening with us in either grass-covered amphitheater and listen to some of the most highly anticipated concert artists of the summer.
Visiting another garden is the best way to garner new
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I can tell gardening season is here, not just by the brilliant sunshine, the gardeners eager to get started, the students jumping into classes that they’ll use next week, the plant sale and the shoppers, or the colleague rashly vowing to start his peppers outdoors this weekend in spite of frost warnings at his altitude. Rocky Mountain Gardening has some element of risk and unpredictability after all (last nights low in Denver was close enough to freezing to inspire a protective measures for all the plant sale plants). No, its the sequence of plants blooming, and the patterns of temperatures, and the reactions people make that confirms it all to me. Spring sprang already, and now’s the time to get into gardens, landscapes and yards.
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Yes, by all means, come to the Plant Sale today and tomorrow, for a huge and amazing selection of irresistable goodies to pop into your garden. But if you want a treat of a completely different stripe,
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