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.
Oh dear…I am longing for spring. It is that time of year when it is just beginning to warm up – but not enough to discard the coat and hat just yet. I have been looking for anything that will remind me that warmer weather, buds on trees and spring blooms are a mere month or so away. My wish was granted when I walked into Denver Botanic Gardens’ retail store, Shop at the Gardens. Hundreds of new items that bring on the flavor of springtime are appearing daily on the floor of the store. A french-style gazebo holds charming, robin’s egg blue plates and mugs, glimmering blue glass bud vases and fresh, flowering plants in popular Wolff flower pots. Many of the hundreds of items are well under $25. It is worth a peek to move you toward “getting your springtime on.” Stop by and remember there is plenty of free parking and no admission is required to visit Shop at the Gardens. Horray for spring!
Henry Moore Sculpture Exhibit at Denver Botanic Gardens
Henry Moore is here. As a marketer and pr professional at the Gardens, my first thought was “Who Is Henry Moore?” when I first understood the exhibit would be arriving in 2010. I knew the name. I majored in art in college but have drifted away from some of my art history roots over the years.
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Denver Botanic Gardens is pleased to announce that Swallow Hill Music Association is its new concert promotions partner for the booking and production of all Denver Botanic Gardens concerts, commencing in the 2010 season. This new partnership reflects recent changes in the Gardens’ strategy and direction, including a desire to better align itself with organizations that have a similar brand and common goals. The Gardens and Swallow Hill Music are a perfect match. Both organizations are well-known, respected nonprofits in Denver that serve a wide cross-section of the community with engaging educational programming. They are also committed to presenting the very best in regional and national musical entertainment to their patrons.
Swallow Hill Music promotes more than 200 concerts per year at its 71 E. Yale Ave. venue and other venues across the metro area, including the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Their focus on genres that include roots, folk and acoustic music is a perfect fit for the Gardens’ concert venues and serves similar audiences. As SCFD-funded organizations that complement each other, the Gardens and Swallow Hill Music are committed to building a collaborative, long-lasting relationship that assists with fulfilling each organization’s mission.
We are excited about the partnership and look forward to a great 2010 concert season! Welcome Swallow Hill Music!
Swallow Hill Flowers
The Pumpkin Festival is rescheduled to next weekend - Saturday, October 17 and Sunday, October 18.
Denver Botanic Gardens loves Mother Nature. We’re a living museum, after all, that thrives on the attention that Mother Nature provides. However, due to forecasts that call for cold, rain and…gasp…possibly even snow this weekend, we are rescheduling our annual Pumpkin Fest at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield that was on the calendar for this weekend. The festival has been rescheduled to next weekend, Saturday, October 17 and Sunday, October 18.
Volunteers please consider volunteering for your same shift next weekend. Our volunteer services department will be contacting you to talk about rescheduling.
Make that change to your calendar and plan on joining us next weekend where the long-term forecast says temperatures will be in the 60’s and sunny!
Yet another BRAND NEW experience is waiting for you at Denver Botanic Gardens. DBG has opened a new gift shop, Shop at the Gardens. The entire gift shop was re-designed from the ground up to offer our visitors the most sustainable, creative, unique garden and gift products in Denver. Come shop an extensive collection of gifts and toys for children, unique jewelry, garden and cook books, apparel, affordable gifts made from the most cutting-edge sustainable materials and packaging, plants and other items sure to be found nowhere else in Denver. Plus, you give back to the Gardens when you shop with us. Proceeds from the gift shop help fund Gardens’ programming for the community.
Chuck McGlothlin (above), is the shop manager and buyer. He and his very capable staff are here to help you select just the right gift for yourself, someone you love or for your home!
Shop at the Gardens is open year-round during regular Gardens hours and is located in the new Bonfils-Stanton Visitor Center. Admission to the Shop at the Gardens and all parking is free. We’ll not only offer you the most unique gifts in the City of Denver, we’ll make it easy for you to shop with us as well.
Think all-natural gifts.
Think plants and gardening supplies.
Think affordable, relevant offerings.
Shop over 10,000 items that have been personally selected by our staff to reflect the Gardens’ core values of sustainability, transformation, diversity and relevance. Look forward to seeing you soon.
Check out the NEW Offshoots Cafe at Denver Botanic Gardens
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Offshoots, the new cafe at Denver Botanic Gardens, opened on Friday, July 3rd. Offshoots is an outstanding culinary destination for anyone looking for a variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner fare in the midst of Denver’s most beautiful backyard. In the morning, select a variety of freshly made breakfast burritos, pastries, stuffed breakfast croissants or Offshoots already famous homemade pop-tarts. Lunch and dinner provides a variety of paninis, salads, soups and sandwiches all made with fresh, organic ingredients that are obtained as locally as possible reflecting the Gardens’ core value of sustainability. Offshoots also has a full service coffee bar and with free WiFi throughout the cafe. Enjoy a latte, surf the Web, work remotely and relax in one of the cushy chairs or at the laptop bar in front of a window that looks out on vistas of gardens or inside our Conservatory. Lots of vegetarian items are available. The Gardens has never looked more beautiful than it does now. C’mon over and treat yourself to the beauty of nature at it’s finest and have a “treat” in Denver’s newest hotspot!
Spring Plant Sale volunteers pricing plants!
Annuals never looked so good with this volunteer team organizing them!
Volunteers stocking the herb division
It’s hard to count the number of staff and volunteers setting up for this spring’s Denver Botanic Gardens Plant Sale. Right now, almost 90,000 plants are being identified, priced, delivered and presented for the Spring Plant Sale “opening day” – this Friday, May 8th at 10 a.m. (members shop early from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.). It takes more than a village – approximately 500 people – to bring the best plants for this region to the Denver community. Plus, there will be dozens of plant experts on-hand to answer virtually any questions you have about selection and planting of thousands of different varieties. Check out a list of the plants being sold at this year’s Spring Plant Sale.
And thank you to the 500+ staff and volunteers who are making this year’s sale the best ever.
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