Thursday, Sept. 17 from 7-10 p.m.
Featuring art and music by: Noisefold, Equulei, offthesky, Tess, Movax, Bryan Leister, Daniel McGlynn, Chrissy Espinoza, Acre Collective and David Fodel, Sarah Soriano and Leo Kacenjar.
This is the second year that local and national artists and musicians will come to Denver Botanic Gardens to present their explorations of the intersection of the digital and natural worlds.
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A. thaliana, the quintessential research plant
Every gardener visiting a nursery knows what they’re looking for based on a basic distinction: annuals or perennials. What if the categories weren’t so clear? Scientists have discovered that it is just two genes that determine whether a plant is annual or perennial.
The distinction between annuals and perennials is based on reproductive strategy. Generally, annuals tend to germinate, grow, and flower quickly to produce seeds that will be the carriers of DNA into the next generation – DNA is what it’s all about! Perennials, on the other hand, have a variety of life strategies. They usually survive from year to year, harboring their DNA all the while, often able to set seed and survive to bloom again.
Scientists at VIB- a non-profit scientific research organization, have discovered that
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Thursday, Oct. 9 from 7-10 p.m.
Featuring art and music by:
David Fodel. Normal Ones. Natascha Seideneck & Rebecca Dolan. Cacheflowe. Corey Scott & Dafe Hughes. h.dot and little dove. Ten and Tracer.
Video created for Addictive TV Mixmasters Series, 2003
Music by David Fodel
This year’s Urban Nature theme has been rich fodder for discussion of the interaction of the urban and natural worlds. This Thursday evening, Oct. 9, the Gardens’ Education Department presents Digital Nature–a program that extends the annual theme to address the intersection of the natural and digital worlds. These worlds needn’t be mutually exclusive, and many digital artists
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And I love them all, truly I do. Even the parasitic ones that, left unchecked, would eventually take over our beloved Plains Garden. I am fascinated by all the weird extremes of natural selection- slime molds, corn smuts, flowers that smell like carrion and parasitic plants all find their way to me. My friends in horticulture know that in college I studied plants much like this particular weirdo- the parasitic plant dodder (Cuscuta sp.).
I’m sorry the picture doesn’t convey its incredibly insidious destructive nature… it’s curled around the stem of one of our favorite natives, a Rocky Mountain beeplant. The dodder started its life as
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To protect the innocent, I must omit the name of the involved party, in this case, a plant. A beautiful temptress of a plant. I was compelled to pull it close to my face to take a deep sniff of a gorgeous bloom. Alas, like so many beauties, there was no scent. But getting that close allowed me to see a glistening drop of nectar at the flower’s center, I just knew it was nectar – not as well as a butterfly, a bee, or a bird knows instinctively, but the temptation of the droplet was suddenly meant for me and my inner pollinator.
I turned to my companion and said “I really want to lick that flower, and
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