Posted June 14, 2010 by Larry Vickerman, Director of Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield
It’s mid-June and the numerous wildflowers at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield are just coming into full bloom. The Gaillardia, several different Penstemon, and Spiderwort are in full bloom just east of the big red and white barn. The Paintbrush have been spectacular this year and are still blooming. The barn area is the most diverse and will be colorful into September. The big planting on the north face of the amphitheater is just starting to bloom.
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Posted June 10, 2010 by Larry Vickerman, Director of Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield
We received a large amount of publicity over the past weekend about a rattlesnake biting a young man on the heel last Friday. I wanted to assure our visitors that this is a very rare event at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield. We have been open to the public for more than 20 years, and this is the first time a visitor has been bitten. Fortunately, the young man is well on his way to making a full recovery.
Here are a couple of things to know about snakes at Chatfield: We have several species beside rattlesnake. The bull snake is common out here.
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Posted May 21, 2010 by Doris Boardman, Web Technology Manager
Denver Botanic Gardens and Kaiser Permanente have created a first-of-its-kind community supporting agriculture (CSA) program. The community farm will provide fresh local produce to Colorado families.
Made possible through a three-year, $500,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente, the CSA will operate as a community farm at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield—located at C-470 and Wadsworth Blvd. in Littleton. Shares of the CSA are sold to members of the public who then receive portions of the garden’s fresh produce during the harvest season, from June through October.
This new venture marks an important milestone: The Gardens is the first botanical garden in the country to operate a CSA program of this scale.
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Posted May 10, 2010 by Robin Doerr, Director of Marketing, P.R. and Special Events
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.
Posted May 7, 2010 by Ellen Hertzman, Manager of Visitor Experience
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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Posted April 30, 2010 by Sarah Spearman, Education Sales Coordinator
Photo Courtesy Scott Dressel-Martin
On the southern edge of the Denver metro area lies a broad expanse of beautiful landscape called the Chatfield Basin. Here, the Rocky Mountains meet the High Plains, and southern deserts meet northern boreal forests. In addition to its aesthetic beauty,
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Posted February 16, 2010 by Doris Boardman, Web Technology Manager
A new decade brings more exciting transformation–to the Gardens, to our Botanic Buzz
e-newsletter (sign up here to receive your copy), and soon, to our Web site. How do you like our new blog design?
We have so many authors from all parts of the Gardens (click on the “More Authors” link in the right column under “authors” to see all of our most recent bloggers) that we wanted to make it even easier for you to learn some of our points of view about Denver Botanic Gardens and Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield by navigating through our new blog layout. I’ll be posting photos of our authors soon so you can see who we are.
Continue to enjoy our blog and these topics:
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Posted February 1, 2010 by Robin Doerr, Director of Marketing, P.R. and Special Events
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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