Posted February 11, 2011 by Lisa Davis, Associate Director of Education
Garden Camps offer kids the perfect opportunity to dig into the world of plants, science and nature for a week. This year’s camps offer opportunities to go behind the scenes and meet the professionals, design and plant a garden, travel back in time and experience life on a working farm, explore trees and forests from around the world and so much more. Whether your child is a budding scientist, a gardener, a chef, an artist, an explorer or an adventurer, every camp offers something right up their alley and will open their eyes to new experiences.
In addition to the popular summer camps at the Gardens, we’re also offering a spring break camp, camp at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield and numerous one day Mini-Camps during school holidays. Our complete offerings include:
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Posted June 4, 2010 by Lisa Davis, Associate Director of Education
Throughout the last week or so, shouts of joy have come from thousands of children across the city as they celebrate the end of school. Now that summer is starting to sink in, some parents may begin to wonder “what am I going to do with them all summer!”
Denver Botanic Gardens has your answer – our week long Garden Camps offer a fun and educational way for kids to spend the summer. Each week we explore new plant and garden related themes with garden explorations, hands-on activities and projects that you can take home.
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Posted January 21, 2010 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
Botany gives gardeners a closer look.
I think botany is neat—fun, surprising, and engaging. While parts of plant biology are counter-intuitive, it’s a marvelous world of interactions. But some people aren’t into botany that way… Rumor has it that some people just want their plants to grow!
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Posted September 28, 2009 by Cindy Newlander, Associate Director of Horticulture
At long last the
High-Altitude Gardener has returned to the Denver Botanic Gardens Web site. This searchable online database features some of the favorite plants of the Gardens’ horticulture staff that are also some of the best plants to grow in this region.
The search interface allows users to type a plants common or scientific name or to select from one or more of ten categories to find plants.
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Posted September 17, 2009 by Gardens Ambassador Volunteer, Visitor Services
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." ~William Shakespeare
Ambassador Jan here! Wanna know a little secret of mine? I actually do not know the names of ALL the plants at Denver Botanic Gardens. That’s right. I’ll give you a minute to get over the shock….
Fact is, there are about 14,500 taxa (differently named species and/or cultivars) at the Gardens. Furthermore, about 3,000 plants are accessioned (acquired for the collections) each year —they may not necessarily be brand-new-to-DBG taxa, though some are.
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Posted September 9, 2009 by Gardens Ambassador Volunteer, Visitor Services
Ambassador Jan here! Without question, one of the greatest gifts that I receive as an Ambassador at Denver Botanic Gardens is the gift of meeting new people and making connections. We, all of us, like this thing whether we know it or not. We like making connections.
Plants are the tao, the way, that the Gardens makes the connection between you and me. They reach right down to our souls, touching us with their beauty.
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Posted September 8, 2009 by Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator & Director of Outreach
Is it agaSTASHee? Aga-stach-ay?
Sunset Hyssop (Agastache rupestris)
is it Aghasta(phlegm)ee, how the heck do we pronounce the darned thing? Even ten years ago most of us would not have known an Agastache from a….from a….
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Posted August 21, 2009 by Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator & Director of Outreach
Reflecting on Darwin's Garden
We think of gardens as a kind of craft or art, aesthetic objects designed for pleasure, contemplation or perhaps for the stimulation of the senses. It could also be argued that the garden is a laboratory where the gardener grapples with chemistry, ecology and the complex workings of biology. After all, it was an apple falling in a garden that set in motion the entire legacy of Newtonian physics.
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