About this time each year I start itching to see the first blooms of spring. Thankfully, the Orangery at Denver Botanic Gardens is currently loaded with colorful orchid blossoms. Come visit our Orchid Showcase to help quench your thirst for that burst of spring color.
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If these orchid faces have been delighting you recently as you walk through the balmy Orangery, you’ll want to make a trip to the Gardens this weekend. Next week a new display will be installed in the rotating Orangery planters, and these orchids will return to the greenhouses.
Many visitors to the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory have been asking me, “Where are the orchids?” Well, there are still many around the Boettcher Tropical Conservatory, and in just a few months,
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Leading the ‘Monarchs of Michoacán’ tour for Denver Botanic Gardens, arranged by Reefs to Rockies, I am joined by a group of ten Gardens’ supporters, whose enthusiasm and love for nature and gardening is self-evident. Our first stop of this 6-day tour is the historic city of Morelia in the state of Michoacán in Central Mexico. Under the Spanish influence in the early 1500’s, the city was built in baroque-style, colonial architecture. Dominating the city’s architecture are the Cathedral and the Aqueduct.
Do you miss the beautiful orchid displays from the Cloud Forest Tree? In order to satisfy your orchid fix before the new greenhouse complex is complete and the orchids return to display, come see many of them as preserved specimens in the Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium.
Volunteer Eleanor Von Bargen has worked tirelessly over the last 2 years to carefully preserve over 560 specimens of our orchid collection. Each specimen is carefully chosen to capture optimal flowering by Von Bargen and curator Nick Snakenberg. Many of the orchids retain their original beauty in preserved form creating valuable scientific documentation of what the species look like in flower. These specimens add to the wealth of cultivated plants which have been added to our herbarium collection by volunteers in recent years.
Please visit the Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium to see these beautiful orchid specimens in person.
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