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 July 12, 2010 by Anna Sher, Adjunct Research & Conservation Researcher
Denver Botanic Gardens and University of Denver (DU) are currently collaborating to conduct research that documents climate change effects on native flora in Colorado. We have been using preserved specimens from the Gardens Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium and other regional herbaria to determine if flowering time has changed over the last 100 years. A preserved plant with reliable label data is proof positive that it existed in a specific place at a specific time in the state it is shown. Such specimens show that some Colorado species were blooming on average as much as three weeks later 100 years ago than today– a reflection of warming temperatures that are causing earlier springs.
Amelia Bowman, ‘09 University of Denver (DU) graduate, first discovered this trend investigating a set of six early blooming species that were collected in Colorado
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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 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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Posted July 10, 2009 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
Dr. Karen Chin delivered a great talk last night at the Gardens. She is the Curator of Paleontology and an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. One of her areas of expertise is coprolites: fossilized feces. I have to admit that I thought that part of the appeal of the talk was that dinosaur dung is exactly what appeals to our inner grossed-out juveniles. Dr. Chin did not disappoint, delivering puns, double-entendres and low humor that was still all science. I learned things about dinosaurs, ancient plants, wood, paleontology, coprolites, and, yes, dung, both ancient and modern.
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