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Young Siberian larch ( Larix sibirica) You have probably walked by this willowy sapling many times--although I suspect if it were not in fall color, you would have walked by it barely noticing it

Asian dogwood ( Cornus kousa) "Asian dogwood? Surely photographed in Oregon, or perhaps New Jersey?" Nope--taken at Denver Botanic Gardens last June. There are several specimens--this one in the Rock

Transformation at Chatfield Take a moment and ask yourself, when is the last time you visited Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield? Do you and your family go to Chatfield once a year for the Pumpkin

I know you have a few bulbs you picked up at the Gardens fall sale still lurking in your porch! Or perhaps you have altogether forgotten and assume that since Thanksgiving is fast approaching it's too late to plant bulbs? In a few months when gems like this are blooming in your neighbor's garden (or mine, which is where I took this picture) you will experience great remorse: "Why oh why didn't I plant a few more bulbs?"

Scott Skogerboe and mystery maple... Everyone should have a hero. Scott Skogerboe has always been one of mine: Head of propagation at Fort Collins Nursery Wholesale, he and his boss, Gary Epstein have

Random sampling of Burr Oak Leaves Our spring may have been the worst I can ever remember, but fall is shaping up to be extraordinary. Yesterday, towards the end of the amazing Pumpkin Festival at

Allium 'Millenium' Diane Reavis, one of our long time Plant Select committee members, observed that "we don't do a lot with the summer Alliums at Denver Botanic Gardens" as the committee strolled

It isn't often that I linger at work until after the sun sets. Tonight is an exception. This evening, our Victoria cruziana plants (also known by the common name of Santa Cruz Waterilies) are coming

Birds and Bees' hotel One of the things that struck me on my recent visits to Europe were that every botanic garden I visited seemed to have a structure designed to attract beneficial insects--a sort

The new mine structure at the Children's Garden A great proportion of the visitors to our York St. gardens have never even visited the Children's garden: perhaps they're afraid they are over the

Yucca rostrata in Yuccarama There are certain floral spectacles through the gardening year at Denver Botanic Gardens that are not to be missed: when the foxtail lilies ( Eremurus) are all in bloom

This week we’ve taken a few minutes from our busy schedules to consider pollinators and all they do for us and our environment. An earlier post advocated creating a pollinator-friendly habitat around