celebrating wildflowers
Imagine a field of color, wildflowers of blues, white and yellow swaths over a sage green field. Look closer and you’ll see magenta and yellow blooms of a small ball cactus, purple blooms of fuzzy spring ephemerals and other fleeting blooms. What could be better than walking through a field of wildflowers? What if we could offer you a guide to teach you all about the natural beauty of colorful Colorado?
The third week of May is National Wildflower Awareness Week! Denver Botanic Gardens offers you glimpses of Colorado’s splendor year round.
Kids can celebrate with us in one of the following ways:
- Celebrating Wildflower Week Discovery Days - Kindergarten to 3rd grade students can visit activity stations and complete self-guided explorations and observations in our native plant gardens. Enhance your knowledge of basic plant structure and function, while discovering Colorado’s wildflowers. May 18-22, 2009, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. daily Pre-registration is required. Call 720-865-3580 to reserve a spot for your class. Volunteers are needed to facilitate activity stations. If interested in volunteering, call 720-865-3537.
- Coloring Books - Pick up a coloring book for your kids at the Information Desk.
Free Wildflower Hike
- Join us for a moderate one-hour hike on Green Mountain to learn about native wildflowers, including sand lilies, Easter daisies, locoweed, paintbrush and many others. We will also point out some surprising noxious weeds! There will be wildflower posters, coloring books and a lead hike of the wildflowers.
- Hike starts at 10 a.m. rain or shine from the parking lot on the north side of Alameda at the intersection with West Florida Drive. Take 6th Ave to Simms/Union, turn south to Alameda. Turn west on Alameda to the parking lot just west of Ohio. Wear sensible shoes, sunscreen, and bring drinking water.
Date and Time:
Saturday, May 16, 10 a.m.
RSVP or Questions:
Call 720-865-3630
Download the 2008 Celebrating Wildflowers coloring book.
Download the 2009 Celebrating Wildflowers coloring book.
Visit the National Park Service for more information.
