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gardening help

We have answers to your gardening and garden questions! Colorado Master Gardeners are available to answer questions: 

Gardening Help Schedule
(Noon to 4 p.m. on the following days)

  • York Street Free Days
  • March, April, Oct. and Nov.: Tuesday and Saturday
  • May, June, July, Aug. and Sept.: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
  • Jan., Feb. and Dec.: every other Tuesday

Access our experts the following ways:

In person: At the Gardens' Helen Fowler Library
By phone: 720-865-3575
By e-mail: gardeninghelp@botanicgardens.org

Gardening Help is a joint program of Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners and Denver Botanic Gardens.
 

high-altitude gardener

Planting a garden this spring?
We know that gardening can be
challenging given Denver
and Colorado’s high
altitude. Denver
Botanic Gardens has
created a database of plants
that thrive in our climate. And you can post your own photos!

Search the database

what's blooming?

See the Gardens now!
Winter is a wonderful time to visit the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory. And purple Iris reticulata are blooming outside next to brilliant yellow crocuses--a sure sign of  spring approaching. See highlights of what's blooming in March

York Street has a new café!
Visit Offshoots for
breakfast, lunch
or an afternoon
snack. Enjoy a
latte, surf the
Web via free Wi-Fi
(compliments of Qwest Communications), work remotely and relax in one of the cushy chairs or at the laptop bar that looks out on vistas of gardens.
More details on Offshoots