mordecai children's garden

This garden will bring families together to explore, enjoy and learn in freely interpreted alpine, riparian and grassland habitats. This garden will open in 2010.

Mordecai Children's Garden

See some amazing architectural renderings of the future Mordecai Children's Garden.

Janet Mordecai founded the Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation. It was their joint wish that the Foundation enhance the quality of life for all, and offer those less fortunate the opportunity to improve their lives.

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!

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