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Enjoy "Digging Into the Gardens" blog, written by Denver Botanic Gardens' staff. Learn about gardening, horticulture, research, conservation, special events, art, tours and much more. 

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Love herbs? Add this book to your kitchen

August 17, 2022 Tiffany Coleman

Denver Botanic Gardens Guild is an organization centered around herbs. The group staffs the Herbs Division at Spring Plant Sale, provides support in the York Street and Chatfield Farms herb gardens

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July Walking Tour – Mariposa Urban Farm

July 11, 2022 Jason De Pecol

As cities become an increasingly popular place to live for many, the importance of green spaces becomes even more relevant. Gardens and urban farms provide city-dwellers with a space to connect with

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The Queerness of Nature

June 18, 2021 Angela Naumov

Queer /kwir/ differing in some way from what is usual or normal of, relating to, or being a person whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual and/or whose gender identity is not cisgender Those who

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It’s Hooting Season!

February 15, 2021 Featured Instructor

Great horned owls have been spotted at the Plains Conservation Center! As days begin to lengthen, Colorado’s earliest nesters start to court each other. Most birds wouldn't think of breeding just as

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A Good Seed Can Be Hard to Find

October 15, 2018 Alex Seglias
Plant biodiversity is being lost at an accelerated rate as a result of climate change, habitat degradation and multiple other factors. To conserve native plant species, many institutions are turning
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Visit Mount Goliath

June 27, 2018 Karina Nabors
Have you heard of the old man of the mountain? Well, if you go up to Mount Goliath, you will encounter an alpine plant with that name (Hymenoxys grandiflora, Old-Man-of-the-Mountain) that might remind
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Sedges have edges . . .

October 30, 2017 Christina Alba
. . . and extreme ecological importance in high-elevation wetlands. It’s likely that at some point, you have been out for a stroll and admired a pretty grass fanning gently in the wind…or maybe it was
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Autumn at Denver Botanic Gardens

October 1, 2016 Brian Vogt
We all have favorite seasons. Mine has always been autumn, probably because it’s the time of year I wish would last twice as long. Everything seems mature in the plant world and determined to go out

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