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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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Going for Burr Oak

October 14, 2013 Panayoti Kelaidis
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
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Overlooked Alliums

August 16, 2013 Panayoti Kelaidis
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
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Santa Cruz Waterlily - Now in Bloom!

August 13, 2013 Tamara Kilbane
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
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Happy Habitat Hotels

August 2, 2013 Panayoti Kelaidis
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
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Denver Botanic Gardens Loves Pollinators!

June 21, 2013 Ann Montague
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
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Pollination Research

June 19, 2013 Rebecca Hufft, Ph.D.
Pollinators provide critical ecosystem services. Pollinator research is important to better understand the relationships between pollinators and plants and to improve conservation and management of
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Pesticides, Pollinators and IPM

June 19, 2013 Katy Wilcox Wieczorek
In honor of National Pollinator Week (June 17-23), a discussion of pollinators, pests, and how we deal with them seems in order. As gardeners, we are aware of the insect life that surrounds our
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A tale of two gardens....

May 3, 2013 Panayoti Kelaidis
Floral decoration in front of restaurant We shall get to the gardens in a minute--but this is a glimpse of an not unusual scene in the old town of Gothenburg: a tad early for the summer annuals, a
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Hortus paradisi

April 30, 2013 Panayoti Kelaidis
Succulent sculptures at entrance to cactus and succulent greenhouse, Gothenburg botanic garden. The Swedes have a great sense of humor. I have been lucky to visit many of the world's great gardens: I
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Peter Korn's garden

April 28, 2013 Panayoti Kelaidis
Chilean blue crocus (Tecophilaea cyanocrocus) This should get your attention: after flying from Denver to Chicago, Chicago to Copenhagen, Copenhagen to Gothenburg, Sweden--we found ourselves in

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