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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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Horticulture Internships at the Gardens

January 20, 2011 Ann Montague
Each summer college students from across the country descend on Denver Botanic Gardens to participate in our summer horticulture internship program. And even though there’s still snow on the ground
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In praise of bad trees...

December 12, 2010 Panayoti Kelaidis
This past fall (as if overnight) a conflagration of spectacular red trees glowed for weeks all over Denver...friends and members of the Gardens would ask me what are those fabulous maples? They are
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In praise of bluestems...

December 9, 2010 Panayoti Kelaidis
You would have to be a very strange individual to drive down York street on a sunny morning any time this winter and not notice (or really be stunned) by this amazing planting of little bluestem on
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What a difference a month makes!

November 23, 2010 Panayoti Kelaidis
These pictures were all taken exactly one month ago: most years we have a dusting of snow by early October, and light frosts, but this amazing year the autumn wore on and on. But by Thanksgiving
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Botanic gardens professionals gather in Denver!

October 16, 2010 Sarada Krishnan
This week Denver Botanic Gardens hosted around 110 botanic gardens professionals from around the country as well as from England and Canada. Hosting the American Public Gardens Association’s (APGA)
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Autumnal fire

October 10, 2010 Panayoti Kelaidis
What an amazing autumn! We almost always have had a dusting of snow by now, or light frost. But this fiery summer blazes on, especially in the many spectacular scarlet, crimson and fiery flowers
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Kazakhstan remembered

October 5, 2010 Panayoti Kelaidis
I realize it's a tad hard to convince our colleagues that we were hard at work when they see a picture of Mike Bone on a trusty steed, but believe me, riding that horse on the Djabagly Nature Reserve
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Plant Select and hummingbirds

September 23, 2010 Panayoti Kelaidis
Who isn't entranced by hummingbirds? This picture was taken and e-mailed to me recently by a visiting nurseryman, Erbin Baumgardner, last month in our new Darlene Radichel Plant Select Garden. You can
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Orostachys: living jade for the garden

July 31, 2010 Panayoti Kelaidis
Orostachys iwarenge This time of year there is no end of vibrant, glorious color at Denver Botanic Gardens. May I remind you that green is also a color? Few plants exemplify the paradox that gardens
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Sensory Garden Groundbreaking

July 24, 2010 Sarada Krishnan
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Denver Botanic Gardens broke ground for the new Sensory Garden today, a garden created specifically for

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