Horticultural and botanical musings from the Rockies, Great Plains and beyond. In humble tribute to Goddess Flora.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
A summer's stroll: Denver Botanic Gardens July 24, 2013
Agave americana 'Variegata' underplanted with Sedum spurium on the East Terrace
This is the 34th summer I have had the privilege of working at Denver Botanic Gardens. Usually midsummer means doldrums: strangely, this time of year is still wonderful here. This is just a smattering of what you would see if you visited this week...there is a link at the very bottom where you can see even MORE things in motion...The dozens of still pictures were taken on about an hour's stroll--then I had to go back to my office. Or there would have been more!
Ptilotus exaltatus 'Joey'
A wonderful Australian annual not often seen--on the West terrace Nexus berm.
Lilium 'Vern's Beauty' (I think)
Salvia patens
Salvia pachyphylla on Dryland Mesa
Salvia pachyphylla on Dryland Mesa
Salvia pachyphylla and Hesperaloe parviflora on Dryland Mesa
Yucca elata on Dryland Mesa
Sapindus drummondii and sculpture at West Pond
Zinnia grandiflora among cacti on Dryland Mesa
Escobaria vivipara v. radiosa
Agapanthus campanulatus 'Headbourne Hybrid'
Agapanthus campanulatus 'Headbourne Hybrid'
Kniphofia cv.
Dimophotheca cvs.
Containers in South African plaza
Crevice garden at entrance to Rock Alpine Garden--one year old!
Rock Alpine Garden lower meadow
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
Rock Alpine Garden lower meadow
Central crevice garden with Campanula fragilis ssp. cavalinii
Please keep posting regular views there. So nice to see that Denver horticulture is more than bluegrass, riparian lollipop trees, russian sage/karl foerster grass, and midwest worship - maybe more will actually prove that in their work! The crevice gardens there are really cool to look at.
Panayoti, I really wish you would include a second photo of the crevice garden where the plants have been labeled. I am not talented enough the identify all the plants from a photo.
I enjoy the way that you and DBG are making our dry state so lush. In this post, I am particularly in love with the crevice gardens, which are so clever.
Great post!!! I had just visited the garden and did a post on it and a reader recommended I visit your blog and am glad I did! I look forward to your upcoming posts as well!!
I believe that the Eupatorium purpureum is actually Eupatorium(Eutrochium) maculatum. According to the Missouri Botanical Garden and Illinois Wildflowers E.purpureum has green stems and purple only at the base of the leaf petioles. E. maculatum can have solid purple or purple spotted stems. Not sure that this will be read since it was more than two years ago.
More! MORE!
ReplyDeleteAmazing images, plants and gardens ... or, as we are prone to say in England, b....y wonderful!!!
ReplyDeleteSo much eye candy, and so many flovers! What a woderful place.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes weep when I enter the gardens; they are so overwhelming. You and the gardens are a treasure to us all. Thank you for what you are doing.
ReplyDeleteYou are all too sweet! I do feel like a lucky devil...
ReplyDeletePlease keep posting regular views there. So nice to see that Denver horticulture is more than bluegrass, riparian lollipop trees, russian sage/karl foerster grass, and midwest worship - maybe more will actually prove that in their work! The crevice gardens there are really cool to look at.
ReplyDeletePanayoti, I really wish you would include a second photo of the crevice garden where the plants have been labeled. I am not talented enough the identify all the plants from a photo.
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I enjoy the way that you and DBG are making our dry state so lush. In this post, I am particularly in love with the crevice gardens, which are so clever.
ReplyDeleteGreat post!!! I had just visited the garden and did a post on it and a reader recommended I visit your blog and am glad I did! I look forward to your upcoming posts as well!!
ReplyDeleteI believe that the Eupatorium purpureum is actually Eupatorium(Eutrochium) maculatum. According to the Missouri Botanical Garden and Illinois Wildflowers E.purpureum has green stems and purple only at the base of the leaf petioles. E. maculatum can have solid purple or purple spotted stems. Not sure that this will be read since it was more than two years ago.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the correction, Anonymous: I'll change it when I get a chance!
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