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The Denver Botanic Gardens is a public botanical garden located in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The 23-acre (93,000 m 2 ) park contains a conservatory, a variety of theme gardens and a sunken amphitheater , which hosts various concerts in the summer.
The Gardens welcomed our third bloom in five years of Amorphophallus titanum in 2018, more commonly known as the corpse flower or titan arum. When the flower opened on August 30th it emitted a foul odor for under 48 hours. This odor is a mechanism for the plant to draw in pollinators, including carrion beetles and flies, from as far as a mile away!
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Incorporated February 3, 1951, as the Botanical Gardens Foundation of Denver, DBG was a consolidation of existing horticultural groups. Under the direction of leading nurseryman and naturalist George W. Kelly, DBG initially planned its gardens in the southeast part of City Park. In 1952 Gladys and John Evans II paid local landscape architect ...
Plants are collected from the wild, received through exchanges such as Index Seminum (here is the 2022-2023 Desiderata) and purchased from nurseries and garden centers. Each plant (or group of plants of the same taxon and source) that comes into the Gardens is entered into our database.
May 25, 2020 · May 25, 2020. 3 minute read. Have you ever wondered what plants are native to Colorado and which ones humans introduced? Do you sometimes see flowers on a hike and want to know what they are? Is...
8500 West Deer Creek Canyon Road Littleton, CO 80128 720-865-3500
Explore our gardens that highlight Colorado native plants and ecosystems and learn about the species researchers here at the Gardens are helping to conserve. We work with roughly 70 of the state’s most rare and imperiled plants through surveys, monitoring, genetic studies, and seed collection.
