FROM LEFT: Planting Mordecai Children’s Garden; Senior Curator and Director of Outreach Panayoti Kelaidis at the annual Green Roofs for the West Symposium.
OUR NEW HEIGHTS:
• Construction was completed on Mordecai Children’s Garden. While our contractors did the large building, Denver Botanic Gardens staff worked furiously to ready the Children’s Garden for a late-summer opening.
• The Operations Department transplanted numerous full-grown trees from Chatfield into Mordecai Children’s Garden. The staff also transplanted one rather large tree from the green house construction area into the Children’s Garden. Though it was a grand undertaking, the inclusion of mature trees made the Children’s Garden immediately welcoming.
• In preparation for the Children’s Garden, Gardens staff, along with volunteers, participated in a massive effort to fill the garden with plants for kids to explore.
• Operations worked to complete the Greenhouse Complex; all systems had to be installed and calibrated, and plants were transported from their temporary homes at other greenhouses.
• The Gardens renovated the construction staging area adjacent to the north parking lot into a pocket park for neighbors to enjoy. A new fence was installed around the grassy park.
• Senior Curator and Director of Outreach Panayoti Kelaidis and Mike Bone, curator of the steppe collection, traveled 3000 miles through Kazakhstan in August and September,
2010 Denver Botanic Gardens Annual Report
collecting 660 accessions of wild plants (representing approximately 10% of Kazakhstan’s flora) for study at the Gardens at the behest of Plant Select®.
• Denver Botanic Gardens hosted the first meeting of regional public garden directors to collaborate and network with the common goal of promoting public horticulture. The Gardens also continued to host the annual Green Roofs for the West Symposium.
• The Gardens cosponsored the North American Rock Garden Society annual meeting in Salida, Colorado in July. Several hundred participants from all over the world participated in discussion and field trips throughout the Rockies.
• The Gardens continued its outreach to a broad audience by enhancing its social media engagement. More than 7,000 fans on Facebook and nearly 3,000 Twitter followers are informed of the ever-increasing public offerings at the Gardens.
• The Denver Botanic Gardens-designed Civic Center Parterre Garden was declared one of only five “showcase” gardens at the Plant Select® annual meeting.
• Panayoti Kelaidis designed and helped install an extensive bulb and groundcover garden in front of Greenwood Elementary School in Montbello, Denver. Students, parents and staff helped plant thousands of bulbs and plants donated by the Gardens and regional nurseries.
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