FROM LEFT: Senior Horticulturist Ross Shrigley and Horticulture Intern Jacob Heuste plan the Children’s Garden; the Orangery; spring planting.
OUR NEW HEIGHTS:
• Following the major construction projects, the horticulture staff designed and planted: Darlene Radichel Plant Select® Garden, Mordecai Children’s Garden, Sensory Garden, Japanese Garden Gazebo and Greenhouse complex with new Marnie’s Pavilion, Orangery and surrounding outdoor gardens.
• Through our Plant Exploration program, two staff members went on a seed and germplasm collecting trip to Central Asia’s Golden Mountains in Kazakhstan, bordering Mongolia, China and Russian Siberia. This trip was funded by Plant Select®.
• As part of our Summer Sensory program, we offered 24 Horticulture Therapy programs, reaching approximately 237 people on site and serving 19 facilities. The Winter Green program served 41 facilities and 468 participants. Horticulture Therapy outreach served 20 children at the Anchor Center for the Blind.
• The Horticulture Department hosted eight interns from eight different universities. Our horticulture internship program is gaining national recognition; in 2010 we received 48 applications from students at 25 different universities (compared to 18 applicants from 15 universities in 2009).
• The Gardens’ own ‘Grown at the Gardens’ division offered over 11,000 plants repre- senting over 400 species for sale from our collections at the Spring and Fall Plant Sales, as well as the Shop at the Gardens.
• We participated in the City of Denver’s ‘Grow Local’ Campaign. As part of this program, staff designed and installed vegetable gardens in Civic Center Park, Berkeley Park, Highland Park and Highland Gateway.
2010 Denver Botanic Gardens Annual Report
HORTICULTURE STATS 2,148 plant accessions were added to our living collections in 2010.
THE GARDENS’ LIVING PLANT COLLECTIONS STATISTICS FOR 2010: Total plants
Total accessions
31,098 21,932
Number of taxa represented 14,215
Number of species Number of genera Number of families
8,363 2,034 261
• As part of our Index Seminum program, we distributed 547 seed packets to 57 partici- pating organizations. We added 114 new accessions to our collections through Index Seminum and received accessions from 10 different institutions.
• We received an $11,000 grant from the Stanley Smith Horticulture Trust to develop a Web-based interactive plant finder where visitors can access information about our living plant collections online, including maps, images, bloom data and descriptions/ cultural information.
• Denver Botanic Gardens hosted the American Public Gardens Association’s (APGA) Plant Collections Symposium in October. This symposium was attended by 120 national public gardens professionals, including horticulturists, collections curators, plant recorders, research staff and directors. Attendees took away best management practices in collections care and priorities, ex situ conservation and seed banking, plant labeling and databasing, and the role of botanic gardens in climate change.
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