Botanical art class
Senior Curator and Director of Outreach Panayoti Kelaidis sells copies of “Flourish” during a member-only night.
OUR TRANSFORMATION:
• Senior Curator and Director of Outreach, Panayoti Kelaidis, received the American Horticultural Society’s Liberty Hyde Bailey award for lifetime achievement – one of the highest honors in American horticulture.
• The Gardens partnered with Broomfield-based Botanical Interests to create a new line of seed that included 16 wildflowers, many of which are native to the Rockies and Great Plains. Students in the Gardens’ Botanical Illustration program created the signature botanical artwork featured on the packets. Demand for the new line, which launched in the spring, outstripped expectations.
• The Membership Department distributed more than 250 complimentary memberships supporting the community and providing expanded Gardens access.
• The Gardens managed 16 horticulture therapy programs as part of our Sensory Program, offering transformational plant experiences to more than 150 people onsite at 13 facilities. The Gardens’ horticulture therapy outreach served 30 people with developmental disabilities at Easter Seals Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Village Summer Camp.
• Horticulture staff designed and installed a vegetable garden in Civic Center Park as part of the city of Denver’s “Grow Local” campaign. Staff also installed a container display on the 16th Street Mall, between Lawrence and Larimer streets, in collaboration with the Downtown Denver Partnership.
2009 Denver Botanic Gardens Annual Report
• The Gardens was actively engaged in social media outreach during the year. Denver Botanic Gardens’ Facebook page attracted 1,275 fans from 37 countries in 2009, and Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield’s page attracted 282 fans from six countries. The Gardens also has more than 1,200 followers on Twitter, and we added 14 new videos to our YouTube channel at
www.youtube.com/DenverBotanicGardens (our videos received more than 36,000 views in 2009). The Gardens’ website at
www.botanicgardens.org attracted 2.7 million page views during the year, and our blog (
www.botanicgardensblog.com) attracted 39,000 page views from 118 countries. More than 70 percent of those page views were new visitors.
• The Gardens’ Botanical Art & Illustration program also hosted a blog at
http://www.botanicalillustration.blogspot.com. The blog received 40,674 visits from 126 different countries in 2009. Nearly 10 percent of visitors to the blog returned more than 201 times. The BI program Facebook page attracted 184 fans from 20 different countries.
• The BI program launched a collaborative exchange program with El Charco del Ingenio in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The Gardens’ BI instructors led classes there that were focused on watercolor and botanical landscapes.
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