One of the neat things about Denver is the Botanic Gardens (no idea though why it’s not botanical. Budget cuts?). For me, there’s a flora that I’m not very familiar with. The Botanic Gardens also have a very nice landscape that meshes with the artwork. So onto some nice looking stuff. First, Lady’s Bedstraw (Gallium verum):

Some of the nice sculpture I mentioned:

No, I didn’t Instagram this–this is what it really looked like:


(the trees are Shrubby Plumbago, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides)

An urn full of catci:

More sculpture:

Ancient ruins. Or something:

Another nice vista:

A Mediterranean vista:

Some spruce:

Some Verconia:

Jovibarba in rocks:

Wildflowers:

Entrance to the Japanese Garden:

Ponderosa pine sculpted into bonsai–the whole garden smells very piney:

A serene view:

Unintentional zen:

The Story of a Pike Peaker, 1925:

Silver cholla:

The ‘Dark Knight’ variety of the prickly pear cactus (at bottom):