Monday, October 22, 2012

Denver Botanic Garden

I visited the Denver Botanic Garden yesterday. It has a fantastic conservatory with one of the best rainforest displays of any garden I've ever visited (including Kew and the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers).

There was also a bonsai collection, a Japanese tea garden, herb and prairie gardens, a scripture garden and an amphitheater. Unfortunately I only had my phone with me to take pictures.
a Passionflower with many purple filaments
Passiflora sp aff alata

Red Phragmipedium orchid growing in a rocky nook
Phragmipedium Memoria Dick Clements 
Three purple Thunbergia vine flowers
Thunbergia grandiflora

Brown, purple and yellow Miltonia flowers
Some kind of Miltonia hybrid?

Green and maroon Canna indica leaves
Canna indica


Red and yellow pendant Heliconia flowers
Heliconia species

The vines, shrubs and trees growing inside the Boettcher Conservatory
Indoor Jungle

Brown and red Phragmipedium flowering in a stream inside the conservatory
Phragmipedium growing in a stream


2 comments:

Sari said...

wonderful! How lovely to see all the orchids in a natural setting. I'm a big fan of thunbergia grandiflora, btw!

Unknown said...

Just a little too cold for outdoors in Washington, but if you wanted to have a vine to keep your Passionflower company indoors Thunbergia might be a good choice.