Christmas at Phipps Indoors

Denver Botanic Gardens

In addition to the Sierra Restaurant, my friends took me to the Denver Botanic Gardens – what a beautiful place!  These gardens consists of a 23 acre park with a conservatory, theme gardens and an ampitheater.  It’s claim to fame is that it has North America’s largest collection of plants from cold temperate climates from […]

Our National Parks Exhibit

Garden Railroad: Our National Parks Exhibit was on display at Phipps at the same time as the Blooms Under the Big Top. The featured photo above is Saguaro National Park.  The rest of the parks are labeled below.  I loved seeing all the little plants – way to go Phipps!        

Self Pollinating or Not For Produce

First we are going to cover whether a plant needs pollination to produce the intended item such as the veggie, fruit, herb or bloom. Self Pollinating – each flower on these veggies and fruits has male and female parts.  While these plants are self pollinating, it doesn’t mean that pollinators don’t help produce the veggie […]