Prairie Home Companion

All of the rain and snow we've had has created "a really good year for wildflowers," says city naturalist Gayle Weinstein, "but it's a really good year for weeds, too. The flowers are outnumbered a billion to one." And we're pulling for the wildflowers, which will be the focus of tonight's Wildflowers at Dusk, a walk led by naturalist Jim Borland that starts at Paul A. Hentzell Park and stretches into nearby Babi Yar Park. "These are remnants of prairies," Weinstein says of the parks, part of close to 4,000 acres of open space that the City of Denver is returning to its roots. "We have seventy native species there, wonderful natives like evening star, baby's breath, buckwheat and scarlet gaura that you really don't see anywhere." The program, which starts at 7 p.m. at East Yale Avenue and South Havana Street, is free; for information on the rest of the Wild About Denver series, search "Natural Areas" at www.denvergov.org.
Thu., June 14, 7 p.m.