Lisa Eldred

West meets East at the Denver Botanic Gardens through this weekend

For much of this year, the Denver Botanic Gardens has been an intersection for Asian and American culture. It began with the Kizuna: West Meets East outdoor exhibit, for which bamboo specialists Tetsunori Kawana and Stephen Talasnik created several site-specific sculptures. They were up in time for ... More >>

Simple Pleasures

The yin and yang of bamboo meet in Kizuna at the Denver Botanic Gardens

When Kizuna: West Meets East, a site-specific installation of monumental works in bamboo, opens tomorrow at the Denver Botanic Gardens, it will only be the next step in a process that began in earnest in early April, when the artists arrived at the DBG not just to install, but in some cases to actua ... More >>

Indian Summer

How to build a corn maze: Will Jones reveals the Denver Botanic Gardens' secrets

​Okay, so it's not really a secret, but when we saw this year's design for the annual Corn Maze at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield -- which opens to the public today -- we got to thinking. How do they choose the design every year? Who makes the design into a maze? And how on the green ... More >>

Street Dreams

Sowing creative seeds at the Botanic Gardens.

Garden Fresh

Urban Nature brings street art to the Denver Botanic Gardens.