I haven’t posted recently as I was in Vietnam and then moved into a new house. More on both of those in later posts. In the meantime here are some pictures from this past summer’s trip to the Denver Botanic Gardens.

The Denver Botanic Gardens is a wonderful place with lots of colorful perennial borders and showy flower displays, but there is one garden there that isn’t as much about flowers as it is about foliage and structure. It is a beautiful composition in green.

That garden is June’s PlantAsia. I’m not sure about the name as to who June is but PlantAsia refers to the plants from our largest continent. The structures in the garden such as the moon gates are primarily Chinese in design. 

Here is an Asian, my friend Huy, in a moon gate in the Asian garden.

I love the composition of the large leafed plant with the rock lined stream bed. I’m not sure what the plant is although I think it may be Petasites japonicus, commonly called butterbur or coltsfoot. I’d love to have it in my garden, but it takes way too much water in the arid climate of New Mexico.

I loved the walkways which consist of irregularly shaped stones with flowing “rivers” of black pebbles cemented in between. Don’t you just want to follow it to see where it leads to?

I liked the small signs with quotes in the garden.

This statue is nicely framed by a moon gate.

An Asian garden would be incomplete without Buddha appearing in it somewhere.

This only a small glimpse of one garden out of many that comprise the Denver Botanic Gardens, which is one of the best in the world. Be sure to visit it next time you are in Denver.