Join Betty Ford Alpine Gardens and the Vail Public Library for a collaborative children’s story time! Gather in the Children’s Garden for a dinosaur-themed story at 10:00 AM on Friday August 23. The Children’s Garden is located by the Schoolhouse Gift Shop. This is a free event.
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Get in the Summer Spirit with craft mocktails that embrace the entertaining season! The talented and dynamic staff from Root & Flower will bring the science of mixology to the Gardens and demonstrate how to mix up a few mocktails using herbs from the garden. What is a Mocktail you might … Continued
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Shop water-efficient plants suited for mountain gardens, rock gardens, perennial borders and container gardens. Select from a unique variety of water-wise mountain perennials including Penstemon, milkweed, asters, ornamental grasses, rock garden plants, succulents, groundcovers and unusual plant divisions from the Gardens. Dominque Turnbull will have handmade troughs available for sale, designed … Continued
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens It’s National Public Gardens Week May 10 – 19! A week for the public to value their public gardens. We invite you, our community, to help get the Gardens ready for summer. Main project: Sand and stain the iconic benches that provide a place for relaxation in the Gardens. Join your … Continued
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens | Nick Courtens Series Want to create delicious meals at home using fresh organic herbs instead of store-bought dried spices which may contain harmful levels of heavy metals? Join Fourth Street Farms to learn how to create your own herb container garden.
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Lynn Albers, Paleobotanist – History and Botanical Knowledge of the Native Utes Join local ethnobotanist, Lynn Albers, as she discusses the Ute peoples and their use of Colorado flora. The Utes, or Nuche as they call themselves, were the historic indigenous peoples who lived in the Colorado High Country. Lynn’s discussion … Continued
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Dr. Gussie Maccracken, Denver Museum of Nature and Science – What Did the Dinosaurs Eat? Dr. Maccracken studies fossil plants and their ecological interactions in deep time. She focuses on reconstructing ancient landscapes during the Late Cretaceous (Age of the Dinosaurs), across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction, and into the first million … Continued
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Rowan Nygaard, Betty Ford Alpine Gardens and Longwood Gardens Exploring the South Island of New Zealand: Botany in Te Waka a Maui This lecture will highlight the journey of an amateur botanist throughout much of the South Island of New Zealand. From subalpine scree to temperate rainforest, explore the fascinating plant … Continued
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Billy Doran, Executive Director, Museum at Dinosaur Junction – Dinosaurs of Eagle County Executive Director of The Museum at Dinosaur Junction, Billy Doran, will introduce participants to the world of dinosaurs, focusing on those that inhabited Eagle County in the Mesozoic
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Dorothy DePaulo and Sharon Garett, Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists, Finding Your Inner Botanical Artist: An Introduction to Botanical Art In this one-day workshop we will discuss the definition of botanical art and how it differs from other plant art. We will study plant structures, basic leaf shape, venation, and … Continued
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Emily Griffoul and Nanette Kuich – Botanical Preamble Emily Griffoul, Conservation Scientist, and Nanette Kuich, Education Director at Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, will introduce the science of botany. The morning will be a classroom introduction to botany basics and the afternoon will be spent observing and keying local plants. Please bring … Continued
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Emily Griffoul, Conservation Scientist – An Introduction to the Colorado Alpine EcoFlora Project Are you interested in alpine plants and want to contribute to science? Join Betty Ford Alpine Garden’s Conservation Scientist, Emily Griffoul, for an introduction to the Colorado Alpine EcoFlora Project, a community-science botany project powered by iNaturalist, the … Continued