The Description

DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS

Denver, CO

Hosted by Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator & Director of Outreach

The Experience

Your visit for up to four includes:

• Private tour lead by Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator & Director of Outreach.


• Lunch for four in the historic solarium in the Woodland Garden.


• One complimentary weekend night stay and buffet breakfast for two at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel.

Get a glimpse behind the scenes as your tour will take you through the 24 acre York Street gardens, which includes plants from every corner of the world. Special emphasis will be placed on the rock garden, steppe garden, and water gardens. 

Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator & Director of Outreach, has worked at the Denver Botanic Gardens since 1980, in many capacities. Prior to which, he worked in research at Colorado State University. While living most of his life in the Front Range, he has explored plants on five continents and introduced several hundred to general cultivation. The cultivation of alpine plants in rock gardens and cold hardy succulents are among his specialties. He has spoken in 150 cities in 9 different countries, and received the Liberty Hyde Bailey award from the American Horticultural Society in 2009.