A botanic garden comprising 40 distinct gardens, located just a few miles from the city's downtown skyscrapers. Notable are the Rock Alpine Garden, with more than 3,000 different plants, and the Xeriscape and Plains Gardens, which feature plants native only to Colorado.
Denver Botanic Gardens
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The Denver Botanic Gardens is a public botanical garden located in Denver, Colorado in the Cheesman Park neighborhood. The 23-acre (93,000 m2) park contains a conservatory, a variety of theme gardens and a sunken amphitheater, which hosts various concerts in the summer. Woody Allen's 1973 movie Sleeper filmed some scenes at the gardens.
The Japanese Garden at the Denver Botanic Garden is called Shofu-en -- the Garden of Wind and Pines.[1] It was designed by Koichi Kawana.[2]
The Denver Botanic Gardens, along with nearby Cheesman Park and Congress Park, sit atop what used to be Mount Prospect cemetery. Although the majority of bodies were removed in 1893, the interred continued to be removed as late as the 1950's. It is estimated that as many as 2000 bodies may still be buried in the park. As recently as 2008, graves were uncovered during construction of an underground parking structure.[3]
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- ^ "Denver Boatnic Gardens". http://www.botanicgardens.org/content/york-street-individual. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
- ^ "Koichi Kawana". http://www.lacity.org/san/japanesegarden/noflash/kkawana.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
- ^ Howard Pankratz (2008-11-07). "Old grave halts work at Denver Botanic Gardens". The Denver Post. http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10928389. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
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