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 Join
Horticulture Professionals at Chinese Garden Slide Show
The
Denver Botanic Gardens
will host a slide show on Thursday, October 14, 1999 to recap
the highlights of an earlier spring trip to China for the international
Horticultural Expo in Kunming. The slide show will be held from
7-9pm in Mitchell Hall. Cost is $12 for DBG members and $15 for
nonmembers.
 Professionals
from the DBG will describe their visit to the Expo in Kunming,
Denver's sister city in China. The Expo features gardens from
countries around the world, and from every Chinese province. The
exhibits portray fascinating and elaborate expressions of regional
folk tradition and garden art. Situated on 400 acres within the
city of Kunming, the Expo is expected to draw 30 million people
to the exhibit in 1999.
 The
slide show will also include sights from the areas around Beijing,
Qu Fu (the ancestral home of Confucius), the tropical rainforest
in Xishuangbana, the glacier-clad heights of Jade Dragon Mountains,
the ancient monuments with heritage trees near Peking (with a
climate similar to Denver's) and the lush peninsula of Shantung.
China
has 10% of the world's flora. E. H. Wilson, perhaps the greatest
plant explorer in Asia, called China the Mother of Gardens because
the majority of so many common garden plants originated there.
Many of the best plants may have yet to be introduced to the Colorado
landscape.
 If
you enjoy gardening and would like to view both natural and man-made
drama in the emerging modern China, plan to attend the slide show
on October 14 at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Professional horticultural
staff from DBG will be available after the program to answer your
questions.
| We
want to thank John Yee for letting us use all of these pictures
that he took on a trip to Kunming, China. Mr. Yee will be
doing a video presentation of the trip on October 23, 1999
at the Aurora Library. For more information call John Yee
at 303.770.7866. |
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