Rocky Mountain Chapter
Symposium - Fall 2024
Gateway to Rock Gardening
Four Fresh Perspectives on our Art
October 19th, 2024 - 8:30AM to 3PM
DBG Sturm Auditorium
Symposium Schedule
8:30 AM
Social get together
9:00
Steve Aegerter and Randy Tatroe — Short and Sweet Business Meeting: Election of 2025 Officers
9:30
Rod Haenni and Glenn Guetenburg — Adventures in Two Gardens and a Botanical Paradise
10:30
Mariel Tribby — Rock Gardening in the Midwest at Missouri Botanical Garden
11:30
Lunch on your own (Hive and Bistro are options, but can be busy. Bring a lunch or drive to one of a dozen nearby restaurants.
1:00 PM
Christina Alba — Conservation Biology at Denver Botanic Gardens – with a Glimpse Beyond the Garden Gate
2:00
Rob Smith and Nicholas Boynton-Steele – Creating Beautiful Winter ( and summer) Gardens in Boise, Idaho through Plant Breeding
Rod Haenni and Glenn Guetenburg
Adventures in Two Gardens and a Botanical Paradise
Glenn Guenterberg and Rod Haenni will present on highlights from a September, 2023 tour of the Karoo in South Africa. Rod will also show the construction of two new crevice gardens in 2023, one in Littleton and one in Oro Valley, Arizona.
Mariel Tribby
Rock Gardening in the Midwest at Missouri Botanical Garden
Explore a different plant palette with this introduction to the rock gardens at Missouri Botanical Garden. Mariel will cover her work over the past decade growing and yes… seeing many dryland plants die, in hot and humid St. Louis. She’ll also cover the extensive renovation of the Heckman Rock Garden and stories of successful cultivation from lowland Missouri natives to high-elevation plants.
Christina Alba
Conservation Biology at Denver Botanic Gardens—with a Glimpse Beyond the Garden Gate
I will give an overview of our DBG department’s work, and expand more deeply on my own work within the larger framework of what goes on department wide. I can then switch gears to the Greece travelogue and how I uploaded all my plant observations from Greece to iNaturalist. Much of the conservation work we do in the Research department happens in wild systems across Colorado highlight how we use iNat as a platform to engage citizen scientists and do outreach.
Robb Smith and Nicholas Boynton-Steele
Creating Beautiful Winter (and summer) Gardens in Boise, Idaho through Plant Breeding
Robb Smith is a manager of Edward’s Greenhouse—a premier nursery and greenhouse in Boise, Idaho. Nicholas Boynton-Steele is a plant breeder specializing in Western native plants. Both have a keen design eye and a depth of plant knowledge that have made them horticultural luminaries of the Intermountain region. What Robb and Nich are up to has great import and relevance to
Colorado gardening. Creating Beautiful Winter (and summer) Gardens in Boise, Idaho through Plant Breeding. Their talk will introduce the climate and geographic location of Boise and their garden design theory as well as Nich’s breeding work.