Come Explore City Park’s Flowerbeds On Sept. 5

City Park Friends and Neighbors, the registered Neighborhood Organization that advocates for City Park, invites you to join us for a tour of City Park’s flower gardens on Tuesday, Sept. 5 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. We will meet off the circular parking lot accessed from Montview Boulevard and turning south to the roundabout. The tour will be led by City Park’s Adopt-a-Flowerbed Coordinators, Maria Flora (GPHC) and Jackie June (South City Park).

Adopt-a-Flowerbed is a Denver Parks and Recreation volunteer program, in its third year of operation in City Park. Since the pandemic, when the park’s horticulturists struggled to maintain the area’s many flowerbeds, volunteers from neighborhoods around the park have joined teams that tend gardens once a week (or as able).

We will stroll through the park, from Ida’s City Park Rock Garden to the MLK, Sopris and Burns gardens west of the Pavilion, and then east to the Lilac Lane, Benedict Rose Garden and Cordova Rock Garden ending at the roundabout where we began. Along the way Maria and Jackie will point out perennials and annuals contained in each flowerbed, and relate the interesting stories behind them as well. We may well see birds and animals of interest along the way.

The tour is free to the public, and we look forward to seeing you. We promise a unique and enjoyable experience in our park – City Park, the People’s Park!

Georgia Garnsey, Park Hill