Summer Garden Tour with Plant Names | 3 Years with Panayoti Kelaidis

Take 3 summer garden tours with plant names at the home of gardener Panayoti Kelaidis. This video features garden tours that take place over 3 years during June and early July. Each garden tour features different plants. A lifelong Colorado gardener, Panayoti specializes in native, alpine and xeric plants. Rock gardening, the steppes and dryland plants are his passion. Panayoti has been with the Denver Botanic Gardens for over 40 years as a Senior Curator and Director of Outreach Panayoti began his career as curator of the Rock Alpine Garden which is a signature garden at DBG: the showcase of thousands of plants from around the world, many introduced to horticulture by Panayoti through Plant Select of which he was one of the original architects. He has explored much of North America including Mexico, the Andes in Chile and Argentina, Eurasia from Spain to Mongolia. He has travelled six times to South Africa—concentrating on the Drakensberg mountains and the Karoo. He has lectured in over 120 cities in 10 countries. He has received numerous honors including the Scott Medal of Swarthmore Arboretum and the Liberty Hyde Bailey award of the American Horticultural Society, both generally considered the top honors for horticulturists in the United States. Filmed and edited by Adam Taub. Garden Vistas is a platform to highlight people and their garden with diverse garden and gardening content. Don't miss future videos and Subscribe!