SATURDAY JULY 15, 2023

8:30 am GATHER & COFFEE
9:00 am WALKING TOUR

GATHER:
Fairmount Cemetery
430 S Quebec St
Denver, CO 80247
*Parking lot on East side of main building

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$10 Members, $15 General, Free for Students
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"Founded in 1890, Fairmount Cemetery was the largest developed landscape west of the Mississippi at the time. Designed by landscape architect Reinhardt Schuetze, it was planned to resemble a park; quite the challenge in a high plains desert which averaged just 15 inches of precipitation or less a year. Schuetze worked and lived at Fairmount until 1894, when the City of Denver hired him to develop the Denver parks system, including Denver’s Washington and Cheesman Parks. He was also commissioned in 1895 to design the Colorado State Capitol grounds.

In 2013, the Fairmount Heritage Foundation began a tree survey at Fairmount, recording species, size, and location. Today, Fairmount Cemetery boasts Colorado’s largest arboretum, both in acreage and number of significant plants, home to numerous Notable and Champion Trees, as well as one of the largest known collections of Old Garden Roses in North America." Source: Fairmount Cemetery
 
Jim Klett is Professor Emeritus of Landscape Horticulture and an Extension Landscape Horticulturist at Colorado State University. He has been at CSU for over 43 years and taught in the areas of plant identification of herbaceous and woody plant materials, nursery production and management, and community and urban forestry. He continues to work directly with the Green Industry of Colorado, especially the greenhouse, nursery, arboriculture, garden center and landscape contractor industries.  His research has dealt with both herbaceous and woody plant evaluation and introduction, water requirements of landscapes plants, productions related issues with herbaceous plants including stock plant management and propagation of new and difficult to propagate herbaceous plants along with other culturally related concerns with landscape plants. Jim retired officially from Colorado State University on January 1, 2023 but still is somewhat active finishing with graduate students and assisting in research projects that continue into his retirement. He is still active working on several projects benefiting the Green Industry of Colorado.