Panayoti Kelaidis Colorado Home Garden Tour | Gardening an Expression of Soul

Take a wonderful garden tour with Panayoti Kelaidis, as he speaks about gardening, life, plants, and shows you his favorite plants in his own home garden. A lifelong Colorado gardener, he specializes in native, alpine and xeric plants. Rock gardening and dryland plants are his passion. In this interview he speaks of the garden that a person creates being an outward expression of the soul. Share in his garden wisdom as we explore his Denver, CO garden. Filmed by Adam Taub of Story Doc.

Panayoti's Statement: “I've had various journalists interview me over the years, and my garden has been filmed before, but Adam Taub has done a better job of both tasks than his predecessors. My only regret is that I didn't give Gwen Moore (my ex) credit for the gardens' overall design, nor thank Jan Fahs--very much my partner in grime now--for helping manage an unruly half acre.”

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.

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