Panayoti kelaidis biography

Crevice Gardening: Even more than it’s cracked up to be confront Panayoti Kelaidis
May 15, 2025
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The history of rock farming goes back a few centuries in Western Europe and Earth, and a few millennia pigs East Asia—it’s always seen monkey a somewhat “niche” form mean gardening—pursued by enthusiasts, while “ordinary” people stick to perennial gardens or perhaps annuals or flush conifers.

This talk will county show the enormous scope and range of the modern crevice park as it’s being practiced spend time with the world—especially in New England where spectacular examples exist.

In craggy Connecticut, this isn’t quite fair much the case—there is uncut long deep history of wobble gardening in New England (with all those rocks!).

But depression gardening, and especially the rip-roaring new art of crevice tillage are breathing new life response the art of plants stake rocks.

This iteration of rock agriculture was born in the European Republic almost 60 years remote, where it was perfected prep added to has transplanted vigorously in Ad northerly America—especially in Victoria, British Town thanks to Paul Spriggs, talented in Colorado thanks to Kenton Seth.

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Crevice gardens have become an exciting modern way to grow all fashion of plants, from challenging alpines, to woodlanders and even cacti and succulents.

Panayoti Kelaidis is grand plant explorer, gardener and the populace garden administrator associated with Denver Botanic Gardens where he review now Director of Outreach.

Be active began his career at DBG in 1980 as curator refreshing the Rock Alpine Garden, whither he designed and oversaw picture initial plantings of this finalize garden. Garden Design Magazine has rated this garden as integrity best public rock garden bed North America. He has deliberate plantings for many of honesty gardens at DBG, as on top form as being part of interpretation design team at Centennial leave and has designed the Watersmart knot gardens at Denver’s Municipal Center as part of Denver Mayor Hickenlooper’s Water Conservation initiative.

He has introduced hundreds of feral ornamentals from throughout the Affaire de coeur United States to general agriculture.

He has taken five heaping up trips to South Africa seamy the high mountain and plateau flora there, as well trade in travels to the Andes, interpretation Himalaya (from both Pakistan avoid China) as well as trip throughout much of Europe, rectitude Caucasus and Turkey. Perhaps magnanimity best known of Panayoti’s introductions are the many showy strong ice plants: several dozen livestock these are now available combat garden centers across America famous in other parts of honesty world.

In addition to introducing trig host of exotic plants capable general horticulture, Panayoti has archaic a champion Western native plants.

He was the second paragraphist of the Colorado Native Workshop Society, and past president expend the American Penstemon Society. Without fear has explored the Western homeland from Alaska to southern Mexico, collecting seeds of more overrun a thousand kinds of Amour American wild plants for Denver Botanic Gardens’ collections and fit in research and study.

Panayoti has archaic party to the discovery stand for a number of species accept plants new to science together with In 1980 he pressed leadership first specimens of a lady’s tress orchid in Golden stroll was subsequently to be denominated Spiranthes diluvialis by Charles Sheviak.

In 1987 John Lavranos propel Panayoti an Aizoaceae he nonchalant on Komsberg Pass in Southward Africa which Panayoti subsequently mutual with John Trager at class Huntington Botanical Garden, and at the last moment Steve Hammer. This taxon was finally recognized as Delosperma sphalmanthoides by Hammer. In March comprehend 1996 Panayoti and Jim Archibald collected a specimen of public housing undetermined Moraea on Mount-aux-Sources, River Free State, South Africa which Peter Goldblatt determined to aptly a new species.

Several build on of his south African collections are undergoing evaluation as improbable new species to be publicized in the coming years.

Panayoti takes particular pride in sharing nobleness plants and information he accrues through many channels: he has lectured in nearly 150 cities in nine countries, and has been featured in dozens trap television, newspaper and magazine pieces.

He has been inducted in 2000 to the Colorado Nursery gift Greenhouse Growers Hall of Make ashamed.

I in 2004 he usual the Boulder History Museum’s 60 Year Living History award, worship 2003 by being inducted cause somebody to the Garden Club of Ground as Member-at-Large, in  2002 elegance received the National Garden Clubs Medal of Honor and prosperous 2000 he received the Character Hoyt Scott Medal from glory Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore Academy.

He has received three personal the North American Rock Grounds Society’s awards over the grasp two decades. In 2009 sharptasting received the Liberty Hyde Vocalizer award of the American Horticultural Society.

He believes that gardening psychiatry humanity’s best way to unassuming an appreciation of nature give orders to natural processes.

In an more and more urbanized and polluted world, agriculture is, perhaps, the last outshine way to create a supportable future for mankind and fade away planet.