Edited by Tom Schweich  

Plant Oriented Resources for Golden

Checklist Flora of Native and Naturalized Vascular Plants of Golden and Vicinity, Jefferson County, Colorado

https://www.schweich.com/cojefgolf1.html

Weedbusters

Weeding at DeLong Park. Organized by Protecting Golden's Health, citizens for the transition to organic land management practices by the City of Golden.
Thursdays

• Cool Season: 10:00 AM — Noon
• Warm Season: 8:00 AM — 10:00 AM

Janine Trudell's video about DeLong Park: https://vimeo.com/925912216
Email: Protecting Golden goldenshealth@gmail.com
Facebook: Protecting Golden's Health

City of Golden Friendship Garden

Maintained by a small group of volunteers who are converting this former formal garden into a native garden featuring plants known to have ethnographic interest. Opposite the corner of 11th and Illinois Streets.

Golden Community Garden

https://goldencommunitygarden.org/

Denver Botanic Garden

The key for the Gardens is to take our interactions and understandings of plants and use them to break open a world of wonder for the countless people we reach.

Denver Botanic Gardens’ mission of connecting people with plants takes many forms. Sometimes the connection is found through something universal like food. Sometimes it’s found through something particular like art. Other times it’s a connection through the elements that sustain plants – water and soil.

Two locations:

• York Street
• Chatfield Farms

https://www.botanicgardens.org/

Stewards of Golden Open Space

Stewards of Golden Open Space is a Golden nonprofit to provide the community vision and voice to understand, protect and preserve Golden’s precious open space resources, their assets and the values they represent with transparency and inclusivity.

https://stewardsofgolden.org/

Colorado Native Plant Society

State non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the knowledge, appreciation and conservation of native plants and habitats of Colorado through education, stewardship and advocacy.

• Annual Meeting, Field Trips, Local Chapters, Seed & Plant Swaps
• Tends to be a little more science-oriented.

https://conps.org/

Wild Ones, Front Range Chapter

Local chapter of a national not-for-profit educational organization to promote environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.

• Garden Tours, Seed & Plant Swaps
• Tends to be a little more gardening-oriented.

https://frontrange.wildones.org/

Resource Central, Garden in a Box

The Garden in A Box program makes it easy to transform your yard into a beautiful, drought-tolerant oasis helping you to use less water on your landscaping year after year. Each spring and summer we offer a selection of professionally designed, low-water garden kits tailor-made for Colorado yards.

https://resourcecentral.org/gardens/

Protecting Golden's Health

Citizens for the transition to Organic Land Management Practices by the City of Golden.