June 17, 2026
Red hot pokers are blazing right now in the Big Garden in Denver’s Washington Park. The meadow garden in which they’re planted is part of the park’s Pollinator Corridor.
The corridor is simply habitat — plants that sustain pollinators — stitched together across neighborhoods. With each person who plants a few pollinator-friendly plants in their yard or in balcony pots, the corridor grows. Yard by yard and street by street, it gives bees and other pollinators food and shelter to sustain them in our urban environment. Plus pollinator gardens add color and beauty!
Neighbors are encouraged to register their efforts on an online map, which shows the Pollinator Corridor expanding beyond the confines of Wash Park. You can even click on dots representing each participant to learn what they’re growing and see a photo.
Tall verbena
Red hot poker and yarrow
Penstemons putting out the bee welcome mat
I’ll end with a scene in a different part of the park, where I spotted a young, flowering Tatarian maple. Beautiful!
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