Comments on: Botanizing at 14,000 feet – Mount Evans Summit, Colorado https://gardern.co.za/2012/08/botanizing-at-14000-feet-mount-evans/ Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Les https://gardern.co.za/2012/08/botanizing-at-14000-feet-mount-evans/#comment-3040 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:04:49 +0000 #comment-3040 We are fortunate to have friends in Denver that don't mind having us as company, or taking me to the DBG every time we visit. Your Co. posts do bring back memories… memories of me thinking I was having a heart attack on top of Mt. Evans (altitude sickness) and of later meeting God in that grove of bristlecones.

]]> By: Desert Dweller https://gardern.co.za/2012/08/botanizing-at-14000-feet-mount-evans/#comment-3039 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:15:05 +0000 #comment-3039 The plants are nice, but the view especially of the bighorn sheep is off the chart. When I was in college, driving up to the day's ski area on breaks, there was often one of those perched on some very steep, inaccessible perch above I-70, watching everyone drive by. Probably like morning entertainment for them!

But great plant shots. I think it's better to go up there to see bristlecone pines than to plant them in Abq, and pretend they are happy here…can't make that stuff up…..

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2012/08/botanizing-at-14000-feet-mount-evans/#comment-3038 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:16:11 +0000 #comment-3038 Acantholimon, Oh Hell, I though you DID tell me that it was C. rotundifolia, I'm such a goob botanizing in an arm chair -and a voice inside of me told me it just ain't so. Here on the pedantic coast, we appreciate any corrections – I am enjoying the book 'Both' .Thanks again for an awesome week!

]]> By: Unknown https://gardern.co.za/2012/08/botanizing-at-14000-feet-mount-evans/#comment-3037 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:01:40 +0000 #comment-3037 Wonderful. Love the mountain goat and the ancient trees. Great post. LT

]]> By: Panayoti Kelaidis https://gardern.co.za/2012/08/botanizing-at-14000-feet-mount-evans/#comment-3036 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:18:18 +0000 #comment-3036 Dear Matt,
If you hadn't been so kind about my workplace in another post (and more importantly, if you weren't such a mensch) I would be extremely peeved: I've probably been on Mt. Evans 100 times and I think your pix of Mt. Goats, gentians and more are better than mine: how annoying!
So I don't feel TOO bad telling you the campanula is just a dwarf form of C. rotundifolia (they can be very fetching up there–alas, they get big if moved down below): Campanula parryi has salverform, upward facing flowers and does not grow so far east (and is generally montane and subalpine rather than alpine)…I sound so pedantic!
Come back soon!

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