Mid-April is a perfectly normal time for snow. It’s Colorado, after all,
and I honestly can’t remember a spring when a sudden snowfall didn’t
take a toll on the flowers. Still, we always hope
this year will
be different. The forecast did mention a hard frost, but who really
trusts the meteorologists, right? So we were genuinely surprised when
snow started falling last Friday with great enthusiasm and didn’t stop until the afternoon.
The accumulation was just under an inch, but it was enough to affect the
flowers at Denver Botanic Gardens.
By Saturday morning, plenty of snow remained, and the flowers had
clearly taken a hit. It turned into one of the saddest walks around the
garden - so many blooms frostbitten and buried under a thin layer of
snow… Honestly, I was not in the mood of taking photos of the flowers in snow...
Still, the small shards of ice and sparkling drops of water looked amazing ;)
We kept it short that day - no need to linger too long among all those
frozen beauties, but we already planned to come back the next morning.
And… no surprise here, Sunday looked completely different. The flowers that survived stood tall again, soaking in the morning sun, as if claiming their reward after two days under snow. Hard to blame them.
Not everything came through unscathed. Some still carried the marks of that sudden cold snap.
But aside from a few wilted blooms here and there, the garden looked
beautiful again, as it always does. And the walk felt far more enjoyable
than the day before.
And, believe it or not, the mix of sun and moisture even
affected the wooden posts along the paths… we found at least one that
seemed to be blooming too :)
Anemones, pasque flowers, even cacti, everything was in bloom.
California poppies were out as well. Maybe a little early this year, but just as stunning as usual.
Here and there, patches of snow still lingered in the shade of the
trees, but not for long. A few more hours, and they would be gone for
good.
It was a much more pleasant walk compared to the day before. And next
time the weather decides to surprise us, we can only hope it brings rain
instead of snow.
We could really use the water… a lot of it, actually :)
Photos taken on April 18-19, 2026.
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