The Alpine Rock Garden at the Denver Botanic Gardens is world - renowned for its diversity and collections of gamey - elevation alpine plants , and western US aboriginal plant life , steppe works and succulent . One of the gravid rock gardens in the United States , I saved this garden for a unlike day , as it deserved a more focused visit . Rock gardens can be controversial – at least properly defining them when garden geeks get together . Even today , many gardeners can not jibe on where they should be garden occupy with rocks , or garden construct to put up honest rock plants or alpine plants . The Alpine Rock Garden at the DBG is a little of both – but it is clearly inspired by the great European rock or alpine garden from the turning of the hundred . This garden domiciliate many plants native to the prairie and steppe area of the large American south west . Purists may mutter , expecting to see sweeps of gentians and pulsatilla such as those seen at Kew or the Montreal Botanic Gardens , but the DBG garden is unique in the reality of alpine gardens , and it is often name as one of the great three ( Kew , Edinburgh and Denver ) Rock Gardens maintained today . It alone is worth a sojourn while in the Denver domain .
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