 The following is a production of New Mexico State University. For over 50 years, the Denver Botanic Gardens have been among America's leading public parks. Today we're focusing on one special collection. Paniyote Collides gives us a tour of the Denver Botanic Gardens Rock and Alpine Garden. What's this beautiful blue flower? That's Anchusa capensis, it's the Latin name. It's the Cape, forget me not. Cape, that's from South Africa. It's usually considered an annual but we discovered that it's perfectly hardy and we're planting quite a few more of them along here because that blue is so dazzling. Another very famous southwestern plant is this ice plant here. This is one we're calling Table Mountain and we just released that this year for the first time. You know Cooperite but this is a little bit softer color, it's not that really harsh purple and the foliage on this remains even more attractive in the winter time. We think it's a better plant. Throughout the Southwest? I would say throughout the United States actually. That's performed very well even in the Midwest and the East Coast. And in this one? The paper flowers or straw flowers are found all over Eurasia but the greatest concentration is in South Africa where they have about 300 different kinds. And this is one I collected seed of in South Africa and it blooms all summer with these funny papery flowers if you touch them they kind of rustle. I like those and they drive very well. They do indeed. What's this? I see this showing up in a lot of different places. I think the oregano or oregano is an ornamental one. This is not one we use in cooking. This is one from Lebanon but it's very ornamental. It looks like hops. Over here though it looks like another kind of oregano. Now this one you can cook with. This is the true wild marjoram which is used in herbs. And the bees love it. They do indeed. Well there's more to see yet so let's keep on going and see some other things. This is the common status you see in gardens, sea status. There's another one right there. It's the German status which is a much paler and wharfer form. This is good for dried arrangements isn't it? Both of them if you cut them they dry beautifully. And what's this? It looks just like a petunia but it's actually in a tropical family but this is one that's very hardy. It's the hardy petunia. It loves it hot and dry. We've got plenty of that in the southwest. And the oregano over here is really spectacular. This is one of the many sea orringos and that blue color is just electric isn't it? Yes that's really nice. It looks good against the rocks here which in a rock garden you'd expect. Well this is a rock outcrop I'm particularly proud of and it makes me feel like I'm really bringing a little bit of the southwest back home.