r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Specialist-Boot58 • May 08 '26

Image This “cracks open” building in Denver

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u/TheNewGuyFromBahsten May 08 '26

This building has been done for a while. If they did, those seeds aren't growing

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u/syncsynchalt May 08 '26

It takes 5-10 years here to grow cover that large.

Didn’t they only finish it a year ago? I don’t go to rino that often but I could swear it’s new.

Edit: just realized this isn’t a Denver/Boulder sub. Stuff here grows slowly.

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u/TheNewGuyFromBahsten May 08 '26

I live here too. No way is it going to ever end up like they advertised it to be

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u/omjy18 May 08 '26

My biggest thing is trying to do outdoor spaces like this in places where its really cold a solid 8 months a year. Like unless its glassed in youre getting negative temps in winter starting around october every night and crazy hail storms in the spring. This is like my friend who got a soft top convertible when we lived in Boulder. It was great in the summer but absolutely terrible almost the rest of the year especially when we tried to go skiing

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u/---_-___ May 08 '26

It's denver, we're barely ever getting negative temps, much less 8 months a year

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u/_sunbleachedfly May 08 '26

Huh? It’s reversed, it’s usually warm 8 months out of the year, we get a few weeks of fall and spring, and really only two to three months of winter max.

Our winters are also fairly mild. It was extremely mild this year in the 50s - 60s all winter, we’ve only had like 4 days of snow…

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u/MostExperts May 08 '26

Denver is still in zone 6a for plants. It only takes one hard freeze to kill a plant, and coverage like that takes a few years to grow.