THE GARDENS ON SPRING CREEK
Today, the Gardens on Spring Creek welcome over 50,000 visitors annually to enjoy display gardens, participate in educational programs
With a mission to enrich the lives of people and foster environmental stewardship through horticulture, the Gardens on Spring Creek is Fort Collins’ community botanic garden.
and special events, and provide hundreds of volunteers with opportunities to get their hands dirty. The Gardens currently includes a Plant Select® Demonstration Garden, a children’s
For the past nine years, the Gardens on Spring
garden, the three-quarter acre Garden of Eatin’,
Creek has been a special place and source of
a Rock Garden, and the Xeric Parkway Strip. As
positive, engaging and creative opportunities
an integral part of its mission, The Gardens sup-
for people to connect with plants and with each
ports school and community garden outreach
other. As a public/private partnership between
programs in low-income areas, offers a school
the City of Fort Collins and the Friends of the
field trip program and youth summer camps
Gardens on Spring Creek, the Fort Collins voters
for grade school students, provides year-round
enthusiastically supported the proposal for the
educational programs for all ages and interests
creation of a community horticultural center
in horticulture, and hosts several special events
through a ballot initiative, Building Community
to help connect people with each other and their
Choices, and in 2004 The Gardens officially
community.
opened its doors.