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Gardens on Spring Creek
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Established 2004
Location 2145 Centre Avenue
Fort Collins, Colorado 80526
Type Botanical garden
Visitors 70,000
Nearest parking On site

The Gardens on Spring Creek is an 18-acre (72,843 m²) botanical garden located on the Spring Creek corridor in Fort Collins, Colorado. The entrance is at 2145 Centre Avenue in Fort Collins. The Gardens is owned and managed by the City of Fort Collins. A 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer board works in conjunction with the City of Fort Collins on behalf of the institution.

History

The idea for a community horticulture center in Fort Collins was vocalized as early as 1986, but the initial move to development can be traced to 1995 when the city of Fort Collins initiated a horticulture program. Groundbreaking for the visitor center took place in 2004, with the site opening later that year. 2017 saw the groundbreaking for a 5 acre, multi-million dollar expansion of garden spaces for the site. Lasting for two years, this expansion saw the addition of 5 new garden spaces: Theme (Plant Select, Fragrance, Rose, Moon, Hummingbird and Butterfly), Great Lawn / Everitt Pavilion, Undaunted, Foothills, and Prairie Gardens. Completed in 2019, the project doubled the visitor center's square footage and added an all-glass butterfly house operated in partnership with the Butterfly Pavilion of Westminster, CO.

Features

Current Garden Spaces:

  • Entryway Garden
  • Children's Garden (2006)
  • Garden of Eatin' (2009)
  • Rock Garden (2010)
  • Xeric Parkway Strip (2006)
  • The Great Lawn and Everitt Pavilion (2018)
  • The Undaunted Garden (2018)
  • Prairie Garden (2018)
  • Foothills Garden (2018)
  • Theme Gardens (2018)
    • Hummingbird Garden
    • Moon Garden
    • Rose Garden
    • Plant Select Garden
  • Butterfly House (2019)
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