The Gardens on Spring Creek

  What’s Blooming:   The Welcome Garden by Selena Kunze, Horticulturist, Gardens on Spring Creek The Welcome Garden was started in 2019 following completion of construction on the new building addition…or should I say it was pulled from the compacted earth, through parched patches of turf and crushed perennials. Initially coined “The Giant Pit”, lovingly of course, the garden began with removal of the suffering remnants of old beds, long unirrigated because of construction and frequently trampled by equipment and workers. The dwarf Forsythia , originally planted by former Curator Sherry Fuller as babies from her grandmother’s shrubs, were carefully dug and potted, while surviving perennials and grasses were relocated to nearby gardens or divided for our annual Spring Plant Sale. Big Daddy , the praying mantis sculpture made from repurposed metal dumpsters by Josh Jones, was commissioned to keep watch over the canal by the Theme Gardens instead, and volunteers painstakingly separated