The Gardens on Spring Creek

What's Blooming:  Cactus Garden by Lauren Springer, Horticulturist, Gardens on Spring Creek   An unusual planting at the Gardens is wowing visitors and attracting a myriad native bees and other pollinators. To see what the buzz is about, and perhaps fall in love with some intriguing plants that broaden horizons for gardening in Northern Colorado, head to the Cactus Garden on the south side of the Undaunted Garden. In this relatively small, sloped space, traversed by a casual gravel path and graced by a large pergola for shaded seating and viewing from its north side, several hundred winter-hardy cacti are making themselves at home. The planting is one of the largest public outdoor collections of cacti hardy to USDA Zone 5 in the world. Unique in its attention to design, this specialty garden blends regionally resonant rockwork and companion plants with the striking and prickly cacti stars in thoughtfully artistic ways that also benefit the cacti horticulturally. When I was