The Gardens on Spring Creek

What's Blooming: A New Garden! By Andrew Scott, Horticulturist We have a new garden being developed at the Gardens on Spring Creek! Since the expansion in 2018, there has been an unused plot nestled between the Prairie and Undaunted Gardens and the community garden beside the parking lot. For years, it’s merely been an empty mulched area where antsy volunteers could weed mallow and bindweed if they finished their original task early, but in collaboration with Colorado State University, the space is on its way to being a pretty and purposefully curated garden. As you can imagine a lot of time and effort goes into bringing a new garden to life. The process began last October when CSU’s Professor Zach Johnson approached Michelle Provaznik, Garden’s Director, and Dillon Hancock, Operations and Horticulture Supervisor, about a potential opportunity for his students to get some hands-on, real-world experience with landscape design. A couple underutilized spaces were selected as redesign