The Gardens on Spring Creek is the community botanic garden of Fort Collins, Colorado. The 18-acre site opened in 2004 as part of an important partnership between the City of Fort Collins and the Friends of the Gardens on Spring Creek. The Gardens is City of Fort Collins Facility.  Following a two-year, $6 million expansion project.

Our focus is the exquisite rock garden at the Spring Creek Botanic Gardens complex.

The Rock Garden simulates an alpine area, with rocks and plants artistically arranged to reflect natural rock and plant relationships, creating a unique sense of place.

Featuring:

• One-half acre with flagstone pathway
• A unique and naturalistic garden featuring Colorado native plants as well as many adapted plants suited to Colorado growing conditions
• Collection of dwarf conifers set among locally quarried rock
• Largest rock garden in northern Colorado
• Specialty bulbs from spring to fall