Children's Garden at Spring Creek Park

Foothills Rotary Club of Fort Collins, Colorado
District 5440

 

Fort Collins Foothills Rotary Club

September 23, 2006

Photos from the open house at the

Children's Garden at Spring Creek Park

                    

Archway outside garden

Bike rack (replicas of garden tools)
 

Giant Watering Can Art at garden entry

Interactive fountain (children operate a hand
pump to make the water pour out into
a maze carved in the stone)

Scare Crow Scuptures leading into various raised project gardens

Shelter that has a living roof and Aspen leaf weather vane (note the rain catch barrels to collect irrigation water)
 

Detail of shelter's post, inlaid hand painted tiles donated by "Color Your World"

Water feature that follows into an interactive pond

One of the information signs throughout the garden, produced by DaVinci Signs

View of garden to the east

View of garden to the west

The Burr Oak tree donated and planted by the Rotary Clubs

Sculpture commissioned by the Quad Clubs, four garden hoses inter-twined

Detail of one hose with the Foothills Rotary Club name on it (note how the hoses rise up through a Rotary gear

Plaque at the base of the sculpture

The Quad Clubs had a children's activity. President Susie Ewing of the Downtown Club assists a child planting wild flower seeds into a cup to take home. One of many activities for children

Gardening display set up by the Downtown Club

Start of the ceremony to bury a Quad Club Time Capsule (left to right:
Breakfast Past President John Carroll, Breakfast President Phil Murphy, Children's Garden project Chair Millard Penney (Downtown), President Donna Burrill, Downtown President Susie Ewing, PSD Superintendant Jerry Wilson)

Millard Penney, Jerry Wilson and Jim Clark (City Parks) lower the Capsule into a hole below the Burr Oak as a child looks on

President Donna, as the other Presidents did, adds a shovel full of soil on top of the Time Capsule

Engraved plaque that marks the spot of the Quad Club Time Capsule (Capsule contained from our Club the Club banner, member roster with photos and a 4-Way test coin)

 

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