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Manitou Springs Colorado | Lodging & Accommodations | Vacation Getaway. Xeriscape Demonstration Garden in Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs Utilities Xeriscape Garden is designed to demonstrate the seven principles of Xeriscape in a wide variety of designs. The garden incorporates many different gardens styles that are arranged by water requirement so visitors can get a good idea of what styles can be achieved and what plants will thrive with different amounts of water. The garden displays more than 500 varieties of trees, shrubs, grasses, perennials, biennials and annuals that grow well in the Colorado Springs area.
Map DataImagery ©2014 , DigitalGlobe, USDA Farm Service Agency Map Data Imagery ©2014 , DigitalGlobe, USDA Farm Service Agency Map Nearby gardens Nearby hotels Nearby nurseries Reviews The reviews and ratings originate in all cases from third parties. Garden of the Gods. Balanced Rock presents a popular photo opportunity The formation known as the Three Graces Garden of the Gods is a public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971.[1] History[edit] The Garden of the Gods red rock formations were created during a geological upheaval along a natural fault line millions of years ago. The Utes oral traditions tell of their creation at the Garden of the Gods. In 1879, Charles Elliott Perkins, a friend of William Jackson Palmer, purchased 480 acres of land that included a portion of the present Garden of the Gods.
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote of the park, "You wind among rocks of every conceivable and inconceivable shape and size... all bright red, all motionless and silent, with a strange look of having been just stopped and held back in the very climax of some supernatural catastrophe Having purchased additional surrounding land, the City of Colorado Springs' park grew to 1,364 acres. A row of hogbacks. Manitou Springs Area Attractions.