About our Public Gardens

The Horticultural Art Society of Colorado Springs, Inc. (HAS) is a non-profit organization supported by membership dues, proceeds from our plant sale, and other activities, founded in 1962 by local horticulturalists, both amateur and professional.

Our membership is open to all who have an interest in gardening. HAS members are dedicated to learning about appropriate plant materials and cultivation methods for the Pikes Peak region and enriching our community by sharing this knowledge.

Our board of trustees meet monthly except in December and the meetings are open to all members. Our annual membership meeting is held in November when we elect members to the board. Our board sets the HAS calendar, annual budget, and activities.

Our Public Gardens
The Horticultural Art Society invites the public to visit our public gardens in the city-owned Monument Valley Park near downtown Colorado Springs: the award-winning Demonstration Garden, the Heritage Garden, the Pinetum, and the new Children’s Garden. The gardens are maintained by volunteers only. There’s no charge to visit the gardens. They are open to the public year-round.

The Demonstration Garden
Located at  222 Mesa Rd and Glen Ave , this garden showcases selections from Plant Select and is a Display Garden for All-America Selections. This is the location for our Gigantic Spring Plant Sale where gardeners can purchase Plant Select plants and other plants well suited for the Pikes Peak area. This garden features:
– a sensory garden,
– rose beds,
– perennial beds,
– shade plants and shrubs,
– dry woodlands area,
– a gnome home,
– vegetable and herb garden, and
– lawn, benches and picnic tables

The Children’s Garden
Located adjacent to the Demonstration Garden, the Children’s Garden for the young and young-at-heart was presented to the City of Colorado Springs in September 2019. It features a hand-wrought iron fence, pollinator hotel, raised bed with tiny plantings, a worm bed, vegetable and perennial beds.

Arbors frame the parterre and Lorelei sculpture in the Heritage Garden

The Heritage Garden
Located at (1117 Glen Ave) approximately a block and half north of the Demonstration Garden, just south of Uintah Street and adjacent to the Historic Van Briggle Pottery. This garden features:
– large lawn and an outstanding American Elm tree,
– lavenders and spring bulbs,
– gazebo and arbors,
– rock garden, and
– a parterre with thyme garden decorated with Van Briggle tiles and the Lorelei Vase sculpture. The Lorelei Vase sculpture was added in September 2017.

The Pinetum, located across Monument Creek from the Heritage Garden, adjacent to Colorado College’s tennis courts, features unusual non-deciduous trees.

Lacebark Pine in the Pinetum

2024
HORTICULTURAL ART SOCIETY
BOARD of TRUSTEES

Board Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month except December. Members are welcome to attend. Contact us at hasgardens@gmail.com. 

Trustees

  • Kathy Brown
  • Louise Conner
  • Erin Eisen
  • Kim Ellis
  • Sean Lohman
  • Rob Lucey
  • Lynne Pearson
  • Janet Rahmani
  • Eva Regan
  • Nancy Taylor
  • Barb Valenti
  • Gaye Woullard

Board Support

  • Ann Burek
  • Chella DiMenza
  • Diane Engles
  • Janet Fitzgerald
  • Susan Flynn
  • Pam Hamamoto
  • Laura Lowan
  • Debra Stinton Othitis
  • Tracy Pedrick
  • Sue Thomas
  • Terry Webb