Welcome to Garden In A Box, an easy, quick way to add a pop of color to your landscape using carefully selected water-wise plants that offer food and habitat to local birds, bees and insects. No green thumb required!
Denver Water is proud to partner with Boulder nonprofit Resource Central to offer our residential customers a limited number of $25 discounts on Garden In A Box kits, which include:
- Small “starter” plants that will grow as they become established in about three years.
- Professionally designed perennial gardens with plant-by-number instructions.
- Care and maintenance information.
- Water-wise plants that will help you save at least 7,000 gallons of water over the garden’s lifetime (compared to the same area covered by Kentucky bluegrass).
Denver Water has partnered with Resource Central since 2014 to offer these popular, water-wise Garden In A Box kits. Please note: There are a limited number of discounts on these kits available to our residential customers for the spring and fall Garden In A Box sales.
Summer vegetable gardens, which include starter plants of peppers, squash and tomatoes, are also available for purchase during the spring sale for those interested in growing food, but are not eligible for Denver Water’s discount.
Denver Water will be handing out free water-wise grass seed at Garden In A Box pick-up events this spring and fall. Learn more about our water-wise grass mix!
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Additional resources for water-wise gardening:
- Colorado State University Extension — Find resources to help you be successful with water-wise flowers, vegetable plants, trees, shrubs and more.
- Plant Select — Look for the Plant Select label at your local garden store when buying plants that thrive in the high plains and Rocky Mountain regions. Developed through a nonprofit collaboration of CSU, Denver Botanic Gardens and professional horticulturists, this resource can help you pick the right plant for the right place.
- Denver Botanic Gardens — Denver Botanic Gardens has long been a trusted resource for learning about the right plant for the right place when replacing turfgrass, growing vegetables or using containers to beautify a small outdoor space.
- DIY Landscape Transformation Guide — The Colorado Water Conservation Board, Resource Central and Denver Water created a step-by-step guide to creating water-wise landscapes.