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This people-oriented
energy-sustainable botanic garden is centered around a 6,800
square foot three-sectioned conservatory (heated with passive
solar energy), which features an herb garden, a koi pond, a
worm farm, a waterfall, exotic vines and tropical trees,
ornamental flowers, bedding plants for the Cheyenne park
system, and a vegetable garden for food distribution programs.
Six acres of grounds display a cacti garden, a rose trial
garden, a medicinal herb garden, a lily pond, an annual flower
display, a dry stream bed featuring zoned low water use
plants, perennial gardens, the Peace Garden, a sensory garden,
a community garden, a wheelchair orchard, and a xeriscape
planting. Future gardens include a Dwarf Conifer Garden, a Wet
Stream and High Plains Garden, a Rose and Healing Garden, and
a Children's Landscape.
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