Your Community Greenhouse

Countdown to Christmas

10 days to go and the crunch has begun.  Here at Creek Side, we still have some great gifts to gather up for your friends and family. Gift Certificates  Not sure what to give?  Creek Side Gardens gift certificates are a perfect choice!  Get ready for the 2024 season with a gift that gardeners will love to spend next season. Game Night Puzzles and popcorn... Read More

Happy Holidays – Creek Side Style!

As we roll through December, our Green Team staff is excited to help you shop for the perfect gift or extra special decorations to enhance your own home.  We still have a good selection of Christmas trees, greenery, blooming plants, décor and gifts to choose from. Gift Certificates Can’t decide on that perfect gift?  Creek Side Gift Certificates are always a good option. Stop by... Read More

A Holiday Gift that is not for the Holidays

Everyone has that friend or family member that celebrates a birthday, milestone or a ‘non’ holiday event during December. Not everyone wants to receive a holiday themed gift.  Think outside the box and see what Creek Side has for you. Garden gifts – year-round Your avid gardeners can start the spring season with some new supplies, seeds, and tools.   Think about gloves, seeds, a watering... Read More

Home for the Holidays – Creek Side Style

Certainly, one of the biggest surprises for our first-time visitors is that we have a beautiful décor gift shop and boutique.  The gift shop is often the ‘go to’ place for our regular customers who can usually find a special and unique gift for themselves or the perfect hostess gift. We have some exciting new items this year to showcase for you. Holiday snacks Everyone... Read More

Rolling Through the Seasons

Many customers ask, ‘when do you close for the season?’ and are often surprised to learn that we are open until December 23rd.  It’s a little quiet after the Pumpkin Patch closes down but Creek Side Gardens is a year ’round greenhouse, garden center and nursery that keeps rolling through the seasons!  Right now, before the holidays our Green Team staff of horticultural professionals are... Read More

Welcome to Fall (Officially)!

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins galore!!   The Creek Side Courtyard is full of pumpkins of all sizes, shapes and colors!  Colors!?  Yes, pumpkins are available in a variety colors now thanks to our rich farming heritage and more widely requested heirloom varieties.  Rouge Vif d’Etampes or Cinderella Orange, Queensland Blue, Cotton Candy White, Long Island Cheese, Tan and Jarrahdale Green, not to mention our popular Warted varieties... Read More

Fall Decorating Fun!

Our days are warm and bright, but the nights are cooling off to create that inescapable feeling that we are ready to move on to the fall season.  Football is all around, vacation is over, kids are back in school and the rich earthy color tones of the fall season are creeping in. Perennial Flowers Who can resist the contentment that bright gold Black-Eyed Susan’s... Read More

Fall is in the Air

The Creek Side Gardens Grown Fresh Fall Flowers are beginning to take center stage just in time for the change in seasons.  Kids are going back to school.  Temps are cooling down.  Days are getting shorter.  If you have never planted a fall garden with fall mums and pansies or planted a new tree or shrub in the fall, then you are missing out on... Read More

Fall is for Planting!

What does that mean?  Why are we suggesting planting in the fall rather than the traditional spring planting season?  Fall is a great time for planting for several reasons! Fall Planting Recommendations The plants we are recommending for planting into the landscape in the fall are perennials, roses, shrubs, trees and bulbs, the types of plants that will survive the cold temperatures of the winter... Read More

Garden Planning for Next Year 2024

The Industry Flower Trials and Evaluation Industry leaders in west Denver hosted a flower trial this week with all the new varieties grown in containers in their greenhouse.  Container growing performance is especially important to us at Creek Side because that is our growing specialty.   Flower trials are where the flower breeding companies may introduce new varieties for the upcoming season or feature their... Read More