Low-Water Gardening Made Easy

The Garden In A Box program makes it easy to transform your yard into a beautiful, drought-tolerant oasis helping you to use less water on your landscaping year after year. Each spring and summer, we offer a selection of professionally designed, low-water garden kits tailor-made for Colorado yards. These do-it-yourself kits include quart-sized perennial plants, plant-by-number maps, seasonal maintenance suggestions, and watering schedule recommendations. Ditch thirsty turf grass and plant a new perspective with Garden In A Box!

How it Works

The Garden In A Box program offers two times to purchase gardens during the gardening season:

- Pre-order in March for pickup and planting in May and June.
- Pre-order in June for pickup and planting in August and September.

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Measure your space and determine the sun exposure.
When available, pre-order your Garden In A Box online here.
Remove lawn, if needed.
Our kits are designed to replace sections of non-functional lawns for the most water-saving impact.
Pick up your Garden In A Box order.
Plant and mulch your new Garden In A Box.
After the first year, dial back the water and begin saving.

Garden In A Box Benefits: Watering can icon with the text "Save Water with Low Water Plants" Hand with seedling icon with the text "Easy - Green Thumbs Not Required" Three flower icons with the text "Start Plants for Instant Curb Appeal" Butterfly icon with the text "Attract the 'Locals'" Shopping tag with leaf icon with the text "Pro Design Without The Cost" Photos in the shape of a hexagon: purple flowers, woman kneeling in garden with plant by number plan, orange flowers with butterfly

55% of residential water use on the Front Range is used outdoors, mostly on lawns!

As a small nonprofit, we rely on volunteer support to help distribute these Garden In A Box kits to thousands of customers across the Front Range each year. Volunteering at garden pickup events is a fun way to support low-water landscaping in your community and meet others who share your love for gardening. We need volunteers during May, June, August, and September.

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Helping Rebuild after Marshall Fire

Resource Central and Community Foundation Boulder County are partnering to offer up to 500 square feet of waterwise garden kits to Marshall Fire affected homes in Boulder County. Learn more here.

Community Reviews

4.6 star rating overall

“This is a wonderful program and I am incredibly grateful to have access to it. I tell everyone about it and hope to encourage others to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to help pollinators, save water and become more aware of our impact on this planet and how we can make it better. Thank you!”

Fort Collins Utilities Participant, 2024

“I bought five kits and love all of them, as well as the amazingly done garden guides, which are so helpful for beginners like myself. We are restoring a very neglected lawn (and reducing it), and I’m so thrilled to have replaced 500+ square feet with mostly natives that are also piquing my neighbors’ interest. Thank you for all you do, and to the volunteers who ran the pickup, as it was so efficient and lovely. This is an amazing program and I’m grateful to have been able to take part in it!”

City of Brighton Participant, 2024

“Fantastic program all around! Very thorough and professional from start to finish.. ordering, picking up, educational materials, etc. Very pleased with and proud of my city for participating/offering this. Will buy again next year to replace more lawn!”