Bookcase Stones
Add Your Name to Our Bookcase Stone "Library"   

Another way to marry our library and our hardscaping is with these bookcase stones that rest securely on steel shelves. Benefactors may enscribe their names, their organization's name, or the names of loved ones on these truly long-lasting "book" spines. Celebrate your love of books and gardens at the same time. A bookcase stone donation is available at $300 per stone, including enscription.

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Garden Path Engraved Flagstones
Make For a Loving, Lasting Legacy

Generously sized flagstones, with your name, your business, or a quotation that inspires can be enscribed on these large stones that provide a path through the Demonstration Garden. Garden path flagstones stones are a wonderful opportunity to leave a truly lasting legacy or memorial. Price for an enscribed flagstone is approximately $1500 but could vary with the size, complexity of the message you choose.

Love Books, Reading?  Consider Donating to the Literary Garden

The Literary Garden envisions a marriage of gardens and literature and honors our partnership with the Durango Public Library.

The Literary Garden is being designed and built around themes found in many of our favorite books, poems, and other works of literature that have been inspired by nature and gardens. Library staff has offered input on authors who have made gardens and nature central to their writing. This information is guiding us in plant and tree selection, art, and other features of the garden. The new garden also will incorporate innovative ideas in water conservation and retention.

The Garden will be comprised of six planting beds, each devoted to a different literary genre or tradition, including Indigenous Peoples, Youth, the Southwest, Latinx, Contemporary, and the Classics.

We hope this garden encourages reading and expands our knowledge of different literary traditions and, in so doing, enhances our respect for cultural diversity.  VISIT THE LITERARY GARDEN HOME PAGE

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Art in the Gardens

Outdoor art has had a place in our gardens from their inception and now we are expanding our art presence in the garden with new pieces. In 2021 a stunning, 75’ long mural, featuring plants common to our region and varying microclimates will adorn the parking lot retaining wall between the library and the Riverside Professional Building. The mural is being produced by Nia Sturr, a professional muralist. The mural is funded by donations and a grant from the Creative Economy Commission.

We are also adorning our gardens with intricately designed laser-cut metal panels. Several panels have been produced so far but there’s room for more. Not sure what design you would like? Call us at 970-880-4841 for more information and to be put in contact with an artist for ideas that will make the panel special for you.

Help us make the Durango Botanic Gardens one of the premier locations for art in Durango as well as having the satisfaction of supporting local artists and the creative arts industry.

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Contact

NOTE: Our physical location is 1900 E. Third Avenue, at the Durango Public Library. The gardens are located to the north and east of the library, along the Animas River Trail.

Mailing Address:

Durango Botanic Gardens

10 Town Plaza, #460

Durango, CO  81301

Phone: 970-880-4841
Email: durangobotanic@gmail.com