The City of Albuquerque’s sprawling greenhouse complex up in the Heights produces plants and flowers for parks and other city facilities. Now, they want the public to get more acquainted with it.
The City of Albuquerque Greenhouse provides thousands of flowers and plants used to beautify the landscape. Three greenhouses sit on nearly five acres of land on the corner of Arroyo Del Oso Park by Wyoming and Spain. They were built around 1977 and grow plants year-round.
Dan Humbles oversees the greenhouse and said it’s a resourceful way to spend less money on plants for the city. “We seed the plants. We buy plants. We harvest plants and seeds from our parks and areas where we’ve already planted,” said City of Albuquerque Greenhouse Horticulturalist Dan Humbles.
The greenhouse grows outdoor plants used in more than 16 city parks, including the Xeriscape Garden and Oxnard Park. They provide flowers you see in the plaza in Old Town and at Civic Plaza. City officials said this year, they will be planting poinsettias for the first time in the Old Town Plaza in time for Christmas.
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