New to Old Colorado City is a houseplant and supply shop dedicated to spreading the power of plants with the people in the community! Krista Witiak visited Hapke’s Hortum to learn more about this new shop on the west side of Colorado Springs.

Clay Hapke traces his interest in bespoke house plants to a time just after moving from Illinois to Colorado Springs in 2000, where he lived in an apartment with a west-facing room filled with plants. Most of Hapke’s acquaintances know him for his 16 years in customer service at Planet Granite, but his obsession with house plants remained central enough that his house became known as “Hapke’s Hortum” — in Latin, hortum means garden.