Landscaping With Native Plants

Landscaping With Native Plants I prepare plant designs for gardeners in Southwestern Montana using native plants.
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Landscaping using predominantly native plants is one of the very best ways an individual can significantly help restore our environment. My designs incorporate plants that grow in Montana as well as southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba; western North and South Dakota, and Nebraska; and eastern Wyoming and Colorado. My designs are based on the ecology of each area and take full advantage of nat

ive plant landscaping -- saving water and saving money on plants since perennial native plants don't have to be replaced every year; supporting native wildlife such as birds and butterflies; and requiring much less maintenance.

Our snowberries along our driveway are putting out ... snowberries! They serve to help keep snow from drifting into th...
09/09/2026

Our snowberries along our driveway are putting out ... snowberries! They serve to help keep snow from drifting into the driveway. The berries aren't "first on menu" for birds, but they hold shape and nutrient deep into the winter and act as "in reserve" berries when things get tough.

A bee visiting our profuse Maximillian Sunflower "forest."
09/08/2026

A bee visiting our profuse Maximillian Sunflower "forest."

If you see bumblebees but perhaps not many honeybees in your native plant beds, it might be because honeybees like to st...
09/08/2026

If you see bumblebees but perhaps not many honeybees in your native plant beds, it might be because honeybees like to stay within a 1-2 mile radius of their hives. But the US Fish and Wildlife Service recently posted the results of a "bumblebee tracking study" they did using tiny transmitters. They found:

🐝One bumble bee flew 3.5 miles before turning back. That afternoon, it did the same round trip again, covering at least 14 miles in one day
🐝A second bee skipped the return flight and carved out a 10 mile loop
🐝A third crossed the Mississippi River 30 times in four days.

The way spring and summer unfolded here in SW Montana, some of our native plants like these penstemon are putting out th...
09/08/2026

The way spring and summer unfolded here in SW Montana, some of our native plants like these penstemon are putting out third blooms! It's been a fabulous "bee bonus"!

The current state of our alpine currents "getting their autumn on." Great bird berries!
09/05/2026

The current state of our alpine currents "getting their autumn on." Great bird berries!

We cut our rabbit brush down to about knee high and thinned it out last fall. "Browsed it" so to speak like it would ge...
09/04/2026

We cut our rabbit brush down to about knee high and thinned it out last fall. "Browsed it" so to speak like it would get browsed in the wild. It's now nearly head height again and chock full of bees.

Finch Family Feeds a Fledgling. This is one of the second finch broods of the season in our native plant yard.
08/31/2026

Finch Family Feeds a Fledgling. This is one of the second finch broods of the season in our native plant yard.

Plants expand when they are happy. Apparently our white Pearly Everlasting and Maximilian sunflowers are just short of ...
08/29/2026

Plants expand when they are happy. Apparently our white Pearly Everlasting and Maximilian sunflowers are just short of giddy, because from one half-gallon pot, we have a 7-foot in diameter forest of Pearly Everlasting, and from three small Maximilian sunflower starters, they now stretch 25 feet along the back fence.

Something to keep in mind when planning.

The good thing is that both plants, like many native plants, take thinning in good spirits, so this fall after bees and a zillion little pollinators and finches in the sunflowers have at these two, we will tidy them up a bit.

Maximilian sunflowers are "naturally floppy" so if you don't "string them up" they will end up in a big sprawl - which doesn't have any implications for pollinators and later, finches that eat the seeds, but just visually, they lack a certain tidiness. 🙂

The finches had second broods in (or near) our yard this year. This is a "second brood" baby finch patiently awaiting a...
08/28/2026

The finches had second broods in (or near) our yard this year. This is a "second brood" baby finch patiently awaiting a parent to fly back from the Maximillian sunflowers with a little finchy snack. Love those eyebrows!

Rabbitbrush is a multiple pollinator thriller. And because it grows in harsh spots (dry roadsides and hot prairie) in "...
08/28/2026

Rabbitbrush is a multiple pollinator thriller. And because it grows in harsh spots (dry roadsides and hot prairie) in "the wild" and gets heavily browsed upon by mule deer, pronghorn, elk, and jackrabbits, we can do a "serious prune" on ours and the next season, it springs right back!

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Bozeman, MT
59718

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Wednesday 12am - 11:45pm
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