Wildflowers in a native grass meadow

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to your home with native plant landscaping. Create a refuge for local wildlife and pollinators right outside your door. Habitat gardens also provide beautiful, natural sanctuaries for your family.

Prairie-inspired gardens and meadows of native grasses and wildflowers are habitat to numerous creatures, all while being easy to maintain and stunningly beautiful.

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Rubber rabbitbrush is an iconic, Autumn-blooming superstar native to the high plains. @plantselect made an attractive dwarf form of this shrub readily available (Ericameria nauseosa v. nauseosa,) and accessibility is always welcome when it comes to
Hell-strip planted pocket prairie. Happy Labor day. It's important to put the tools down, take the work boots off and enjoy your results. #landscaping #prairie #hellstripgardening #prairiegrass #yucca #wildflowers #ecological #horticulture #urba
The Plains Conservation Center offers a great nearby opportunity to explore native short grass prairie and wildlife. The center offers some educational programs as well. "In 1948, the center was established when the land was located at the en
Side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) poking up in a seeded prairie grass lawn alternative. We had our client watering this area similar to a traditional lawn this year to get it established, but in the future it will require much less supplement
Luscious Datura wrightii flowers open in the morning sun. Easy to grow and pollinator-friendly plant for a xeric landscape. Seeds were sown last fall and the plants received little to no supplemental water this year. #xeriscape #drygarden #horticu
Checked in on a lawn replacement we seeded earlier this year. Lovely blue grama seed heads already catch the eye and give a glimpse into how this pocket prairie will look at maturity. #xeric #sustainable #lawnreplacement #killyourlawn #pocketprair
Some random reasons to love Bluff Lake Nature Center. 1) Debris piles! Makes a nice animal den 2) Wildflowers 3) Tunnels for your kids to crawl through 4) Native shrubs (landscaping inspiration) 5) Trash filtration!! 6) Milkweed Great spot for wa
Sweat bees and sphecid wasps visiting Achillea millefolium. This landscape was planted with the help of a habitat fund grant from @peopleandpollinators, so we have been cataloging some of the pollinators that have been showing up. This is in downt
Now blooming. Penstemon pinifolius Tradescantia occidentalis Gailardia aristata Achillea millefolium #nativeplants #landscaping #prairiegarden #xeriscape #drygarden #pollinatorplants #flowers #colorado #denver
Some of the plants we like for Spring flowers. Geum triflorum Amsonia jonesii Prunus besseyi "Pawnee Buttes" Pulsatilla patens #nativeplants #landscaping #spring #flowers #horticulture #prairiegarden #xeriscape
Plant spotlight: Achnatherum hymenoides Cool season bunch grass we planted in plugs in a sunny and sandy hell strip. "Indian rice grass was probably the most valuable wild grass utilized by Native Americans of the Southwest. It is a perennial
Mail day from Colorado Native Plant Society! @coloradonps Ordered some books and pamphlets after seeing their table at the Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants conference. Excited about all of these, and Rick Brune's prairie garden in Lakewood,
Some overwintering Colorado natives. Monarda fistulosa Ipomopsis aggregata Fragaria virginiana #nativeplants #horticulture
Checked on a planting we installed 10 weeks ago. We designed this for a historic church-turned-commercial property in downtown Denver. Many of the prairie grasses and forbs have already established themselves quite a bit! We also used a good mix of
Hidden Mesa native plant pollinator garden in Franktown, CO. Coming across this garden a few years ago was really inspirational, although everything was dormant then. It's set up like a botanic garden with the species tagged for public education. T
Collection of native shrubs from @littlevalleywholesalenursery Artemisia tridentata - amazing fragrance! #nativeplants #prairiegardens #landscaping #xeric #waterwise #sage #horticulture #wildones #habitatgarden
Native prairie grass plugs grown from seed in a peat-free container soil. Peat bogs take millions of years to form, and harvesting the material for container soil is not only a non-sustainable practice, but also releases tons of sequestered carbon i
Solarizing this front yard with the aim of establishing native grasses and more in the coming years. This process kills invasive species and water-wasting turf grass in an eco-friendly way, so that we can make room for native grasses, shrubs and for