The Rocky Mountain Native Plant Primer

Bring Your Garden to Life-and Life to Your Garden


From two of the Rocky Mountain Region's leading horticulturists and native plant experts, this accessible and colorful guide to planting and designing with natives will help gardeners at every level of experience bring beneficial creatures into their home gardens. The Rocky Mountain Native Plant Primer introduces 225 wildflowers, grasses, cacti, shrubs, and trees across a broad range, including: northern New Mexico, northern Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, much of Idaho and Montana, the Texas Panhandle, and the western halves of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. As the Rocky Mountains and High Plains grow in population, temperatures rise, and water becomes scarce, this book focuses on the role that native plants and water-wise planting can have in fostering sustainability for all life in the region.