SHORT-SEASON, HIGH-ALTITUDE GARDENING BULLETIN 862
Landscaping with
native plants
INTRODUCTION
There are many reasons to consider a native plant landscape in Idaho’s shortseason, high-altitude regions, including water savings, decreased maintenance, healthy...
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SHORT-SEASON, HIGH-ALTITUDE GARDENING BULLETIN 862
Landscaping with
native plants
INTRODUCTION
There are many reasons to consider a native plant landscape in Idaho’s shortseason, high-altitude regions, including water savings, decreased maintenance, healthy and adapted plants, and a desire to create a local theme
around your home.
Most plants sold for landscaping are native to the eastern
United States and the moist climates of Europe.
They require acid soils, constant moisture, and humid air to survive and remain attractive.
Most also
require a longer growing season than we have available in the harshest climates of Idaho.
Choosing to landscape with these unadapted plants means
accepting the work and problems of constantly recreating a suitable artificial
environment.
Native plants will help create a landscape that is more “comfortable” in the climates and soils that surround us, and will reduce the
resources necessary to maintain the landscape.
The single major factor that infl
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