Resources
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Add Color, Texture to Winter Landscapes With These Suggestions
- Autumn Landscaping Chores
- Enjoy Indoor House Plants This Winter by Keeping Them Pest Free
- Extreme Gardening: Microclimates-Making Them Work For You
- How to Prep, Plant, and Care for Ornamental Garden Beds That Delight for Years
- Make the Most of Your Winter by Propagating Indoor Plants
- Manure Boosts Wyoming Landscapes No Matter the Source
- Nothing Complex About Cam-Plex Success
- Ordinary Fall Garden Chores Plant Opportunities for Extraordinary Next Year
- Rain Garden Design Filters, Directs Runoff From Gillette Three-Acre Parking Lot
- Starting Plants From Seed Indoors: The Basics
- The Right Plants in the Right Place: Water-wise Landscaping
Barnyards and Backyards Featured Landowners Articles
- Property Improvement Project: Adams' Property Update
- Featured Landowners: Blooming Where They are Planted
- Featured Landowners: Gardening in Laramie Valley is Like Gardening on a Different Planet
- Featured Landowners: Leanne Hutchinson & Barb Martinez
- Featured Landowners: Master Gardener Creates Peaceful Landscape With Surrounding Prairie
- Featured Landowners Rural Casper Venture Grew a Family While Cultivating Tree, Vegetable Business
- Featured Landowners: Small Acreage Near Powell Shows How Couple Overcome Wyoming Challenge
Additional Resources
- Creating Native Landscapes in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (USDA-NRCS)
- Wyoming Gardens to Visit (Visit public gardens across WY for landscaping inspiration!)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- A Guide to Growing Cut Flowers in Wyoming
- A List of Some Pollinator Friendly Plants (also a calendar of when they bloom)
- Add Plucky, Pollinator-Friendly Penstemons to Your Garden
- An Ode to the Sweet Smells of Summer (Fragrant Flowers)
- Bulbs Well-Adapted to Our Inhospitable Climate
- Featured Landowners: Blooming Where They are Planted (Cut Flowers)
- Do You Know These Native, Water-Wise Plants? Quiz
- Get Garden Beds into Tiptop Shape for Winter
- Late Summer/ Early Fall Flowering Plants Help Pollinators
- Newbie Offers Plant Suggestions to Grow Cut Flowers
- Short, Sweet, Tough (plants that tolerate Wyoming's climate)
- Starting Plants from Seed Indoors: The Basics
- These Troopers Take High Elevations, Short Growing Season in Stride
- Wildflowers Can Enhance Landscapes & Gardens
- Wyoming Wow: Consider These Wonderful Wildflowers for This Summer! (quiz with answers)
Publications and Other Resources
- Care of Flowering Potted Plants (UW Extension Pub B-1146R)
- Landscaping: Container Gardening ( UW Extension Pub B-1239R)
- Landscaping: Flowering Annuals for Wyoming (UW Extension Pub B-1170R)
- Landscaping: Herbaceous Perennials for Wyoming (UW Extension Pub B-1152)
- Plants with Altitude: Regionally Native Plants for Wyoming Gardens (companion site for the book published in March 2014)
- Water-Wise Landscaping Plants (and preventative deer damage info)
- Rocky Mountain Natives for Wyoming Landscapes (UW CES Newspaper article 2009)
- Pollinator Guide Resources for Wyoming
- Growing Roses in Laramie, WY
Videos
- Flowers and Bulbs Playlist (series of videos about flowers and bulbs)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Videos
- Efficient Landscape Drip Irrigation (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- Successfully Watering Your Garden (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Irrigation
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Videos
- Deer Damage Prevention in a Landscaping Setting (UWyo Extension)
Resource Pages
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Looking for Winners in Your Landscape? Consider These
- The Right Plants in the Right Place: Water-wise Landscaping
- To Be a Weed. To Not Be a Weed. It All Depends
- What If Had a Drought and Landscape Plants Didn't Know
Publications and Plant Guides
- visit our Native Plants Resource Page for more info
- Plants with Altitude: Regionally Native Plants for Wyoming Gardens (companion site for the book published in March 2014)
- Rangeland Plants: Wyoming Tough (UW Extension Pub B-1265)
- Water-Wise Landscaping Plants (and preventative deer damage info)
- A List of Some Pollinator Friendly Plants (also see this corresponding calendar of when they bloom)
- Water-Wise and Native Plant Demonstration Garden (The plants used in the demonstration garden in La Bonte Park, Laramie)
- The WyoScape Xeric Demonstration Garden (The plants used in the demonstration garden in Casper)
Pollinator Planting Resources
- check out our Pollinator Guide Resource Page for more information
- Sources that sell natives plants or seed: Seeds and Plants
- Establishing Pollinator Meadows From Seed (Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation)
- Gardening for Native Bees in Utah and Beyond (Utah State University Cooperative Extension)
- Gardening and Landscaping Practices for Nesting Natives Bees (Utah State University Cooperative Extension)
- Tunnel Nests for Native Bees: Nest Construction and Management ( discusses types of nests you can provide and how to reduce pest and pathogens)(Xeces Society for Invertebrate Conservation)
- Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) (Click on "Species Search" and "Regional Checklist", then State and County if desired. Then click on insect of interest to see food plants for each species.) Site has quite a few ads.
- eBird Website (find hummingbird arrival dates here)
Videos
- A Few Native Plants for Gardens (UWyo Extension)
- Maintaining Your Landscape on Limited Water (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- Native Plants for Gardens (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- Pollinator Plants (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- Water-wise Landscaping (xeriscaping) (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- Three Part Video on Water Wise plants for Wyoming (Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Preventing Deer Damage in Landscapes with Deer-Resistant Plants
- Landscaping Techniques Prevent Plants from Becoming a Wildlife Buffet
- Reducing Deer and Rabbit Damage to Woody Plants
- What's Digging in My Yard?
- Ask Sam: How can I stop moose from eating out aspen trees?
Other Publications
- Keeping Critters Out (section of Fruit & Vegetable Production Guide for Wyoming, UW Extension Pub B-1340)
- Protecting Your Fruit & Veggies from Wildlife (Barnyards & Backyard Live!)
- Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management (research based from various universities)
- Preventing Deer Damage (Colorado State University Extension)
- Urban Nuisance Wildlife (Wyoming Game and Fish Department)
- Fences and Deer-Damage Management: A Review of Designs and Efficacy (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
- Pocket Gophers IPM for Home Gardeners and Landscape Professionals (University of California)
- National Pesticide Information Center(links to wildlife resources, not just pesticide related)
- Landscape Plants Rated by Deer Resistance (Rutgers Article)
- Excluding and Repelling Problem Wildlife from the Garden (UMass Extension)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Ask Sam: Can't you have an attractive landscape that is just as wildlife friendly as a messy landscape?
- Planting for Backyards Wildlife
- Featured Property Update: Wildlife and Habitat on Property Improvement Projects
Other Publications
- Plants with Altitude: Regionally Native Plants for Wyoming Gardens (companion site for the book published in March 2014)
- Wyoming Wildscapes (WY Game & Fish, Audubon, BLM, and others)
Gardens to visit for ideas and inspiration for your own gardens!
Wyoming Gardens to Visit
- Wyoming Gardens to Visit public gardens across WY
Gardens in Surrounding States
- Betty Ford Alpine Gardens (Vail, CO)
- Denver Botanic Gardens (Denver, CO)
- Red Butte Gardens (Salt Lake, UT)
- The Gardens on Spring Creek (Fort Collins, CO)
- Kendrick Lake Park (Lakewood, CO)
- Yampa River Botanic Park (Steamboat Springs, CO)
