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Sue's Natural Landscape

 Sue and Bruce, working without a landscape consultant, landscaped their yard after building their house on the lot. The landscaping is designed to reflect a natural landscape, using native plants as much as possible, with a goal of increasing pollinator and wildlife habitat.  

Aerial view of a house with solar panels in a cul-de-sac.

Before planting

Before planting

Before planting

Prior to landscaping, the vegetation consisted of ponderosa pines, skunk brush, and sumac and an assortment of weeds. Sue employed a variety of techniques to eliminate the weeds. In essence, beyond keeping some of the pines, Sue was working with a blank palette.

Landscaping

Before planting

Before planting

 The landscaping is designed to reflect a natural landscape, using native plants as much as possible, with a goal of increasing pollinator and wildlife habitat.

Accent Plants

Accent Plants

Accent Plants

The landscaping is designed to reflect a natural landscape, using native plants as much as possible, with a goal of increasing pollinator and wildlife habitat.

Lawn areas

Accent Plants

Accent Plants

Most of the lawn areas are planted with Sheep Fescue (Festuca ovine), a low-growing, non-native, non-aggressive cool season bunch grass. One weed whacking a year is all it needs most years.

SUE'S PLANTINGS

Trees

  • Little Leaf Linden—Harvest Gold
  • Gambel Oak
  • Quaking Aspen
  • Canada Red Cherry

Vines

  •  Western White Clematis
  • Blue Rock Clematis 

Ground covers

  •  Snowdrop Anemone
  • Red and Pink Pussy-Toes
  • Kinnikinnick uva-ursi “Massachusetts' Silver Brocade Artemisia, Mugwort, Wormwood
  • Purple Rockcress
  • Alpine Cerastium
  • Snow-in-Summer
  • Ozark Sundrop
  • Creeping Phlox
  • Elfin Thyme
  • Partridge Feather
  • Creeping Speedwell
  • Hummingbird Trumpet, aka California Fuchsia, Orange Carpet

Bulbs

  •  Allium purple sensation
  • Crocus; Snowdrops
  • Daylily
  • Fritillaria Uva Vulpis
  • Iris, dwarf Dutch
  • Narcissus 

Grasses

  •  Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass
  • Blue Fescue, both Boulder Blue and Elijah Blue
  • Blue Oat Grass
  • Little Bluestem, 'the Blues’

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