How these plants got here
Orchards, shelterbelts, and the escapees that became problems. Why the plants we choose today become the landscape of the next century.
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How Plants Got to Montana: Orchards, Shelterbelts, and the Ones That Got Away
Almost nothing growing in Montana is from Montana.
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What Montana's First Peoples Knew About These Plants
You can buy all five of these plants at a nursery this spring. Camas, serviceberry, chokecherry, wild bergamot, yarrow. They are garden plants now, listed in…
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The Rise and Fall of the Montana Orchard
There is a story Montanans tell about the first apple tree in their state, and the story is wrong.
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The Plants That Got Away in Montana
Look up whether a Norway maple is a noxious weed in Montana and page after page will tell you that it is, but they are wrong: not imprecise, not behind on the…
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