There are so many beautiful plants that are native to Idaho that can be used to landscape around your home. These plants include many different colors, shapes, heights and peak seasons for blooming! By using native plants, you can help keep a beautiful landscape almost year-round with little effort on your part. Let the Idaho seasons begin!
Reasons for having native landscape plants include; the short-seasons here in Idaho, native plants have adapted to our regions, native plants have lower water use, and they take less labor and maintenance. Who wouldn’t want to have a native landscape with all of those amazing perks?
Information on landscaping with native plants can be found at University of Idaho’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences website.
Picking your favorite native plants may be the hardest part of changing your landscape to a native landscape as there are so many beautiful options to choose from.
Check out a list of native plants at the University of Idaho’s website and this article on Landscaping with Native Plants of the Intermountain Region.
When using native plants to create your landscape you are also helping provide wildlife habitat, improving your soils, and helping your local pollinators. You will reduce your water use as these plants were made to survive Idaho. You will create a beautiful scenery for yourself, a place for pollinators to roam, and a home for wildlife.
Information on how your native landscape is helping provide wildlife with habitat visit Washington State University’s website.