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
- (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
- (UW Extension Pub B-1146R)
- ( UW Extension Pub B-1239R)
- (UW Extension Pub B-1170R)
- (UW Extension Pub B-1152)
- (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
- (series of videos about flowers and bulbs)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Videos
Irrigation
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Videos
- (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
- (companion site for the book published in March 2014)
- (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: and
- (Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation)
- (Utah State University Cooperative Extension)
- (Utah State University Cooperative Extension)
- ( discusses types of nests you can provide and how to reduce pest and pathogens)(Xeces Society for Invertebrate Conservation)
- (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.
- (find hummingbird arrival dates here)
Videos
- (UWyo Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- (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 , UW Extension Pub B-1340)
- (Barnyards & Backyard Live!)
- (research based from various universities)
- (Colorado State University Extension)
- (Wyoming Game and Fish Department)
- (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
- (University of California)
- (links to wildlife resources, not just pesticide related)
- (Rutgers Article)
- (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
- (companion site for the book published in March 2014)
- (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
- (Vail, CO)
- (Denver, CO)
- (Salt Lake, UT)
- (Fort Collins, CO)
- (Lakewood, CO)
- (Steamboat Springs, CO)
