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Bitterroot Secret Garden Tour: An Eco-friendly, Native Plant Garden
21.08.2024 - 06:34 / finegardening.com / GPOD Contributor
Hey GPODers!
We’re continuing on our virtual 2024 Bitterroot Secret Garden Tour™ today, visiting the wildlife- and pollinator-friendly garden of Mary Byers.
Mary learned basic gardening knowledge in her parent’s vegetable garden in Wyoming but her personal journey began in the early ‘90s in Western Montana where she began fostering orphan plants at Bitterroot Native Growers where she worked. The hardiness of those plants in her dry yard was the inspiration to keep planting more native species. Growing organic food evolved alongside nurturing the native species she was learning about. An early memory was of her grandmother’s driveway in rural Pennsylvania which held a bed of tiger lilies and symbolized “arrival at Grandma’s place” one of her favorite places. There was a subsistence vegetable garden her grandmother tended and any rabbits that dared venture in for a nibble found themselves in the soup pot along with the home grown vegetables. Grandma was a crack shot.
The climate in Wyoming where she grew up was not much different than here in Montana so her learning curve was mild. Mary was a self-employed textile artist and subsidized her income by working at Bitterroot Restoration and Great Bear Restoration and also assisted as a wilderness guide in Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons and Southern Utah. Exposure to wildflowers in nature inspired her to recreate some of the beauty and habitat she witnessed on the trails.
Mary’s sense of need for native plantings in suburban settings has been validated in Doug Tallamy’s book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” for benefit to insects and animals that have evolved here. He writes, “In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life,
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