Montana Wildlife Gardener

Photoperiod refers to day length (length of both light and dark periods), and it causes significant physiological responses in plants and an...

Its been a while since my last post, in part because I've taken some time to do some work in the garden. A garden is never done. From ti...

A little while back a wrote how to make a house for solitary nesting bees in 5 minutes (part of my wildlife garden stuff in 5 minute series)...

A short while ago, I wrote about the yellow evening primrose ( Oenethera flava ) and the interesting and intricate role they play in our gar...

Join us Thursday night (7-8 pm) when we continue to landscape the 8th Street Pocket Park (at the corner of 8th and Grant). Learn about nati...

Here are just a couple of pictures and a short video of the fledging progress. Once they fledge, I'll post some more information and pi...

My wife recently surprised me with an early birthday present- a time-lapse, outdoor, waterproof camera for the garden ( Brinno Gardenwatch C...

Yarrow ( Achillea spp.) has been coming up a lot lately in garden conversations and I wanted to set the record straight. Is it an annoying ...

It is National Pollinator Week , and I figured a way to commemorate this was to build a mason bee nest box (more on this in a little bit)....

Do you want skippers in your garden (like the one above)? Now is your change to buy their larval host plant- the prairie Junegrass ( Koeleri...