A VISIT TO A GARDEN IN MISSOULA

Today we combined a couple of trips, one was to pick up some plants from Amber's friend in Missoula, the other was to visit Garnet Ghost Town, not too far from Missoula.

Our first stop was to a friend and co-worker of Amber's.  She's at the point in her landscaping project where she needs plants, and has been getting advice and inspiration from her friend, David, who is also a fish biologist, in addition to gardener extraordinaire, bird watcher, naturalist, and anything else earth-friendly that you can think of.  And, his wife is a botanist.  David thinned out some of his plants, all of which are native plants, and potted them, leaving them on his back doorstep for Amber.

In his spare time (?) David gives classes at the Montana Natural History Center, and maintains a blog at montanawildlifegardener.blogspot.com. Amazing things he has done with his yard.  He has used recycled sidewalk to make the walkways through his garden, which he describes in detail on his blog.
After taking lots of pictures and loading up the plants, we embarked on our second adventure of the day.