By any landscape designer’s definition, they’re
not superstars. I’ve never seen them grace the glossy pages of Better Homes and Gardens. But they’re native to the area and tough enough
for these dry, alkaline, clay soils as well as drought and temperature extremes.
So I’ve chosen basin big sagebrush, rubber rabbitbrush, and Gardner’s saltbush to
transplant into the cabin’s “back yard”. Even when they’re grown into their
glory, they probably won’t tempt any garden magazine photographers, but the
wildlife and bees will be happy for the habitat—and so will I because I won’t have to be
watering my shrubs!
“For consider
your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly
standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God
chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is
weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised
in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things
that are.” –1 CORINTHIANS 1:26-28 (ESV)
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