From two of Colorado’s leading native plant experts, this accessible and colorful guide to planting natives will help gardeners at every level of experience add beneficial pollinators to their home gardens. Your garden can make a difference when you choose plants native to our Rocky Mountain region. From reducing maintenance tasks, to waterwise planting, to attracting earth-friendly pollinators such as native birds, butterflies, and bees, the rewards found in this book will benefit you and your backyard's ecosystem. In The Rocky Mountain Native Plant Primer, native plant experts Bryan Fischer and Lauren Springer make adding and designing with these superstar plants easier than ever before, with proven advice that every home gardener can follow. This incomparable guide includes recommended native trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, wildflowers, grasses, sedges, and annuals. It’s everything you need to know to create a beautiful and beneficial garden, perfect for gardeners in northern New Mexico, northern Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, much of Idaho and Montana, the Texas Panhandle, and the western halves of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.