M: it sounds absolutely lovely! What a transition from 90 acres to what you have now!

As for wildfower gardens in Wyoming.....we can NEVER follow the guidelines for most growing seasons, as it is so cold, the growing season so short, AND SO DRY. If we only watered every 2 days, everything would wither and die.

One of the things that did grow for me: I'd bought a couple of those rolls out gardens, where the seeds are in a mulched, rolled up "carpet" which you unroll, scatter soil over, and water. These had been riding around in the back of my car for two summers! This year, I cut them up, placed them around in various bare patches, watered once, usually twice per day, and they are all blooming now. really, really nice.

Of course it helps to use plants which are inidgenous, but even those, to get started, will need lots of water.

It really is true that things dry up and blow away here. That's where "them Tumblin' Weeds" come from!

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