07/29/2007 02:37 PM MDT
Associated Press
LEWISTON – A University of Idaho horticulturist wants residents to be able to put more native plants in their backyards.
Stephen Love has been searching the Idaho backcountry and collecting seeds from native plants, then trying to produce more of them so they can be made available for landscaping.
He says residents want to use more native plants but can’t because they aren’t available in nurseries.
Working with grant money from the Idaho Native Plant Society, he hopes to persuade commercial nurseries to offer more choices nativeto the state.
Those will include wildflowers, plants and trees that might work for backyard gardens and amateur landscapers.