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Vertical Gardening

Straw Bale Wall- Stucco

Tiger Eyes Sumac

Veronicas

Hot Wings Tartarian Maple

Xeric Plants Workshop

Purple Robe Locust

Yellowhorn

Western River Birch

Russian Hawthorn

Prairie Jewel Penstemon

Pine Needle Penstemon

Pikes Peak Penstemon

Orange Carpet Hummingbird Trumpet

Mexican Hat Coneflower

Mesa Verde Ice Plant

La Veta Lace Geranium

Little Trudy Catmint

Jupiters Beard flower

Hopvine

Grass and Penstemon Combination.

Denver Gold Columbine

Crystal Rivers Veronica

Blue Velvet Honeysuckle

Blue Oat Grass

Chocolate Flower

Seafoam Artemisia

The Cheyenne Horticultural Field Station: A Wyoming Treasure

Established in 1928, the mission was to research dry land conditions and to aid horticulture development in the West. For 46 years the Station field-tested thousands of fruits and vegetables as well as ornamental trees and shrubs. The research needs of the USDA changed and in 1974 trials ended having tested 1,300 woody ornamental plants, 200 trees/shrubs for windbreaks, 2,000 fruit varieties and 8,000 vegetables! Afterwards, interested staff volunteered and did what they could but it was not the priority of the station.

After twenty years interest in the facility was renewed. Nurseries began to search for new plants that were hardy in the West’s difficult soils and climate. In 1974, 250 species had survived. Many of these trees and shrubs have now been propagated and made available to the nursery trade. The property has now recently been deeded to the city of Cheyenne and their botanic garden and will have a secure future to showcase horticultural possibilities at elevation in the wind, dryness, hail, abrupt temperature changes and alkaline soils.

The Wyoming Plant Company is proud to offer a number of these plants, not only as beautiful ornamentals but also as true Wyoming survivors. We applaud the men and women who traveled the globe in those early years to collect such gems, those who tended trials on the open plain, those who weeded and watered in the hiatus years and the new plant finders who championed these selections.