Design, Garden, & Travel by Majestic Meadows
Join us for outdoor adventures, as well as useful and inspiring tips to create wonderful spaces inside and outside of your own home
When designing a garden, you'll want to create an appealing space, provide structure, and habitat—just like in nature. The forests around our home are perfect examples of layered gardens, with towering canopy trees, understory trees, shrubs, perennials, and ground cover all working together to support wildlife. By applying these natural layers to your garden, you… Continue reading Three Keys to Landscape Design
Can you believe we've been in the house for just over a year? Jim and I have spent a lot of time in the garden. We've accomplished a lot, including creating a native meadowscape garden around the house and an edible garden. We're still enjoying fresh strawberries, kale, Swiss chard, cucumbers, beets and more. It… Continue reading Lee Ridge Trail
The garden areas around the house are starting to look pretty good. The driveway garden looks great with blooming peonies, pops of color from the stonecrop, funky flowers on the Rosy Pussytoes and the leaves on the Canada Red Chokecherry are all reddish-purple now. This bed has a lot of interest, and we are really… Continue reading Mountain Meadowscape Update
My hubby, Jim and I had a small edible garden in South Florida, where we grew leaf lettuce, tomatoes, snow peas and peppers. We also had a couple of fruit trees, including a Nam Doc Mai mango we still miss to this day. On our 12.5-acre property in NW Montana we have room to put… Continue reading Edible Garden
Although calendar spring is less than a month away, historically in NW Montana the last frost can occur in early June. It's been an unusually warm winter, including very little snow and it feels a lot like spring already. At least it has rained and hopefully, the snow or rain will continue through June to… Continue reading Meadowscaping with Natives
Once the house was finished, we were able to get a few plants in the ground near the house before winter. Most of them are native pollinator perennials, which should take root and grow a little next summer. In addition, we added native bunchgrass and wildflower seeds around the house and a large area to… Continue reading Garden Spaces
As you can imagine, building a new home wreaks havoc on a landscape. We have a lot of restoration to do around our house, as well as a large area going from the house to our well and septic field. We've spent time assessing our site, which includes soil testing, notating shade and sun patterns,… Continue reading Garden Restoration
Living in a wildland urban interface means we need to prepare for wildfires potentially impacting our home and property. We're lucky because there is a lot more information about building and living in high fire risk areas today than in the past. Studies have found as many as 80% of homes lost to wildfires could… Continue reading Firewise Home & Garden
It's exciting to finally be in the new house! Our builder, J Martin Builders pushed the subcontractors to get a lot done, so we could move out of the rental. That means we've also got a few things left to be done or corrected, which is common in new builds. In today's post, I'll share… Continue reading Interior Design Update
One of the many things we love about NW Montana is its wild places, national parks, national forests, wild and scenic rivers and crystal-clear lakes. It's a privilege to own a small piece of this paradise and we loved being able to work in the garden this past weekend. We've been dreaming of Montana for… Continue reading Native Garden – Majestic Meadows
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