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
Several of the landscape designers I admire suggest using photographs to gain new insight into your garden. Changing your point of view in the garden will help you identify areas that need varying textures, sizes or shapes. It can help provide insight on ideal locations for seating, what draws your eye and what you might… Continue reading Garden Perspectives
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
Owning forested property in NW Montana is a dream come true for us. It's also a privilege, which my hubby Jim and I take very seriously. A healthy forest includes managing the trees, plants and animals that belong on this land. Luckily, three organizations, Montana DNRC, US Forest Service and Montana State University's Extension Forestry… Continue reading Forest Stewardship Plan
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
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
My hubby, Jim and I have been dreaming about and "building" our house via SketchUp since we bought the property in 2018. It's been amazing to watch our vision get turned into a home. We both love Mid-Century Modern design, which inspired the house now overlooking the Swan Range. We've both learned a lot and… Continue reading Garden Design – Majestic Meadows
San Grato botanical gardens are a mecca for park visitors and plant lovers – particularly in April and May, when the azaleas and rhododendrons form a fragrant carpet. The San Grato gardens are situated above Lake Lugano on the hills of Carona, between Monte San Salvatore and Monte Arbostora. From Lugano, take a bus to… Continue reading San Grato Parc – Lugano Switzerland
