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Nursery Owners’ Native Plants Restore

Damaged Habitat, Thrive in Urban Yards

“The fall colors are gorgeous when we’re
gathering, but, like all our favorite things,
it doesn’t last long enough.”
They envision how the seeds
will germinate in spring in their
4,000-square-foot, climate-controlled
greenhouse south of McCall.
Sprouting dogwood seeds look like frog
eggs, a soup of round brown spheres the
size of tapioca. As tiny shrub seedlings
sprout and push off their seed cap, they look
like characters in a Dr. Seuss book.
In full bloom, the greenhouse becomes
a living landscape painting of colorful
wildflowers—Indian paintbrush, rosy
pussytoes, pearly everlasting, scarlet
gilia, purple monkey flower, yellow and
blue columbines, balsamroot, red and
purple penstemons, sticky purple gera-
nium and mallows.
Since 1994, companies and govern-
ment agencies have been relying on their
Cheers to native plants. To supply a variety of markets, Jim Crawford and Margo Conitz raise native plants nursery to provide native plants of the
at Twin Peaks Native Plant Nursery near McCall. Photo courtesy Twin Peaks Native Plant Nursery. Intermountain Northwest for habitat resto-
ration. The nursery is a premier provider of
countless native plant seeds for their Twin perennial wildflowers, wetland and upland
BY DIANNA TROYER Peaks Native Plant Nursery in western grasses, conifers, trees, and shrubs.
Idaho. From late August to November, they “Our plants are used for habitat
The season of seed-gathering is in temper their painstaking task with humor. improvement, mining reclamation, ero-
full swing for Jim Crawford and Margo “Gotta get some conifer cones before sion control projects, and campground
Conitz, who patiently pluck, sort, and clean the squirrels get them all,” Conitz joked. improvement,” Crawford said. “We’re

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