I have the ability to grow plants almost all year in Arizona. What struck me right away living summers in Yellowstone National Park for five months is the short growing season up here. We have early and late spring wildflowers.
Then on to early and late summer wildflowers.
Then we’re in to fall and back to brown grasses, occasional snows and the aspen trees turning their beautiful golds and rust colors.
We live from “brown to brown” working and touring here in Yellowstone. Fast or slow though—it’s such an incredible place to live and work all summer.
Or you can drive up to the Beartooths and make spring wildflower time extend even later into the season. Wildflowers are certainly gone in my neck of the woods. But the peeling bark on the manzanita trees provides a close up of interest.