By Laurie Zitterkopf, Nebraska Extension Master Gardener
For too many people, the words “native wildlife garden” conjures up images of scruffy meadows filled with an impenetrable tangle of prickly brambles, crabgrass, and overgrown flowers flopping over each other and onto sidewalks and driveways-in short. This hot horticultural mess can drive the neighbors crazy. But “a native wildlife garden does not have to be messy. Check out our local native plantings in the parking lots of Scottsbluff.Â