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I have a difficult time with pricing also. A basic planting plan is a no brainer but if you want something special, it takes time. Same thing for hard scape and site amenities. Plop and drop from a catalog vs. custom is a huge difference in time and skill.

Look into North American Rock Garden Society. They have a nice forum on their site, that you can look through. I joined the local chapter and have learned a whole lot about alpines and rock gardens. Many of the rock garden plants are the same as what you can use on green roofs.
So sedums and succulants are the easiest to work with, silene,…[Read more]

@nrschmid, your fashion sense is not mine nor Joan Rivers, who gave Hiilary an Aplus for dress – I personally love her collars and her brain..condeleeza was a Bush whore, sold us down the river over the Iraq war, but she could look good – I don’t think anyone respects her at all anymore – if ever there was a token step and fetchit  in office, she…[Read more]

Well here are many of their exhibit plant lists (expand each section):
 
http://www.cmzoo.org/animalsPlants/plants/zooGardens.asp

Yes, I was referring to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Though it is not the same elevation, I wanted to research what they had done a little better and see what might be able to translate. Thanks everyone for the resources so far!

LAs as a profession have to work twice as hard to get noticed among architects and engineers. Know your sh*t, be nothing but professional. develop a healthy ego. and build your reputation among your peers and allied professions. Be the bridge.

And the Director of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was, in fact, formerly the Horticulturist

yeah, but you are reading her interpretation of the stats..
 

I live in a mountain area and am finishing up my landscape.  I have used Ribes roezlii (sierra gooseberry) it is up to 9200 ft. but there is also the golden currant (9800 ft) and the alpine currant.

I’m certain you are all thinking of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo http://www.cmzoo.org/animalsPlants/plants/?s=5 which is not in WY, but in CO.
There has never been a zoo in Cheyenne, WY. Here is the link to the botanic gardens, though http://www.botanic.org/
 

The stats in the article came from the Department of Labor and their Bureau of Labor Statistics…
 
Which, from their unemployment rate numbers, are underestimated.

Yarrow, coreopsis, echinacea, juniper, spruce, potentialla, any succulent hardy to the area (e.g. sedum)
 
check out: http://plants.gertens.com/NetPS-Engine.asp?12070009
 
Though they are located in MN, it is one of the best plant search engines I’ve come across.

not logical, Craig – if one is discussing why women are not present in 50-50 numbers, and then say the timid are left behind, the logical implication is that women are timid..
women are not timid… discrimination is based on external factors (like the color or your skin). So in blaming being left behind on being timid, you are calling women timid…[Read more]

Wow, what happened to the Cheyenne zoo – new owners? they used to have so much information on their non-irrigated landscape – how the plants were planted and maintained was extremely important to the success of the designs..weird..
 
good luck with the project, tho,  non-irrigated is my big thing where I work – buckwheat is about the only thing I…[Read more]

I disagree, I think since Murdoch bought the WSJ it should be completely written off – just can’t trust it anymore.Just look at the articles they put on the front page – completely biased…But of course, my old grey darling the NYT has been seriously compromised as well – refusing to call torture torture, Judith Miller and the Iraq War…[Read more]

Do your best work at all times and you will be finally respected. Don’t ever expect anyone to give you anything, ever……Give your best effort at everything you do….regardless of the situation you find yourself in.
I have had male and female employees….The only thing that mattered to me was talent and the ability to communicate in a…[Read more]

I think you can do it. I would also recommend the Denver Botanic Gardens – they have some really nice high elevation plant palettes. Also High Country Gardens (catalogue).
Cheyenne is not high enough elevation to be relevant. They have a pretty nice botanic garden, though. I don’t think they have a zoo. OOh – I bet you’re thinking of the C…[Read more]

Don’t dismiss the article because it was in the Journal. The Wall Street Journal is the most repected business publication in the US, and the WOMAN that wrote the article heads up a 5010(c)(3) who promotes independent womens business issues. I’m sure YOUR statistics are irrefutable.
 
The point in posting was to broaden prosepectives, and that th…[Read more]

fashion humor appreciated! hahaha