Visitors can enjoy the blooms beginning in late June. Park staff recently restored and rehabilitated the garden, allowing Kohrs’ legacy and favorite plants to endure.
Over time, her garden and its geometric shapes became a blend of brightly colored and strong-smelling annuals, perennials, bulbs and roses mixed with hardy native plants. Kohrs cultivated the space well into her 80s, thanks to her grandson’s 1934 modifications that improved the garden’s accessibility. Her garden - with its large flower beds, lilac hedge, cobble rock walls, stone terraces and sand walkways - provided a sense of order and elegance around the main ranch house.
at the time, Victorian gardens were rare in the West. While common in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S.
camera icon NPS/Grant-Kohrs RanchĪs a young bride in the late 1860s, Augusta Kohrs sought to bring Victorian refinement to the rugged Montana cattle ranch now known as Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site where her husband ran a cattle empire. A variety of annuals, perennials and native flowers bloom in the Victorian garden at Montana’s Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site.
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