March can be a blustery month in Montana. It introduces spring, but weather can be inconsistent. Greenhouses, however, can boost production of warm weather plants. In Hamilton, there' a particularly exotic greenhouse. ABC Acres property manager Dalton Brown invited NBC Montana into the ABC Acres Tropical Botanical Garden.
The garden seems a world away from a Montana March day.
"We're in a jungle," exclaimed Dalton, as he showed us some of the shiny leaved plants that thrive here. "This is our papaya. We've got passion fruit. Different gingers. A whole bunch of really cool things that you'd normally find in Florida or Hawaii."
"All," he said, " are able to grow here year-round happily."
Through a carefully controlled environment, Dalton Brown said the greenhouse pushes the boundaries of what you can grow in Montana.
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