Pollinator Bed At Depot Trail
1. Use native plants as they are adapted to your area and the local pollinators
2. Ants, bats, bees, moths, butterflies, flies, beetles and birds can all be pollinators.
3. Eliminate the use of chemicals. Use compost or worm casting for growing healthy plants.
4. Include host plants for caterpillars- they usually eat only one plant variety.
5. Provide a shallow tray for water and one with clay mud for Mason bees & butterflies.
6. Avoid hybrids, especially those with double flowers. They have reduced or missing, pollen and nectar for pollinators.
7. Provide a variety of flower shapes and colors. Use plants that bloom from early spring to fall. Use non-invasive plants.
8. Make a nesting habitat for bees by having dead trees or limbs available. Some bees dwell underground in sandy soil.
9. Cluster 5 to 7 plants (or more) of any one variety together, making it easier for pollinators to find those plants.
Total bed area 2,830 SF - pink design 240sf.
Plants Include:
Bright green indicates USA natives
H = host N = nectar P = pollen
- Wax begonia , P
- S.K. Artemisia , P
- Purple basil
- Rose alyssum, H/N
- Lamium, H/N
- Parsley, H/N
- Borage, H/N
- Fennel / dill, H/N
- Dragon blood sedum, N
- Petunia, N
- Chives, N
- Shasta daisy, N
- Phlox, N
- Dwarf iris, N
- Lemon thyme, N
- Zinnia, N
- Chionodoxa bulbs, N
- Boltonia, N
- Monarda, N
- Veronica, N
- Hyssop (Agastache anice), N
- Cosmos, N
- Coneflower, N
- Cleome, H/N
- Zizia, H/N
- Swamp milkweed, H/N
- Milkweed, H/N
- Joe Pye Weed, H/N
- Pink forget me not, N
- Violets, H
- Aster, H/N
- Hollyhock, H/N
- Hibiscus, H/N
- Spearmint, H/N
- Queen anne's lace, H/N
- Butterfly bush, N
- Crocosmia, N
- Hemerocallis, N
- Lunaria- money plant, N
- Lemon balm, N
- Yarrow, N
- Common primrose, N
- Golden rod, N
- Spiderwort, N
- Lupine, N
- Tiger lily bulbs, N
- Wild ginger, H
- Red columbine, H
- Larkspur, H/N
- Liatris, H/N
- Black walnut, H/N
- Cherry tree, H
- Clover (Eur), N
- Lily of valley, N
- Lamb ears, N
- Sweet woodruff, N
- Muscari, N
- Rose of Sharon, N
- Catmint, N
- Lilac, N
- Daffodils, P
- Eastern red cedar, P
- Wild geranium, N
- Penstemon beardstongue, N
- Green-False Solomon seal, N
- Spiderwort, N
- Green-Solomon seal host, N
- Mullein, H/N
- Giant poke weed, H/N
- Mayapple, H
- Grasses, H
- Red twig dogwood, N
- Button bush, N
- Ninebark, N
- Red bud, N
- Smoke tree vir., N
- Mahonia grape holly, N
- Bottlebrush buckeye, N
- Chokecherry, H
- Potentilla f,H/N
- Yucca, H/N
- Snowberry, H/N
- Corkscrew willow, H/N
- Weeping willow, H/N
- Service berry, H/N
- Hickory, H/N
- Black walnut, H/N
