Pollinator Garden

Pollinator gardens are designed to attract and support pollinating species such as bees, butterflies, birds, and other beneficial insects. These gardens play a critical role in maintaining healthy, biodiverse ecosystems and offer several important benefits related to increasing pollination, species conservation, reduced chemical use, and aesthetics and well-being.

The colorful flowers and lively movements of bees and butterflies add beauty and tranquility to gardens, parks, and public spaces. Being around vibrant gardens has been shown to improve mental well-being by reducing stress and providing a sense of connection to nature.

  • A patch of Fireweed on a hill in the countryside

    Fireweed

    Fireweed, a member of the willow plant family, is distinguished by its gorgeous magenta flowers. Its common name comes from its sudden appearance after…

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  • Bottle gentian flower and leaves in a wildgarden

    Bottle Gentian is a Garden Darling!

    Bottle Gentian is, with its dark blue closed flower, among the finest perennials to grace the garden in late summer. Bottle gentian has bottle-like…

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  • Hoary Vervain

    Hoary Vervain

    The hoary vervain, or Verbena stricta, is a type of herbaceous plant falling under the Verbenaceae family. The flowering plant is most commonly found…

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  • White Heath Aster

    White Heath Aster

    White Heath Aster is a bushy, compact plant with many branched stems smothered in sprays of small, daisy-like white flowers. These sprays are so…

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  • Lysimachia quadrifolia or Four-Flowered Yellow Loosestrife

    Four-Flowered Yellow Loosestrife

    The four-flower yellow loosestrife, or Lysimachia quadrifolia, is a species of herbaceous plant in the Primulaceae family. It is indigenous to Canada and the…

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  • The yellow flowering stem of an Ohio GoldenRod

    Ohio Goldenrod

    Ohio Goldenrod (Solidago ohioensis) has a compact form that belies its large, exuberant floral display late in the season. It has flat-topped clusters of…

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  • Monarch butterfly on rough blazing star

    Rough Blazing Star Attracts Pollinators

    Rough Blazing Star features fluffy, deep rose-purple flowers arranged in 1″ button-like heads. Blooming begins, as one would assume, at the top of the…

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  • A dozen colorful tick seed coreopsis

    Lanceleaf Tickseed Coreopsis

    Lanceleaf Tickseed is popular and ideal for the garden, outdoor pots and containers. It has bright yellow spring daisy-like blooms that bloom from spring…

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  • A small grove of bee balm wild bergamot plants and purple flowers

    Wild Bergamot

    Wild Bergamot has rich globular heads of fragrant lilac-purple tubular blooms. The flower heads perch on a whorl of beautiful, pinkish bracts and bloom…

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  • A developed and healthy white topped aster

    Flat-Topped Aster

    The Flat-topped Aster attracts a wide range of types of pollinators: long-and short-tongued bees, wasps, beetles, flies, and butterflies. It is a great candidate…

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  • 3 pink swamp rose mallow flowers

    Swamp Rose Mallow

    Swamp Rose Mallow, known as hibiscus moscheutos, has exotic, oversized flowers that are very striking. There are five overlapping petals, each with a reddish-purple…

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  • Close up of white and pruple hairy beartongue flower

    Hairy Beardtongue Is Perfect for Many Gardens

    The Hairy Beardtongue possesses many beneficial characteristics. It is, for example, small and controllable, does not compete or spread widely, has attractive and delicate…

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  • Close up of Solidago nemoralis flower

    Grey Goldenrod

    Goldenrods are a type of herbaceous flowering plant in the Asteraceae family, also known as the Compositae. Although the plant starts out green, the…

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  • Zigzag goldenrod leaf and flower

    Zigzag Goldenrod Attracts Pollinators

    Zigzag Goldenrod, also known as Solidago flexicaulis, is distinguished by its toothed, broad-ovate leaves and the shape of its stem. The name comes from…

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