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.

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 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

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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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