Pollinator Gardening Archives - National Garden Bureau

21 Plants Pollinators Love!

June 21, 2018Backyard Habitat, Flower Gardening, Pollinator Gardening

Plant some of these pollinator-friendly plants in your garden and get ready to enjoy the fun and beauty! (View slide show below to see all 21 varieties) Seven tips to help bring pollinators to your yard and community! Plant flowers and plants that pollinators love to stop for! It's easy when you add some of these...

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Grow A Theme Garden - Try Something Different - National Garden Bureau

Try Something Different: Grow a Theme Garden!

May 11, 2018Backyard Habitat, Flower Gardening, Foodscaping, Kid's Gardening, Planning and Design, Pollinator Gardening, Vegetables

Written by Stephanie Rose Author of: Garden Made: a Year of Seasonal Projects to Beautify Your Garden and Your Life With busy schedules and jam-packed gardens, plants have to do double duty if they're going to fit into modern lives. We aren't just growing a vegetable or flower garden anymore. Now gardens have multiple purposes like...

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A Garden Devotion

March 26, 2018Garden Planning & Design, Herbs, Pollinator Gardening

Written by Shelley S. Cramm (a book excerpt from NGB author members) God’s Word for Gardeners Bible is a devotional Bible for gardeners, featuring daily essays on a range of garden themes. It is an especially hallowed week in the garden, as the warmth of spring begins to wake up dormant plants with new life and...

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Bring Butterflies Back to Your Garden

June 19, 2017Pollinator Gardening

Butterflies...Delightful Visitors in your Garden! There is no more delightful decoration for a garden than nature’s own--butterflies. On a warm sunny day these visitors provide color and motion that doubles the pleasure of gardening. How fortunate for the gardener that it takes very little effort to make the yard attractive to butterflies! Butterflies will visit, and...

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Butterfly Gardening for Children

June 9, 2017Kid's Gardening, Pollinator Gardening

Winged jewels of the air ... flutterbys ... no matter what you call butterflies, they entrance everyone. Planting a garden to attract them is one of the best ways to get children interested in gardening and nature while introducing them to a bit of science at the same time. To attract butterflies, design a garden...

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Basics for Creating a Pollinator-Friendly Garden

February 17, 2017Backyard Habitat, Planning and Design, Pollinator Gardening

Every year, one week in June is designated as National Pollinator Week. In an effort to perpetuate a great cause, National Garden Bureau is following up that event with some specific tips on how to plant a pollinator-friendly garden. Pollinators can include bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, bats and beetles. Since the first three are the most popular pollinators…

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Native Plants for the Home Garden

February 12, 2017Pollinator Gardening

Native plants are among the most popular plants for American gardens, yet they have been growing in North American prairies, woods, and deserts for hundreds of years. However, the term native is often misunderstood and misused because all plants are native to some region of the world. The term is used here to identify a…

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