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Attract Pollinators with Container Gardening - National Garden Bureau

Attract Pollinators with Container Planters

Container Gardening, Pollinator GardeningJune 19, 2019gail
No yard? No problem! Container planters can help you play a part in attracting pollinators even if you don’t have a yard! In the United States one-third of all agricultural output depends on pollinators, we need pollinators and pollinators need us! Help the pollinators do their job by planting pollinator-attracting plants in your containers. Create...
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21 Plants Pollinators Love - National Garden Bureau

21 Plants Pollinators Love!

Backyard Habitat, Flower Gardening, Pollinator GardeningJune 21, 2018gail
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!

Backyard Habitat, Flower Gardening, Foodscaping, Kid's Gardening, Planning and Design, Pollinator Gardening, VegetablesMay 11, 2018gail
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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Gardeners Bible

A Garden Devotion

Garden Planning & Design, Herbs, Pollinator GardeningMarch 26, 2018diane
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 to your garden

Bring Butterflies Back to Your Garden

Pollinator GardeningJune 19, 2017gail
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

Kid's Gardening, Pollinator GardeningJune 9, 2017diane
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

Backyard Habitat, Planning and Design, Pollinator GardeningFebruary 17, 2017shari

Every year, one week in June is designated as National Pollinator Week. In an effort to perpetuate a great cause, the 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…

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Native Plants for the Home Garden

Pollinator GardeningFebruary 12, 2017shari

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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