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10 Tips for Successful Pollinator Plantings

The colorful posters with a collection of common herbs are a popular social media share. Save the bees, they say; plant these. I’ve been known to peek at those lists and note to myself – I could use a few more hyssop plants in my apiary – but that well-meaning call to action widely misses...

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10 New Plants to Create a Multi-Season Hummingbird Haven

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Is there anything more entertaining than watching the aerobatic antics of hummingbirds? Whether they’re visiting for a sip of sugar water at the feeder, zooming through the garden (where you’ll often hear their whirring wings before you see them), or engaging in an aggressive chase with a rival, hummingbirds provide hours of enjoyment. (Who needs...

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Pollinator Predicament:

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What happens when the birds and bees can’t do it? When it comes to birds, bees, plants, and pollination, timing truly is everything. And, in the Rocky Mountains, where short summers dictate extreme synchronicity, the timing is off. Less snow and earlier springs may be a blessing for those of us who tire of winter...

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Pretty Portable pollinator gardens - National Garden Bureau

Pretty, portable pollinator gardens: Top 10 plants for pollinator-friendly containers

Container Gardening, Pollinator Gardening

Bees, birds, butterflies, and other pollinators play an important role in our global ecosystem. In fact, they are essential. By transporting pollen from one plant to another, they make growing the food we eat and the beautiful garden spaces we enjoy possible. One of the easiest ways to support a healthy growing environment is to...

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Flower Power in the Garden - Help pollinators with these tips | National Garden Bureau

Flower Power in the Pollinator Victory Garden

Pollinator Gardening

Flowers are some of the most important food sources for pollinators, but there’s more to it than planting flowers and waiting for pollinators to appear. A successful Pollinator Victory Garden achieves a balance between two seemingly disparate principles: plant diversity and plant sufficiency. Your garden needs to have a wide variety of plant species in...

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Beneficial Wasps and You

Backyard Habitat, Pollinator Gardening

Don’t be scared! Did you know…Wasp pollination and predatory efforts are signs of a healthy ecosystem!?! What is the first thing you think of when you hear, “wasp”? Was it a yellow jacket, hornet, fear, nuisance, pain? What about beneficial wasps? Have you heard of them? What do you think they do? For many, the concept...

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Thank Goodness 2021 is the Year of the Monarda!

Flower Gardening, Perennials, Pollinator Gardening

The Year 2020 Has Made One Thing Clear... We Have A Great Deal To Look Forward To! I suppose one has to brain dead or living in a cave to not realize that the year 2020 was not quite normal. What with politics, storms, and a pandemic, it is not surprising, given the shutdowns and...

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Bee-Friendly Shrubs & Perennials for your Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Bee-Friendly Plants Create a Perfect Pollinator Garden

Perennials, Planting Tips, Pollinator Gardening

Adding bee-friendly shrubs and perennials to your garden. Bee-friendly and Butterfly-friendly plants continue to pique the interest of gardeners... whether they’re edible growers hoping to lure pollinators to boost the veggie harvest, ornamental gardeners who adore the interest butterflies and bees provide to the landscape or naturalists who wish to help feed and protect bees...

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Growing Wildflowers in your Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Ask The Experts: Growing Wildflowers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Flower Gardening, How-to, Pollinator Gardening

15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Ask The Experts: Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Wildflowers are one of Mother Nature’s loveliest gifts and a perfect addition to your Victory Garden 2.0. Their changing panorama of colors, shapes, sizes, and heights provides delight throughout the seasons. Wildflowers can be used anywhere. In...

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10 tips for creating your own Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Pollinator Gardening

10 tips for Planting your Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0 Help the Pollinators with a Victory Garden 2.0 The passion and urgency that inspired the original Victory Gardens are needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized...

10 Tips for Successful Pollinator Plantings

10 New Plants to Create a Multi-Season Hummingbird Haven

Pollinator Predicament:

Pretty, portable pollinator gardens: Top 10 plants for pollinator-friendly containers

Flower Power in the Pollinator Victory Garden

Beneficial Wasps and You

Thank Goodness 2021 is the Year of the Monarda!

Bee-Friendly Plants Create a Perfect Pollinator Garden

Ask The Experts: Growing Wildflowers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

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