Creating a Pollinator Garden
Time
Budget
Skill
★ ★ ★ ★ ★A pollinator garden in your yard contributes to a healthy and sustainable future for generations of both pollinators and people – and it’s easy to do! With a small space and a few plants, you can attract bees and butterflies to your garden.
Tools
Potting Soil
Rototiller
Round Shovel
Soil Knife
1
Identify and mark sunny protected area for the garden.
2
Till in soil amendments to existing soil.
3
Place plants in bed before planting, spacing according to tag recommendations.
Tip
3-D: Tall in the middle to short on the margins of the bed
2-D: Tall along the back to short on the outside margins
4
Plant plants.
5
Water liberally, saturating the planting bed.
Tip
Recommend Plants:
- Yarrow (Achillea)
- Buttefly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- Hyssop (Agastache)
- Cross Vine (Bignonia capreolata)
- Butterfly Bush (Buddleja)
- Tic Seed (Coreopsis)
- Cone Flower (Echinacea purpurea)
- Joe Pie Weed (Eutrochiium)
- Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
- Panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)
- Lantana (Lantana camara)
- Blazing Star (Liatris spicata)
- Mahonia (Mahonia)
- Bee Balm (Monarda)
- Beardtounge (Penstemon)
- Mountain Mint (Picnanthemum)
- Rosemary (Rosmarinus)
- Annual and perennial Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)
- Salvia (Salvia)
- Goldenrod (Solodago)
- Asters (Sumphyotrichum)