If you’re interested in attracting native specialist pollinators to your garden like we are, then you may want to consider these 15 plants that have co-evolved with a group of pollinators that rely on them. This is a multi-part series of videos focusing on supporting and growing the specialist pollinator community—and you can just do it in a small space, if that’s all you have.
We have a free handout, which highlights the native plants based on region of the United States, which you can access here: https://bit.ly/3sktBYJ
Feel free to take that handout to your local nursery or garden center and encourage them to carry more specialist pollinator plants.
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We have a free handout, which highlights the native plants based on region of the United States, which you can access here: https://bit.ly/3sktBYJ
Feel free to take that handout to your local nursery or garden center and encourage them to carry more specialist pollinator plants.
I had a boltonia self sow in my annual flower patch so I let it grow. It grew taller than me and is always buzzing with every type of bee, etc. as autumn takes over. I absolutely love it!
I've got distracted so much by the back of the shirt you are wearing that I had to rewind to listened again.
There are very many medicinal herbs that do the same functions and are native to local areas. The biggest problem for the specialist pollinators is that habit is not provided, and/or is being destroyed. Pastures are mowed and planted with grass. At least if not mowed, certain animals species live in those grasses, hide in those grasses. But a wild maintained pasture, I know contradictory but it isn't if you use stewardship, provides habitat and cover for small animals from predators in the sky or on the watch. A more diverse and healthy community of animals is created, bringing in all the wanted pollinators and other wild creatures that help the ecosystem of our gardens/forests.
The addition to having medicinal benefits, these herbs provide many textures, colors, sizes, shapes, and are beautiful to observes and in many cases wonderful aromas are present in the air.
Love that you care about these specialists. Permaculture demands they are needed for a thriving and producing system. It makes it less work for us as nature takes care of itself and therefor us as a consequence.
Love this (o; Salix a bit aggressive, so many are very controllable. So many positives here in Indiana. Nearly first to bloom in spring. Plus use for crafts, furniture on and on. Might let folks know Goldenrod gets the very bad rap of unmerciful allergic reactions. When its not. Its just a campion of ragweed. The pollen spread-ability between the 2 at opposite ends of the range.. (sure you know (o;)
Thistles standing stately, side by side, in royal purple colors, at almost 7 feet tall, is a setting for photo models and now specialized pollinators. My roommate was an amateur photographer. I stood in the thistles at age 22. When it was suggested that I put on my new long, off-white, thin flowing cotton dress and place myself, as if sleeping still, on a floating carpet of lime green pond algae, I angrily declined. The thistles were difficult, but a better choice. The bees really like the largest of sunflowers here too. This October they still stand, as usual, in front of a Church. They have huge flowers, stalks and are 9-10 feet tall. That made me think of your deer. 🌻🌻🌻🦌🦌🦌
This great info as I get prepared for next spring to make my all native gardenscape
Snow drifts of tiny flowers is something for which one could strive, to place in protected from mower places, like next to a steel fence.
Great list reference. We’re in western Canada so definitely can use it 😀
Thank you so much for these videos. I have a small 1/4 acre garden and would like to improve the environment for pollinators. This year, I was overjoyed to see so many return following many years of decline. I learned that asters were very important from a British garden revival video so I have a lot of asters but your video provides more specific information that will help me improve my garden. Thanks to your bulb shopping video, I am planting many native tulip species and very early flowers.
I really appreciated the information you shared. I will go on to research this further for my area.
Your garden looks happy. I have such a hard time with latin names and appreciate that you call out both names.
So many gardens here in NE KS are completely spent by this time of year, and so many keystone plants for native bees in my region are fall bloomers, that I've designed my garden to peak this time of year. Lots of asters and goldenrod mixed in with little bluestem really is beautiful. NE Aster is particular seems to really attract the bees, and they're really interesting. On the same plant, you'll see variations in color from one flower to the next.
They’re so pretty. That’d be hard to watch them freeze in the middle of winter. Are they perennial?
Thank you for this. I love thistles.
These are very suited to my soil and zone! Thank you so much for turning me on to these!
Your pollinator series is really interesting. And thanks so much for giving the latin names. Some of the plants you mention are widely grown in the UK but many of them you just don't see in cultivation here which is surprising as they are very ornamental. I shall look them up.
Kuddos for putting in this much effort, really.
However, your language and teriminology use is not always 'correct' (in se) and/or confusing.
For instance: you keep saying "Do (also) plant the native species of X cultivar".
Nativity and – what you actually mean to say: wild – are not the same and/or interchangeable. 'Native' means 'naturally ocurring in a specific geographic area', while 'cultivar' means 'a by humans cultivated/selected VARIETY – meaning phenotypically different from the wild occuring type – of a certain plant species.
With that in mind it would be better to say:
"If you want to plant cultivar of native plant X, do also try to include the (naturally occurring/evolved) WILD TYPE of said SPECIES".
I know this sounds like nitpicking, but when you want to be educational (or scientific certainly), this is important imho.
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Salix are the best but they really need a lot of water. Not good for dry locations at all.
They host all my favorite moths where I live
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Loved this ep. I too am on to the specialists