Posts Tagged ‘Pollinator-friendly plants’

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  Shasta Daisy: Growing tips, varieties, and pollinator power

  by Jessica Walliser

  Though I love my vegetable garden, as a horticulturist my first “plant love” was perennials. I spent ten years in my...

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  Shrubs for pollinators: 5 bloom-filled choices for bees and butterflies

  by Jessica Walliser

  Pollinator gardening is powerful stuff. While natural pollinator habitat diminishes and the effects of pesticide exposure take...

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  The monarch butterfly host plant: Milkweeds and how to grow them from seed

  by Jessica Walliser

  Winter doesn’t necessarily seem like the best time to be starting seeds outdoors in most of North America, but for one very...

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  Choosing the best bee plants for a pollinator garden

  by Jessica Walliser

  It’s a mighty good thing that so many gardeners have bees on the brain these days. With numerous North American native bee...

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  Four flowers for the vegetable garden

  by Niki Jabbour

  In the gardens of my childhood, there were always pots of geraniums, petunias, and sweet alyssum, as well as beds of cosmos,...

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  5 Late-blooming pollinator friendly plants

  by Jessica Walliser

  I’ve been working hard over the past few years to incorporate as many late-blooming pollinator friendly plants into my...