Recent searches
Search options
This is really bleak. Know I’m just singing back to the choir here but what are you guys planting for the pollinators this year?
This one is new for me, sneezeweed, Helenium amarum. They’ve already sprouted in their outdoor cold-strat containers.
Also transplanted year old loebelia siphilitica seedlings to the ground yesterday.
Another new one is lyre leaf sage but seeds haven’t sprouted yet. Pic is from summer last year.
Hemaris diffinis, snowberry clearwing on lyreleaf sage, Salvia lyrata.
@jblue I’m intending to get a meadow started at one of my jobs & continue to increase habitat at my other job.
Also sharing collected wildflower seed with others so they can grow more flowers & running propagation workshops for herbs (and adding pollinator info into that).
I grow a lot of vegetables that polinators like.
https://empressofdirt.net/food-crop-pollination/
I also grow some milkweed for the monarch butterflies; they'd be pollinators if there were more of them.
@Hellybootwader awesome 
Our septic died in Autumn & we replaced it with a mound system. Planted a septic safe pollinator meadow on the mound. The seeds came from Prairiemoon
@ArtseaGardener awesome
@jblue I'm adding marigolds this year.
I also plan to scatter extra dill seeds around in some patchy spots in my yard, and let them take off if they want. I always plant dill in my herb garden, and the butterflies (swallowtails especially) love it. I want more of those!
We have some native vine milkweed that's trying to take over a holly bush (that bush is another good pollinator here; the bees love it). I've been letting them battle it out and enjoying seeing who's at it each day.
@effika you should take a multi-year time lapse video of the battle and set it to “ride of the Valkyries.” 
@jblue Liatris is always beloved by moths and butterflies. Culvers root is another good one. Native thistles are really underrated!
@coppercrush thistles for the win! I’m trying bristle thistle this year (hasn’t sprouted yet) and I regularly grow (and eat) sow thistle.
@jblue whats another favorite naturalized plant that you eat? Ive always wanted to get into edible wild gardening
@coppercrush dandelions. There are native dandelions and I planted them last fall. Guess we’ll see if they come up.
My favorite leafy green that’s native is Boehmeria cylindrica. You can eat it fresh, cook or dry it and use it as a powder for doughs and batters.
@jblue hearing you sing to the choir is ok, at least I feel less lonely, our small efforts less isolated.
Last year I planted extra crocuses, the bee-flies are already liking them.
I bought a native honeysuckle (I don't have the name right now), I was told it won't flower for another year or two, but this is a good reminder to put it in the ground!
I took to the seed library some lupinus seeds I harvested from my yard.
Trying to get the energy to plant seeds from a different-colored lupinus.
