Over the years I have added many plants in my garden that are
pollinator friendly. I believe that we gardeners have a role to play in saving
these very important contributors to our planet. We all know the stories, bees are in trouble because
of diseases and butterflies are on the decline because of the loss of habitat. It is time for all us, no matter have small
our gardens are, to take this very important cause on behalf of these defenseless
creatures.
Today I am declaring that from now on, my garden will be a
pollinator habitat. This will mean no
chemicals (I don’t use any), all new plants will be pollinator friendly, more
native plants and less grass. I will also
be talking about pollinator friendly plants on all my blog postings.
This week at the
DragonFly Garden.
There is always a plant in need of a haircut in my
garden. This week it was the Fire Dragon
bush, it had taken over my side garden and it didn’t look good from inside the
house. In keeping with my new pollinator
friendly policy, noticed the new purple salvia container next to the bench.
For more information on how to turn your garden into a pollinator habitat, check The Xerces Society website.
3 comments:
Great gardening continues....native is the only way to go. Try the native passiflora species. they will bring you many zebra longwing butterflies. If you have nectar for the butterflies and food for the caterpillars you will have many beneficial butterflies.
Your garden is so beautiful! I love to see your flowers, all looks so awesome. An interesting blog.
Yeah Rusty!! You are so right and it seems as though more and more gardeners are thinking the same way.
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