Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Who here is planting for pollinators around your home - assuming you don't live right next to your "stomping ground" ??
We live in a suburban "development" in SE Pa. A number of our neighbors (and us) have planted assortments of flowers and flowering trees. Quite a few native flowers have been planted around local properties. The numbers of bees (all kinds, big as well as tiny), assorted butterflies, hawk moths, and hummingbirds is on the increase. We also have 2 flowering crab apple trees in our yard, a Profusion and a Sugar Tyme. The flowers my wife and I planted are mostly perennials - plant once & let them grow. We have several rhododendrons, azaleas, black chokeberry, and flowering Weigela shrubs, too.
Coneflowers (Echinacea)
Black-Eyed Susans
Garden Phlox
Bee Balm
Blanket Flowers (Gaillardia)
Daffodils
Salvia
Astilbe
The neighbors behind us have several butterfly bushes, and they draw LOADS of insects of all kinds. I think we'll be planting some of those too this spring, after seeing the numbers of pollinators the neighbors get on theirs. Some neighbors have small veggy gardens that those pollinating insects go to - so they get the benefit of the "flying circus."
We live in a suburban "development" in SE Pa. A number of our neighbors (and us) have planted assortments of flowers and flowering trees. Quite a few native flowers have been planted around local properties. The numbers of bees (all kinds, big as well as tiny), assorted butterflies, hawk moths, and hummingbirds is on the increase. We also have 2 flowering crab apple trees in our yard, a Profusion and a Sugar Tyme. The flowers my wife and I planted are mostly perennials - plant once & let them grow. We have several rhododendrons, azaleas, black chokeberry, and flowering Weigela shrubs, too.
Coneflowers (Echinacea)
Black-Eyed Susans
Garden Phlox
Bee Balm
Blanket Flowers (Gaillardia)
Daffodils
Salvia
Astilbe
The neighbors behind us have several butterfly bushes, and they draw LOADS of insects of all kinds. I think we'll be planting some of those too this spring, after seeing the numbers of pollinators the neighbors get on theirs. Some neighbors have small veggy gardens that those pollinating insects go to - so they get the benefit of the "flying circus."