Why Create a Pollinator Garden?

Pollinators are the heartbeat of a thriving garden, quietly working behind the scenes to ensure blooms turn into fruits, vegetables, and seeds. Bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinating friends not only bring beauty and life through their movement and color, they also play a vital role in keeping plants productive and healthy. 

A pollinator garden is more than a collection of flowers — it’s a living system. By combining nectar-rich plants, native and xeric species, and simple habitat features like pollinator hotels, you create a garden that is resilient, productive, and alive. Garden with intention, and the pollinators — along with your entire landscape — will reward you for it.

Whether you start with a single flower bed, a cutting garden, or one pollinator hotel, every choice matters. Intentionally attract and support  pollinators with the following:

• Diverse blooms from early spring through fall

• Different flower shapes and sizes for a variety of pollinators

• Reliable food sources like nectar and pollen

• Habitat and shelter, not just flowers

With that in mind, I’d like to share some of the plants I rely on year after year — favorites not just in my own garden, but with the pollinators themselves. The good news? Many of the best pollinator plants are also beautiful, easy to grow, and great for cutting.

Below you’ll find a combination of pollinator-friendly flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that work together to create a living, thriving garden.

Periodically we will be having a drawing to give away a Pollinator Hotel made by my very own hands. Just enter your email address and tell me your favorite way to support pollinators.

Winners will be contacted directly and announced in our newsletter.

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