#plant for pollinators

[charmingcreatures]

Cosmic ✨

#cosmos #wildlife gardening #pollinator friendly #plant for pollinators

[the-ablest-navigators]

Bees and butterflies find a home in my back yard.

#iphone photography #home sweet home #pollinators #plant for pollinators #native wildflowers

[lacymoonchild]

(via Plant for Pollinators Note Card | Zazzle)

#plant for pollinators #plant #plants #bee #bees #nature #red clover

[bethanythebogwitch]

The AUDACITY of venus fly traps to expect pollinators to help them reproduce after spending all their time eating bugs

#venus fly trap #plant #flower #pollination

[turtlesandfrogs]

If you're in the U.S. and want to support local plants and pollinators, I hope you've heard of the Xerces Society. Weird name, but super cool resource for gardening for insect pollinators (and they work for other invertebrate species, too)

They've got regional native plant lists:

They've also got super helpful things in their resources section, including Washington's plan for helping bumble bees:

Another really cool resource is the National Wildlife Federation's list of key stone plant species by ecoregion:

#native plants #gardening for pollinators #save the bees #gardening

[headspace-hotel]

As a society we have done thistles so dirty. Not even pollinator-plant zealots recommend planting thistles even though pollinators go absolutely crazy over them.

I saw 2 (two) Great Spangled Fritillaries trying to cram themselves onto the same thistle flower today as well as a thistle plant with multiple American Bumblebees on it. These things are a monarch magnet too.

I know what I'm gonna be gathering seeds from

#plants #pollinators #save the bees #native plant gardening #native plants #double bumble event

[julianplum]

🪻🌱🐝 💜 🌿 ✨ // violets & violet miner bees // part of my natives + pollinators series // gouache on paper

tiny violet miner bees (Andrena violae) are a specific pollinator: they pollinate wood & dog violets in the Northeast, and show a strong preference for blue violets. letting your grassy yard rewild itself and grow violets every spring not only lets you make violet syrup, it also gives violet miner bees their most important food source and increases local pollinator diversity.

#my art #gouache #illustration #painting #art #cottagecore #artists on tumblr #botanical #spring #violet #pollinator #pollinators #native wildflowers #native plants #eco lawn #botanical illustration #violet miner bee #bees #cw: insects #insects

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#native plants #pollinators #mothman #other stuff

[sarahmackattack]

I made orbstructrions for making PollinatORBS (née seed bomb, but everything's so violent in the world, I didn't want the CHILDREN to see the word bomb. Or me. I don't want to see the word bomb if I don't have to. I am 35.)

Will the teachers I email this to use this worksheet? Maaaan who knows. Does the pollinatORB I drew kinda look like a turd thats being rolled by a dungbeetle? YEAH A LITTLE. But. Whatever kids. We're going with it.

Help a little bug near you. Look up native plants in your area. Plant a couple of em. Whisper to the first bug you see that you're happy to see them.

You can download the instructions here.

#pollinatORB #Look I know that planting plants isn't pollinating plants #don't overthink it #pollinators #local ecoystems #native ecosystems

[charmingcreatures]

Pollinator patch 🙌🐝🐞🦋🪲

My favourite garden project that’s come into fruition this year. I earmarked this area under our old apple trees for wildflowers shortly after we moved here. After some back-breaking work to remove the old sods of couch grass, I have even managed to establish yellow rattle, which I’m thrilled about (!)

I’m looking forward to adding more native species to this mini meadow in the years to come and watching it develop into a habitat all our garden inhabitants can make use of.

Here you can see how this area looked in 2020 when we first moved in (feat. an old tire swing) followed by the take over of cow parsley in 2021 when I allowed it to just do it’s thang ✨

#plant for pollinators #save the bees #wildflowers

[thoughtportal]

native plants in tiny spaces

https://homegrownnationalpark.org/

#tiktok #home grown national park #native plants #park #solarpunk #solar punk #pollinators

[snekdood]

*casually posts this at the same time to further my agenda of growing native plants instead of grass and shitty ornamentals*

#gardening #water conservation #biodiversity #kill your lawn #native plants #native pollinators #pollinator garden #climate change #sustainability #environmental rehabilitation #habitat restoration #wildflowers #native flowers #animals #water crisis #didnt mean to post that grass one whoops. i think i skimmed it and wasnt thinking about it too much #but ig its true grass would be better than roads. lets just uh. make it native grass yaknow?

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 30 September 2023

A clump-forming perennial Symphyotrichum 'Prairie Sky' has small pinky mauve flowerheads with centres that have a paler shading. The flowers were popular with the local bees.

Jill Raggett

#Symphyotrichum #aster #bee friendly #pollinators #herbaceous #perennial #plants #horticulture #gardens #garden #essex #Beth Chatto #herbaceousperennial

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

#hibiscus #pink flowers #cottagecore #fairycore #floral #flowers #flower #big flowers #plant photography #plant blog #plants #garden #dads garden #massachusetts #cape cod #plant #bees #pollinators

[julianplum]

🌱 🐜 🪽🌿✨// white trillium & ants // gouache on hot press paper

part of my natives + pollinators series. white trillium are a delicate spring ephemeral native to the eastern US. they bloom in the early spring in woodlands, soaking up the sunlight on the forest floor for a few weeks before the canopy grows in. tiny ants help pollinate them for the 4-ish weeks they're in bloom, and spread their seeds on the forest floor.

#my art #gouache #illustration #painting #botanical #artists on tumblr #art #spring #trillium #white trillium #native plants #pollinators #bug art #insect art #cw: insects #ants #botanical illustration #wildflowers #floral #native wildflowers #flower art

[tinyurbanwilderness]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/world/iyw-rufous-hummingbird-tipping-point-extinction-earth-day/index.html#:~:text=The%20Rufous%20hummingbird%20lost%20two,if%20conservation%20doesn't%20improve.

Plant NATIVE honeysuckle, not the ones you buy at Home Depot or Lowe’s. You can find them at local native plant sales or online at native plant nurseries.

Update since this is going viral:

The hummingbirds in my restored yard habitat visit ALL of the native flowers in my yard, so it doesn’t strictly have to be honeysuckle. They just tend to like flowers with trumpet shapes.

#nature #pollinators #hummingbird #Rufus hummingbird #birds #birding #native plants #plant native #midwest #backyard wildlife