Many landscape plants depend on bees and other insects to move pollen from flower to flower. The insects don’t realize they are pollinating the plants they visit – they’re just looking for nectar in the flowers. You can help the flowering plants in your neighborhood by planting a pollinator-friendly flower garden. Bumblebees, solitary bees, pollinating wasps and other insects will try to fill in for honeybees.
POLLINATOR-FRIENDLY PLANTS
Growing the common plants listed below insures that something is blooming for your pollinators each month of the year.
January – Giant Red mustard
February: redbud
March: Carolina jessamine
April: ajuga, crimson clover, apple, holly, thrift, abelia
May: ‘Schip’ laurel, ‘Otto Leuyken’ laurel, annual salvia, veronica, Virginia sweetspire, yarrow, scabiosa, lavender, evening primrose, dill, coreopsis
June: nandina, perennial salvia, agastache, rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium), cosmos, fothergilla, elderberry, plain (not double) zinnia, coneflower, Shasta daisy
July: bee balm, chaste tree, sunflower, phlox, dill, fennell, clerodendrum, catmint, liatris
August: Verbena bonariensis, butterfly bush, glossy abelia, Mexican sage, joe-pye weed, goldenrod, alyssum
September: butterfly weed, mountain mint, goldenrod
October: Salvia guaranitica, pineapple sage
November: aster
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