Welcome to our Plant for Pollinators 2025 series!
During this series we will share about the importance of encouraging pollinators in your garden, ways to grow WITH nature and discuss different types of pollinators.
You can provide beautiful habitats for pollinators by adding pollinator-friendly plants to your yard and landscape. Enjoy colorful blooms all season long that bring many beautiful butterflies and other pollinators to your yard.
From nrcs.usda.gov
Pollinators are needed for the reproduction of 90% of flowering plants and one third of human food crops. Pollinators include bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, birds, and bats. Each of us depends on pollinators in a practical way to provide us with the wide range of foods we eat. In addition, pollinators are part of the intricate web that supports the biological diversity in natural ecosystems that helps sustain our quality of life. Abundant and healthy populations of pollinators can improve fruit set and quality, and increase fruit size. In farming situations this increases production per acre. In the wild, biodiversity increases and wildlife food sources increase.
During the month of January 2025, will be including 2 FREE SEED PACKS with all orders -1 for pollinators and 1 for food.
This year, I have chosen Calendula officianalis as the "free-bee-seed" pack. Not only is is beneficial for pollinators, it can deter pests and it can be used for medicinal purposes. That's a win-win!
Along with 2 free *extra* seed packs, you will also receive a beautiful Calendula postcard with information on the back and a Plant for Pollinators print-out.
East to grow flowers to encourage pollinators to your garden include Sunflowers, Borage, Zinnias, Nasturtiums, our Butterfly Garden Mix flowers pack and more. Stay tuned for more info!
15 comments
I love sunflowers!
I like bachelor buttons!
I love all the butterflies that come to my mist flowers. It doesn’t hurt that they’re a native plant that grows like a weed so they very low maintenance.
My go to is honeysuckle!
I didn’t know that you had a blog, what an exciting find!
I love coneflowers! But I love having a mix of many different things in the garden and around the house. :)
Zinnias are my favorite pollinator plants
I try to make my yard bee and bird friendly. My favorite pollinator would be my hummingbirds.
ALL the bees, especially Bumble bees, LOVE my comfrey! It is swarming with them most of the time. (Unfortunately for me I planted the WRONG variety of it, so it’s spreading all over creation…)
I didn’t know you had a blog here. I appreciate all the information you share and of course the free seed!! Can’t wait to start more pollinators. I am preparing areas around the garden now!!
I, too, didn’t know you had a blog!
My favorite pollinator is salvia ( I have Lady In Red) . Everything loves it, including humming birds. I’m trying to do more pollinator plants, and learning more about them here.
I love Calendula flowers! I had one last year. Only one grew, but it was beautiful. I did save its seeds for this year.
This year I’ll try again with sun flowers and zinnias. Thanks for info!
We love all the Florida natives that our butterflies thrive on. Like Coontie and passion flower, frog fruit, sunshine mimosas, to name a few.
I love zinnias and so do my bees!
I didn’t realize you had a blog. 😎
Pineapple sage is a favorite pollinator plant.