Three Simple Garden Designs
These three designs were created using the design program SmartDraw
Not a homeowner? You can still help! Educate close homeowners like parents and neighbors of the dangers of pesticides and herbicides to the pollinator populations and include how they can help! For example, they can support pollinator activity and diversity by leaving the good weeds in their lawn, avoiding chemical sprays, and attracting pollinators with habitat and a steady food supply of pollen and nectar.
- Common Weeds to Leave Be(e)!
- Clover
- Common Plantain (only host plant for the Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia))
- Dandelions
- Chickweed
- Wild Violets
- Henbit
- Deadnettle
- Canada Thistle
- Evening Primrose
- Wild Onion
- Common Burdock
- Common Mallow
- Wild Geranium
- Wild Carrot
- Oxalis
- Pollinator-Friendly Annuals for Container Pots or Continuous Color!
- Calendula
- Marigolds
- Salvia (many annual and perennial varieties)
- Nasturtium
- Lavender (most hardy to zone 7, but English Lavender hardy to zone 5)
- Cosmos
- Verbena (most annual, few hardy)
- Milkweed (Asclepias)
- Borage
- Heliotrope
- Oregano (few hardy varieties)
- Sunflowers
- Zinnias
- Scabiosa (some perennial varieties)
- Bachelors button centaurea
Lists of Perennials to Fit Any Spot!