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    17 Best Easy Grow Plants for Attracting Beneficial Garden Pollinators

    1.2KViews Modified: Jun 16, 2022 · Published: Aug 3, 2012
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    17 Best Easy Grow Plants for Attracting Beneficial Garden Pollinators. Busy as a bee

    There are a vast diversity of pollinators that occupy our backyard, darting and flitting across the flowers, spreading pollen from stamens to pistils, and tasting the sweet nectar.

    Of those you see, most are decidedly beneficial to us and our gardens.

    Animals that assist plants in their reproduction as pollinators include species of:

      • ants
      • beetles
      • moths
      • bats
      • birds
      • butterflies
      • dragonflies
      • honey bees and other bees
      • mason bees (they are easy to attract with handmade mason bee boxes)
      • flies
      • wasps

    Wind, water and animals also play a part.

    We all should do our share to encourage these pollinators by providing habitat!

     

    17 Best Easy Grow Plants for Attracting Beneficial Garden Pollinators. Autumn Joy sedum with butterfly

    Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) on Autumn Joy sedum

    Why Are Pollinators Essential?

    • At least 90 food crops eaten in North America and about 80% of the world’s flowering plants depend on pollinators.
    • Without pollinators we would have a world without apples, blueberries, strawberries, chocolate, almonds, melons, peaches, pumpkins, and many other important food, fiber, and medicinal plants.
    • Through their action as pollinators, the honey bee contributes to the production of many billions of dollars worth of crops in America every year.
    • we would lose out vital production of medicinal honey

    These are some of the pollinators hanging around our garden that I captured with my little Nikon Cool Pix:

    This little hummingbird is spreading ‘gold dust’ as she drinks nectar from Papa’s trumpet vine. They got the name Hummingbird from early colonists because of the buzz of their fast moving wings. It is quite loud, and you can tell when one is approaching.

    Once the little hummers got used to me, they relaxed a bit and resumed their feeding and chasing of one another. One told me the nectar was divine.

    ruby-throated hummingbird,

    It is not hard to see why at a distance many people mistake this moth below for a small hummingbird as it hovers, sipping nectar through a long feeding tube or proboscis.

    A clear-wing moth on Butterfly Bush

    Hummingbird Clear-wing Moth readily visits my flowers by day in eastern half of US

    Plants That Bring Pollinators To Your Garden

    Perennials:

    • Butterfly Bush
    • Agastache (anise hyssop)
    • Black-eyed Susan
    • Russian Sage
    • Caryopteris
    • Honeysuckle
    • Tithonia
    • Sunflower
    • Coneflower (purple coneflower and all varieties)
    • Aster (fall blooming)
    • Daisy-like Gaillardia (blanket flower)
    • Elderberry bush
    • Redbud
    • Lupine
    • Dogwood
    • Lilac
    • Trumpet vine
    • All of the squash family with their lovely large yellow flowers!

    Other plants that pollinators enjoy:

    • Basil
    • Borage
    • Cosmos
    • Hyssop
    • Lavender
    • Marjoram
    • Mexican sunflower (Tithonia)
    • Zinnia (annual)
    • Mint and many of the herbs in flower

    And this is just the tip of the iceberg! Research plants for your area.

    21 Best Plants For Pollinators

    Eco-regional planting guides, tailored to specific areas of the United States. You can find out which eco-region you live in and get your free guide by entering your zip code.

    Add plants that flower at differing times of the year, early spring through late fall. Honey bees feeding in later autumn are storing up honey for the winter and need plentiful sources of nectar.

    I want to encourage you to looked closely at what is buzzing and creeping around your garden. It would be sad to miss this beautiful symbiotic form of reproduction. We would do well to take the time to watch for it.

    National Geographic’s Photo Gallery posts some incredible photos of ‘Gold Dusters’. They are the earth’s pollinators. And they come in more than 200,000 shapes and sizes.

    “O Lord, how manifold are Your works!
    In wisdom You have made them all.
    The earth is full of Your possessions—
    In which are innumerable teeming things,
    Living things both small and great.”~Psalm 104: 24-25

    17 Best Easy Grow Plants for Attracting Beneficial Garden Pollinators. A honeybee on an orange coneflower
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    Hi! I’m Jacqueline!

    Thanks for being part of this journey with me.
    Welcome to my own little place on the internet! Home is where I love to be. I feel there is no greater place to incubate souls. These days you’ll find me using my experiences here to write about herbal remedies and natural health research — a big passion of mine. But being a wife and mother is not easy. It is challenging and potentially lonely. I get that. I wanted to create a place to connect with and support other moms for creating a natural, healthy, and fulfilling home life.
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    1. Kendra @ A Proverbs 31 Wife

      August 03, 2012 at 4:28 pm

      I just discovered we had humming birds last week and was so excited about it!

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      • Jacqueline

        August 06, 2012 at 1:14 pm

        Kendra,
        I can relate to your excitement! Is is so much fun to watch them…almost addictive :0

        Reply
    2. LindaG

      August 03, 2012 at 4:59 pm

      Great photos!

      Reply
      • Jacqueline

        August 06, 2012 at 1:17 pm

        Thank you, Linda G,
        I was blessed to be in the right place at the right time. So much fun 🙂

        Reply
    3. Stacey

      August 04, 2012 at 1:29 pm

      Jacqueline,

      This is a beautiful post, and one close to my heart. I just Love pollinators! I could watch them for hours. I think that many people are missing so much beauty not slowing down to watch all the beauty on all levels in the garden! We are new to the world of having a bee hive, and they never cease to amaze me! It is stunning what they do each and every day.

      Your photos here are beautiful. Isn’t it amazing the variety in bugs? I love all the local bees, there are so many sizes and colours!

      Reply
    4. Auntie Em

      August 05, 2012 at 7:33 am

      Jacqueline, I just discovered you via The Alabaster Jar- what a beautiful home and I look forward to getting to know you better!

      Reply
      • Jacqueline

        August 06, 2012 at 1:16 pm

        Auntie Em,
        I am so glad you are here! Thank you for your kind words, and I also look forward to that. One of the joys of doing this blog is getting to know like-minded ladies in the Lord. We have been traveling, and it is great to be home and nice to return to your sweet comment 🙂

        Reply
    5. Wendy @ E1A

      August 06, 2012 at 3:45 am

      Beautiful post Jacqueline!

      Reply

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