FLOWERING PLANTS ARE POLLINATOR PLANTS
Do you want your garden to come alive this summer with bees, butterflies, birds and beneficial insects?!
The good news is all flowering plants attract pollinators. Flowers are their food source. While they are feeding, pollinators distribute the pollen within the same flower and from flower to flower. The pollen grains stick onto the pollinators feet and body and then stick to the female stigma part of the flower. The pollen grain then grows a tube that travels all the way down the stigma to the ovary of the flower where it then fertilizes the female ovule(egg) inside the ovary. It will then develop into an embryo within a seed. The flower is the reproductive structure of flowering plants. The fruit is the swollen ovary of the female reproductive structure. And inside the fruit are the seeds. If you look closely at a strawberry you will see the seeds on the outside of the berry with all the stigmas (the little hairy things) still attached. Pollination truly is a magical process!
Some pollinators need very specific plants to complete their life cycles. We, at Vineyard Gardens, encourage customers to plant native plants that have evolved together with the existing fauna. There has been a surge of understanding around the importance of caring for the native ecosystem through native plants to protect our pollinators. Horticulturalists are continually doing research and trials on plants that stand out as pollinator favorites. More and more customers are looking to grow pollinator friendly gardens and to cultivate a healthy native landscape. Cape Cod Native Plants.org has a wonderful online tool that helps you select the native plants best suited for your specific site.
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PLANT FOR POLLINATORS!
We can make a difference! BEE THE DIFFERENCE!” - Grow Massachusetts
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POLLINATOR FRIENDLY PERENNIALS
Perennial POLLINATORS
kudos Coral, kudos ambrosia, kudos Mandarin, Blue Fortune, Black Adder & Little Adder
Sombrero series, White Swan & Green Twister
Coreopsis
Solanna™ Bright Touch & UpTick™ Gold & Bronze
Phlox (Phlox paniculata)
Salvia
Perennial Sunflower (Helianthus)
native pollinator perennialS
Ageratum (coelestinum)
Aster ‘Woods Purple’ (Eurybia divaricata)
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POLLINATOR FRIENDLY SHRUBS
native pollinator shrubs
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
Beach Plum (Prunus maritima)
Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum)
Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
Sweet Pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)
American Elderberry (Sambucus nigra L. ssp. canadensis)
Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
Sweet Fern (Comptonia peregrina)
additional POLLINATOR shrubS
Butterfly Bush (Buddleia)
Double File Viburnum (Viburnum plicatum)
Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
Willow (Salix caprea)
Ninebark (Physocarpus)
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POLLINATOR FRIENDLY TREES
NATIVE POLLINATOR TREES
Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
White Oak (Quercus alba)
American Holly (Ilex opaca)
additional POLLINATOR treeS
Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
Magnolia grandiflora Little Gem
[VIDEO] Magnolia grandiflora Little Gem is full of pollinators! It is flowering now with large white fragrant flowers. Added bonus, it is also very deer resistant!
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