Pollinator Plants

Close view of a Great Blue Lobelia flower spike with blue-violet flowers.

Great Blue Lobelia: Bringing Beauty and Structure to the Habitat Garden

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Lobelia siphilitica There are some native plants I grow primarily because of what they do. Goldenrods and asters support an incredible variety of insects. Swamp milkweed provides food for monarch caterpillars. Virginia mountain mint can become absolutely covered in pollinators. Late boneset seems to turn into an insect gathering place as soon as it begins

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Plains coreopsis flowers with a hoverfly visiting a bloom in a dense patch of yellow and red flowers.

Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria): A Native Annual That Finds Its Own Place

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Some plants become part of a garden because you carefully decide exactly where they belong. Others seem more interested in making that decision themselves. Plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) has become one of those plants for me. Its small yellow flowers, usually marked with deep reddish-brown near the center, don’t dominate the garden. Instead, they seem

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