Proof Is in the Pollinators

Plant it and they will come

Shelley Haefner is sharing a beautiful garden with us today .

One of the best manner to know if you ’re plant forpollinatorsis if you see a continual increment in the varieties that jaw . My gardens are organically grow in Old Chatham New York , Zone 5b , where we have a passably short growing time of year . Over the last few years , we ’ve gone from see to it a fewbeesand butterfly to witness a tenfold increase . Part of the reason is the addition of brightly coloredperennialsand an increase focus on adding the pollinators’host plant . I thought I ’d apportion my “ Perennial Playland , ” which attracts the most beautiful visitors to my garden .

It ’s a riot of coloring in this ‘ Perennial Playland ’ garden ! This garden is chockful of unlike variety show for summer color , likeconeflowers(Echinaceahybrids , Zones 4–9 ) , daylilies(Hemerocallishybrids , Zones 4–10 ) , lobelia(Lobeliacardinalis , Zones 3–9 ) , Joe Pye weed(Eupatoriummaculatum , Zones 3–8 ) , and more .

The terrace space planted up with ‘ Golden Jubilee ’ hyssop(Agastache‘Golden Jubilee ’ , zone 5–8 ) and commingle with the Giant Benarys zinnias(Zinniaelegans , yearly ) that I set about from source is very popular with the butterfly and bee .

Babyhummingbirdslearning to eat for the first time sip from different plants and stop for a rest on Adobe Orange coneflowers .

Multiple visitors love the ‘ Mama Mia ’ coneflowers .

easterly tiger swallowtail on ‘ Mama Mia ’ coneflower

Syrphid fly on Pow Wow Wild Berry coneflowers.(Yes , this looks like a hornet at first coup d’oeil . Many fly mime the smell of bees and hornets so predators will bequeath them alone . But syrphid tent-fly do n’t sting and are excellentpollinators . )

bumblebee ofttimes visit Kismet acute Orange coneflowers , along with various master .

Black swallow-tailed coat visit thesezinniasthat I ’ve mixed in with dill weed in thevegetable garden . dill weed is one of the host flora for theircaterpillars .

Even the the daylilies get some care !

We also have a healthy and diverse population of dragonflies .

checkered lily on ‘ Ice Ballet’milkweed(Asclepias incarnata‘Ice Ballet ’ , Zones 3–9 )

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