15 SPECIALIST POLLINATOR PLANTS for the Garden — Ep. 129

If you're interested in attracting native specialist pollinators to your garden like we are, then you may want to consider these 15 plants that have co-evolved with a group of pollinators that rely on them. This is a multi-part series of videos focusing on supporting and growing the specialist pollinator community—and you can just do it in a small space, if that's all you have.

Feel free to take that handout to your local nursery or garden center and encourage them to carry more specialist pollinator plants.

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[FlockFingerLakes]

Feel free to take that handout to your local nursery or garden center and encourage them to carry more specialist pollinator plants.

[PlantRelated]

i love how you said If you want to have the cultivated variety, do that, and make sure to also have the native variety. <3

[Sheltervol]

I planted some Calico Aster in a pot, late in the season last year. Wow, what a plant. Beautiful. I’m definitely gonna put some in the ground this year.

[YurioZet]

Varieties do prove a garden magnificent! Great! :)

[karldean]

We can't go wrong with planting native plants for wildlife! Great job, your local wildlife will be grateful.
So many intricate ecological benefits that we may never understand.
My favourite specialist flower is the beautiful Foxglove (unfortunately invasive in your country) however, in England it is a powerhouse for our longer tongued bumblebees!

[HowardRice]

Your pollinator series is really interesting. And thanks so much for giving the latin names. Some of the plants you mention are widely grown in the UK but many of them you just don't see in cultivation here which is surprising as they are very ornamental. I shall look them up.

[Pervydachny]

Hello! Thank you for the interesting video. These plants must grow in our gardens. Good luck to you👍🌻💙

[shephusted]

bee balm and butterfly bushes are great - you have to plant a lot to make any impact - go big or go home

[georgekurywczak]

There are very many medicinal herbs that do the same functions and are native to local areas. The biggest problem for the specialist pollinators is that habit is not provided, and/or is being destroyed. Pastures are mowed and planted with grass. At least if not mowed, certain animals species live in those grasses, hide in those grasses. But a wild maintained pasture, I know contradictory but it isn't if you use stewardship, provides habitat and cover for small animals from predators in the sky or on the watch. A more diverse and healthy community of animals is created, bringing in all the wanted pollinators and other wild creatures that help the ecosystem of our gardens/forests.

The addition to having medicinal benefits, these herbs provide many textures, colors, sizes, shapes, and are beautiful to observes and in many cases wonderful aromas are present in the air.

Love that you care about these specialists. Permaculture demands they are needed for a thriving and producing system. It makes it less work for us as nature takes care of itself and therefor us as a consequence.

[cefcat]

Snow drifts of tiny flowers is something for which one could strive, to place in protected from mower places, like next to a steel fence.

[emkn]

I had a boltonia self sow in my annual flower patch so I let it grow. It grew taller than me and is always buzzing with every type of bee, etc. as autumn takes over. I absolutely love it!

[allonesame]

These are very suited to my soil and zone! Thank you so much for turning me on to these!

[tuhkathri]

This great info as I get prepared for next spring to make my all native gardenscape

[judymckerrow]

Thank you Ms. Summer, I found your information very interesting.🍁🍂🍁💚🙃

[charlesbale]

I really appreciated the information you shared. I will go on to research this further for my area.

[cefcat]

Thistles standing stately, side by side, in royal purple colors, at almost 7 feet tall, is a setting for photo models and now specialized pollinators. My roommate was an amateur photographer. I stood in the thistles at age 22. When it was suggested that I put on my new long, off-white, thin flowing cotton dress and place myself, as if sleeping still, on a floating carpet of lime green pond algae, I angrily declined. The thistles were difficult, but a better choice. The bees really like the largest of sunflowers here too. This October they still stand, as usual, in front of a Church. They have huge flowers, stalks and are 9-10 feet tall. That made me think of your deer. 🌻🌻🌻🦌🦌🦌

[nathanaelcard]

Loved this ep. I too am on to the specialists

[nathanaelcard]

This is a book I would buy, just saying!

[lucysalas]

Thank you so much for these videos. I have a small 1/4 acre garden and would like to improve the environment for pollinators. This year, I was overjoyed to see so many return following many years of decline. I learned that asters were very important from a British garden revival video so I have a lot of asters but your video provides more specific information that will help me improve my garden. Thanks to your bulb shopping video, I am planting many native tulip species and very early flowers.

[ourcozygarden]

Great list reference. We’re in western Canada so definitely can use it 😀