PETITTI | Pollinator Garden Tour

We visited a fabulous pollinator garden in Northeast Ohio, full of annuals and perennials sure to attract all types of pollinators! Watch this video with Noelle, Horticulturist and Education Manager with Petitti Garden Centers, to get a tour of a local NEO pollinator garden and to learn what plants you can start your own garden with! The most well-known pollinators include bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, though it is interesting (perhaps exciting or shocking, even) for many to learn that bats, moths, and beetles are also actors in the process of pollination. The three main things to remember when building the perfect place for pollinators in your garden is to have sources for food, water, and shelter. Some of our favorite plants for pollinators include Coneflowers (Echinacea), Cosmos, Ornamental Onion (Allium), Milkweed (Asclepias), and Butterfly Bush (Buddleia).

[katherinecornette]

This is what makes a garden come alive! Birds, bees, butterflies all enjoying the flowers 🌸

[ramonakaufman]

Butterfly bush came up by chance in our yard, and this past summer, mostly bees were attracted to it. Seldom saw butterflies. But was happy to have bees to pollinate squash and tomato. Plan to go bigger next summer.

[tinajohnson]

I love seeing the plants in a real life application setting. Allows us to see what works well together

[leiaflash]

Love this pollinator garden! Thank you for taking us on this tour 😀

[joannelop]

Great Video. It has given me some ideas for more pollinator plants. I find my big box Goldstrum rudbekia doesnt attract bees the same way as native varieties. The good thing is the seed reverts back to whatever native strain and the bees love those. I take the babies and plant them in my garden so the bees have some good stuff to collect.

[emkn]

I loved everything about this video, it was so packed full of valuable information! Include umbellifers like parsley and dill for swallowtails to munch on. In general pollinator gardens should also include food sources for butterfly caterpillars, but of course that means pretty plants will get munched 🐛

[Victoria-ptll]

This was I’be been gardening seriously for just a year now and this year I’m focused on pollinators… so much great information. Just bought 3 milkweed plants today! Thank you _ you’re such a wealth of knowledge and inspiration 💫

[ettietti]

Dear Petti thank you so much for your detail’s explanation of your pollinator garden, the flower names, the bolds color, and all the things that we need for a successful garden pollinator garden, 12 years ago I created what I called semi pollinator garden when I have some of the flowers that you mention, but I am looking for renovating my garden and one of them is my pollinator garden p.s. your zoning garden the same as my garden Zoning (ontario Canada) 😍❤👍👍👍

[johnkulcsar]

Outstanding & informative video. THANKS

[BukeyeStateGardening]

An absolutely beautiful garden and presentation! I plant two uptick yellow and red coreopsis, and the bees love them!!!

[billwest]

Your plant placement allows pollinators to collect efficiently. If you get a chance try wild quinine and goldenrod. The latter is top host plant and the former brings the full range of pollinators.

[LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

I love your garden!! It’s an inspiration to me as I am also a gardener and YouTube creator. l’m just harvesting my first fruits and veggies so exciting! I wish you a happy growing season. I still have so much to learn and I appreciate your tips, tricks! Please Keep sharing! I would love to learn more about gardening from each other.

[shellemorgan]

Great information offered in this video. Thank you so much for sharing and I’m excited to start a pollinator garden next spray.

[barbarawinters]

Great presentation! I was hoping you’d mention the tall grass at the end of the garden. We have three waiting to be planted. Are there benefits to including them in the pollinator garden? Many thanks!

[diversitylove]

Thanks for the walk through 💕

🙋‍♀️ what kind of shelter should be built into the pollinator garden? I understand after they caterpillar and eat, they cocoon. Also for the sweat bees, how do you make nesting for them in the ground? 😊

[jdy]

Honeybees don’t care if you are right there. Mine just fly around my head when I have to garden in front of the hive.

[lynnehershberger]

Great video! Used some of your thoughts for my horticulture report on Pollinators at my local garden club this week!! We want to make a pollinator garden at our local garden center which is part of Canton City Park Dept. How can we keep it neat and tidy? Plants to avoid?

[kendalbell]

Amazing info! What’s the white spiky flower near the alliums? It’s center-screen at 5:35. Veronica maybe? Beautiful garden!!

[nancytipping]

This is not meant to be critical, but you have a lot of non native plants here. They might be good for nectar and pollen, but the foliage won't support the full ecosystem of insects (bird food like spiders, crickets, grasshoppers etc.) because the leaves aren't native. Also, honey bees are native to Europe and I want my plants to be useful to our struggling native bees. Here in Connecticut we have over 300 different kinds of native bees and one non native honey bee. Our farmers now sometimes pay for honey bees to be brought to their farms to pollinate the crops. Our native bees used to do that and if we support them, they will be able to do it again. I don't mean to be critical, but these are the thoughts I had as I listened to your video. What do you think?

[sherriianiro]

Not sure if you mentioned it or not but no pesticides includes chemical fertilizers that drift to flowers and according to beekeepers bees pollinate & end up poisoning whole hive. Butterflies are especially sensitive. Everything needs to be organic.