As the weather warms up and perennials begin to sprout I find myself in the gardening mood! DON’T miss out on great deals! Click here for a list of native plants that are pollinator favorites. DON’T cut foliage before it is yellow and dying. Lesser known or wild-type berries are just as nutritious, but require less maintenance. You can also read the documentation to learn about Wordfence's blocking tools, or visit wordfence.com to learn more about Wordfence. If you want to bee an insect expert, get one of of these lenses for yourself and snap away! The bright orange-red blooms of the ice plant will warm up the cool hues of the eryngiums. ‘Red Lake’ is a type that grows well here in Kansas, with bountiful bunches of marble-sized red berries. There are some bulbs native to North America, such as Claytonia virginica and Mertensia virginica as well as the trout lily, but they are too often upstaged by fancy exotics. For a rock garden or sunny burm, try this combination of Eryngium yuccafolium (Rattlesnake Master) and Eryngium planum (‘Blue Glitter’ Globe Flower) that will complement each other’s whimsical, spherical blooms. Blue Star *Eryngium p. Blue GlitterEryngium maritimum *Eryngium yuccifoliumEupatorium d. Baby JoeEupatorium maculatum GatewayEupatorium Ivory Towers *Euphorbia Ascot RainbowEuphorbia Bonfire[/toggle], [toggle title=”F”]Fern – Athyrium Burgundy LaceFern – Athyrium Dre’s DaggerFrench Marigold (Tagetes patula) (annual)[/toggle], [toggle title=”G”]Gaillardia Sunset CelebrationGalium oderatumGeranium RozanneGillenia trifoliataGeum Totally TangerineGrass – Andropogon Indian WarriorGrass – Calamagrostis brachytrichaGrass – Festuca Beyond Blue *Grass – Hakonechloa macra AureolaGrass – Miscanthus s. giganteusGrass – Miscanthus s. MalepartusGrass – Miscanthus s. Morning LightGrass – Miscanthus s. StrictusGrass – Pennisetum a. Pollinator gardens are the current craze, and rightly so! Maybe you can use some of my recent sketches, maybe they will inspire you to draw up some of your own! Planting Veronicastrum ‘Lavender Towers’ (Culver’s Root) or Eupatorium maculatum (Joe Pye Weed) between tall, strong stemmed grasses can keep them upright in a stiff prairie wind. Growing berries can be fun and easy! Ida in Turkey, where the citizens of ancient Troy dined on them. Sporobolus heterolepsis adds tremendous movement and texture to any garden. Partnering plants is the fun part of perennial gardening – let your imagination go wild! Scott and our board chairwoman Lorna Harder led two buses full of Arboretum supporters, nature enthusiasts and umbraphiles  to Prairie Gold Nursery in York, just on the north side of the totality zone. Pugster Blue butterfly bush and ‘Gone with the Wind’ Dropseed mix well because of their similar habit but contrasting leaf shape. Crocus, species-variety Tulips and Muscari all are well-loved by hungry bees waking up from their long hibernation as well as wild type daffodils such as Narcissus poeticus or N. jonquilla. We all love the aesthetics of fat yellow daffodils and spritely crocus, but I had never considered whether they served an ecological purpose. If you don’t have a perennial garden, here is a list of popular annual plants that bees love! Large Milkweed Bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) on the underside of a fuzzy Common Milkweed leaf (Asclepias syriaca). Watching it with the 120 people on our trip in such a beautiful setting made it even better.” After all, you can never have too much spring color! Design Ideas Even more white than its variegated sister, this is an improved accent for beds and borders. Everybody’s favorite mid-summer treat, strawberries, are easy to establish and spread via runners to increase yields year after year. Just as cute as its name, this dwarf holly, only 3-4 feet tall, is easy to plunk into the landscape in any open space. Graphic from Lowes.com, https://www.lowes.com/projects/gardening-and-outdoor/prune-trees-and-shrubs/project. Asarum canadense (Wild Ginger) + Matteuchia struthiopteris (Ostrich Fern), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AEryngium_planum_bgiu.jpg. Reduce the amount of tilling every year to ensure that ground dwelling beetle populations aren’t decimated. Green leaves are still sending food down to the bulb. Waldesteinia fragoides (Barren strawberry) might be the perfect ground cover to suppress weeds around it all. Pines – early spring just as new growth begins, but not before. Late Fall Bloomers: Salvia sp., Rudbeckia triloba, Echinacea, Aster novea-anglea, Aster oblongifolius, Solidago sp. Listen for the enthusiastic young boy exclaiming “totality! Bees love Fritillaria meleagris, a dainty and unique bulb native to Europe. Leave your grasses and flower stems standing all winter to provide protected hollows and nooks for bees to hibernate in. Trim the leaves to the ground in late winter to feature the flower blooms. Though true winter approaches, there are still a few warm, sunny days ahead to be filled with raking leaves and garden clean-up. Hybrid flowers can also pose a problem – they are bred for beauty and not nectar production, resulting in little usable nectar for visiting bees. Leave them uncut until they are truly yellowed and no longer photosynthesizing. Photo courtesy of Proven Winners – www.provenwinners.com (left) and Walters Gardens, Inc. (right). You will then receive an email that helps you regain access. In fact, the University of Maryland extension called parasitoid wasps “the single most important biological control method gardeners have”. Fish and Wildlife Service about what you can do to help save the rusty patched bumble bee! What plants can partner together to beat the heat? All three of the following berry-producers bear stunning white blooms and produce fruit with high nutritional content for your table or for the birds to enjoy! ‘Tristan’ and ‘Ruby Ann’ are examples of this type. ), and many more. on Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea) with pollen on his hairy legs. For an area that can use some height, install some Miscanthus grass for a big effect in fall. By choosing unhybridized species, the flower retains its pollen and nectar, supplying much needed early spring feeding for hungry pollinators. Planting raised berms/mounds of clump and tuft forming grasses such as Panicum, Tripsacum, or Sprobolous, invites ground-dwelling beetles to stick around. Example: a 2 inch tall daffodil bulb should be planted 6 inches deep. Here at the Arboretum we leave our perennial gardens uncut through the winter to create winter habitat and protect the soil, but just like you, we are plenty busy piling up leaves and preparing our Christmas decorations. Not only are the Eryngiums major pollinator magnets, they are also long lasting cut flowers! Because of this, avoid buying highly modified ‘double’ and ‘triple’ bloomers or extra-petaled flowers that will likely inhibit a pollinator’s ability to feed. Be wary of using too many hybrids in your garden without doing some pollinator researching. Sorting out the technicalities will ensure correct planting and big blooms! and benefit from the light shade cast by the flowers above them. A layer of straw or mulch around new plants will aide in retaining soil moisture. These berries all taste best after some type of processing (cooking, freezing, juicing, etc). Novelist Margaret Mitchell is said to have pronounced upon completion of Gone With the Wind (a work that took her almost 10 years to produce): “In a weak moment, I have written a book.” It’s easy to arrive at the finish line beleaguered and baffled. watch as a paper wasp forages on horsetail milkweed flowers and the pollen-covered bee in the picture above enjoys a snack on some purple prairie clover. Choose a fertilizer high in phosphorus and be sure to mix it with water or water it into the soil. At Plant Paradise Country Gardens we control every aspect of growing plants on-site. Find more of his photography at http://www.selective-focus.com/.

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