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Category Archives: pollinators’ garden
The Blazing Star
I plant mountain mint or clover for the varied bee visitors and blazing star liatris for the butterflies. Each flower bed now show off the purple stalks, including the roadside. Every year, I add to the collection and split the larger clumps. I’ve found a few reliable mail orders but these days you can find … Continue reading
Mountain Mint Season
It’s mountain mint season! I’ve been waiting, not so patiently, for the native mint to bloom. A few flowers peeked open today. The honey bees have already found the blossoms. They’d been scoping it out for a week. The girls seemed as eager as I have, clearly for different reasons. Pycanthemum Muticum, or short-toothed mountain … Continue reading
Swallowtail
Milkweed is a favorite. We have several varieties around the farmette. This one is the top choice for all. Continue reading
Lamb’s Ear
It keeps spreading! The bumblebees love it so I don’t mind. What started as one salvaged plant from the old house, has now become a bed of fuzzy, silver leaves. As a keeper of European honeybees and chickens, I’m clearly not a purist. Those two species originally came from Asia. The Europeans are clearly not … Continue reading
