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How to Create a Beautiful Pollination Garden for Butterflies and Bees

Pollination Garden for Butterflies and Bees



With these tips on how to grow a pollinator garden, welcome all kinds of beneficial wildlife to your yard — and enjoy a beautiful landscape. One of the best things about gardening is bringing beneficial wildlife into your yard, especially pollinators. Bees and butterflies may come to mind first, but many insects like moths, wasps, and beetles also help plants produce fruits and seeds by transferring pollen from flower to flower. Most of these creatures don't sting, so you don't need to worry about them when welcoming nature into your garden (if you're allergic to bites, you should be extra careful).


However, no plant will attract pollinators to your yard; You should include species with nectar-rich flowers. The more you know about how to create a pollinator garden, the more you can enjoy butterflies and other attractive insects.


Best plant varieties for a pollinator garden


In addition to perennials and annuals, many vines, shrubs, and trees produce pollinator-attracting flowers. Plants with brightly colored flowers, usually orange, red, and yellow, seem more attractive to bees and other flying insects. Some of the best wildlife-attracting flowers for pollinating gardens are those that are open or flat, allowing easy access to pollen and honey.


Look for these plants to add to your landscaping to start learning how to create a pollinator garden. They are known to be very attractive to all kinds of pollinators.


1. Black-Eyed Susan



Plant a bright yellow pond with black-eyed Susan in your garden. The beautiful blooms on these flowers bring plenty of pollinators to your garden. These native plants are drought tolerant, making them easy to care for. "Rudbeckia hirta." North Carolina State Extension. There are many varieties of black-eyed Susan, so you'll have plenty of choices when looking for the perfect one to fit your landscape.


2. Butterfly bush



As the name suggests, all kinds of butterflies visit this plant and hummingbirds love it too. Butterfly bush has a sweet scent that attracts pollinators near and far. However, this plant is considered an invasive plant in warmer parts of the country, so check to see if it is a problem plant in your area before planting it.


3. Coneflower



Purple coneflower is a prairie native that attracts bees and other pollinating insects. These shuttlecock-shaped flowers are purplish pink, but new varieties have expanded the palette to yellow, orange, burgundy and cream. Do not choose double varieties as they are not as useful for pollinators.


4. Yarrow



Yarrow is an easy-to-grow favorite that adds a wildflower look to your pollinator garden. Use yarrow as a ground cover or in borders to attract pollinating bees to your space. Spent flowers are important for plant regeneration, but if you don't want deadhead yarrow, you can leave the plant's dried flowers for winter interest.


Pollinator Garden Planting Tips


Helping your local pollinators goes beyond the plants you choose. Follow these tips to maximize your garden's support for these essential insects.


Sort pollinating plants into groups


Plant at least three to five types of pollinator plants throughout the garden. You get beautiful drifts of color and insects can easily gather the food they need from them.


Keep the blooms deadhead


Newly opened flowers contain more nectar and pollen. If you remove wilted, wilted flowers, plants will often produce more new flowers to keep pollinators away.


Try a container


Another way to create a pollinator garden is to plant one in a container. Make sure the plants you put together in the pots have similar maintenance requirements.

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