Pollinator Gardens in Bergen County
Sustainable Landscaping With Native Plants
Gardening with your children is a great way for a child to learn to appreciate both wildlife and plant-life. Plant a pollinator-friendly garden featuring native plants that attract and provide a habitat for birds, bees, larval and adult forms of butterflies and moths, and other beneficial insects. Not only is it fairly simple to learn the basics, but it also can be a very rewarding and educational experience for any child who has shown an interest in gardening.
You may not always be able to observe pollinators in your garden but they are constantly there, and are working to your advantage. Not only are pollinators, such as bees, wasps, flies, beetles, butterflies, moths, bats, and hummingbirds an important part of the natural environment, but they also benefit us by their services to plants.
“A garden is only as rich and beautiful as the integral health of the system; pollinators are essential to the system-make your home their home.”
Three Common Plant Pollinators In The Garden
As a group they pollinate fruits, vegetables, and flowers, making plants healthier and more likely to produce a better quality harvest. Their presence in the garden can only be positive. Some solitary bees, for example that nest in the ground build tunnels that improve soil texture, mix nutrients into the soil, as well as increase the movement of water around plant roots.
18 Native Perennials for Pollinator Gardens in Northern New Jersey
BeardTongue Penstemon
Coreopsis Grandiflora
Coreopsis Grandiflora
Jacobs Ladder
Nepeta Walkers Low
Stiff Gentian – Gentianella
Cardinal Flower
Echinacea Purpurea Coneflower
Helianthus Mollis
Geum Triflorum – Prairie Smoke
Zizia Aurea
Waterleaf – Hydrophyllum
Claytonia Virginica Spring Beauty
Evening Primrose
Hepatica Nobilis
Scarlet Bee Balm
Scutellaria Lateriflora – Skullcap
Hastata – Blue Vervain
Worldwide evidence shows that pollinator populations are declining. By creating attractive environments for pollinators in an urban setting you can provide essential habitats for these insects and birds. Habitats may not be widely available in a setting such as a new housing development, but you have the ability and means to provide one, after which your neighbors, upon seeing the benefits you are reaping, will probably follow suit. Pollinators, such as bees and butterflies, are also very interesting to observe, and when you foster a pleasant pollinator-friendly garden you can experience a piece of pure, wild nature in your own backyard.
POLLINATOR GARDEN RESOURCES:
The United States Department of Agriculture has provided this pdf Pollinator Design Guide containing a wealth of information regarding and pertaining to Pollinator Gardening with Native Plants. Garden designs for various layouts and habitat are included, plants are identified and denoted as per placement, and much more.
- Attracting Pollinators to the Garden by Denise Ellsworth, Department of Entomology Ohio State
- A listing of Perennial, Herb, Annuals, and Small Shrub Pollinator Plants
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