Pollinator Gardens

Extremely popular not without reason!  Heat and drought resistant, easy to grow, blooms for months and make brilliant cut flowers. The flowers have a very big landing pad, bright colours (in the range seen by 🐝 ) and has lots of great nectar and pollen! Loved by pollinators and some varieties are commonly used in herbal remedies. 

Extremely showy, and summer-blooming!   The name says it all!  Rich in nectar, attracts 🐝 , butterflies & hummingbirds.

Drought resistant, long blooming, fragrant, deer resistant, easy growing!   Especially attractive to bumble 🐝  & long-tongued pollinators.

Incredibly attractive to honey 🐝 , many of our native bees, bumble bees and butterflies!
“Blue Marvel” Salvia: stunning addition to borders! Long blooming! 

Fragrant, long blooming, compact with a punch of colour! Rich in pollen and nectar! DEER AND DROUGHT RESISTANT!.  

Abundance of huge flat topped, clusters of small flowers. Easy care, drought, deer and rabbit resistant.  Full sun lover, needs good drainage. Rich in nectar, attracts 🐝  & butterflies.  

Long flowering season! Keeps on giving!  Loved by 🐝  and butterflies, deer & drought resistant.  Easy to grow. 

Sought after their beautiful blue colour! Lots of different varieties this year, including compact varieties,  white- and red flowering varieties.

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Loved  by hummingbirds, butterflies and 🐝 !  Arching habit with impressive flowers.  Does best in full sun with well drained soil.  Non-invasive, smaller varieties available in amazing colours! 

Sought after for their amazing sweet fragrance! Lilac bushes prefer full sun and well drained soil. Attracts honey🐝 and leafcutters (specialized little 🐝). 

Widely appreciated from their many outstanding qualities in the garden,  Easy care and their flowers attract many beneficial pollinators such as 🐝, butterflies and hummingbirds.  Small songbirds often build their nests amid the multi-stemmed branches and dense foliage. DEER and DROUGHT resistant.  
Varieties this year: “Mellow Yellow”: stunning display of white flowers and stand-out orange fall colour. 4-5’ tall & wide.

Plumtastic”: leaves emerge purple, fading to dark green. Pink flowers, compact and tidy.  Grows 2-3’ tall and wide,

“Mini-Sunglo”: dwarf & compact! Brilliant bright lime colour, pink flowers, Grows 1’ tall & 2’ wide.

Primary source of nectar for bees, especially honey 🐝, carpenter 🐝 and leaf cutting 🐝. 

A great addition for 🐝-gardens.  They will attract a variety of bee species to your garden. Easy to care for!

A very showy dwarf with its little whitte flowers in spring on delicately arching/spreading brances and showy red fruit in fall.  Grows 2‘ tall x 3’ wide.  Perfect for mass planting, rock/alpine gardens.  This is one of the prettiest cotoneaster varieties by far!  It keeps its dark green colour right through the winter, and the very fine texture makes it extremely interesting. A wonderful choice for attracting birds, 🐝 and butterflies to your garden. A real little gem! 

Sedums have succulent fleshy leaves and produces clusters of flowers from summer to fall.  Well  drained soil and full sun a must. Do not overwater.  Flowers are extremely attractive to late flying butterflies and 🐝. Use in rock gardens, as groundcovers & containers.

Desired by gardeners in a large range of landscape situations.  Growing poppies is simple and rewarding!  

Attracts honey🐝, bumble🐝 and various species of solitary 🐝 like leafcutters.   

Please see “ Ground covers” for more information.

Robust, thriving in harsh conditions, long flowering season, deer and rabbit resistant, fragrant and adored by bees! Attracts honey 🐝, bumble and native bees.

Drought and deer resistant, blooms from late spring to frost, no fuss, easy care!    Attracts small 🐝, mason 🐝, and small carpenter 🐝.

A high-impact, long blooming perennial, with low water requirements. Comes in a broad palette of colours and sizes. Summer blooming and full sun lovers. Especially loved by hummingbirds, bumble 🐝 and honey 🐝. 

Dependable and easy care! Requires well drained soil and full sun.  Keep plants well watered for their first season to get them established,  once established they are drought resistant.  Deer resistant.  Attractive to 🐝 and butterflies. 

Tall, graceful and extremely colourful flowers,  Best spot is full sun with well drained soil.  Very attractive to several types of 🐝, escpecaily bumblebees.

Easy to grow, attractive, fragrant and a brilliant addition to any rock garden, border or container garden.  Full sun with well drained soil is ideal. A wonderful producer of pollen and nectar with a long blooming season. Attracts bumble 🐝, honey 🐝 and some solitary 🐝 and butterflies.

Nearly year around flowering on compact evergreen shrubs.  Finely textured and thrives in coastal conditions. Honey🐝 and bumble🐝 seems especially  attracted to the flowers.  Also loved by butterflies and hummingbirds.

A delightful, deer resistant native plant that attracts 🐝, butterflies and hummingbirds! Attractive glossy dark leaves set off the white or pink, extra large fragrant summer blooms.  Extremely versatile, does well in full sun to full shade! Please see “Deciduous Shrubs” for more information. 

Evergreen, flowering, drought and deer resistant, and loved by 🐝.  Bring on the heat! Euphorbias are a delight in the garden, please see “Interesting Evergreen” for our award winning varieties. 

A highly adaptable little shrub! Delightful in fall. Drought and deer resistant. Lightly scented flowers adored by 🐝.

An easy-care evergreen shrub with a profusion of  fragrant, white, crabapple-like flowers, pretty glossy leaves, and red new growth!  An attractive compact shape, slow growing, reaches around  3 -4‘ tall and 3 feet wide in 10 years ( 6 feet tall in 20 years if left unpruned).  Fraggrant flowers lures 🐝 and butterflies.   

A small flowering evergreen tree or shrub related to the Magnolia. Lush, dark green leaves.  Pure white, cream or pink flowers with delicate petals and yellow centred are floriferous from early to late spring and intermittently through the year! Makes for an excellent garden specimen or hedge.  Plant where you can enjoy the beautiful flowers and subtle fragrance.  Fast growing!
Magnet for 🐝and other pollinators when in bloom! Essential for maintaining biodiversity.

Bees flock to daphne, because of the intensely fragrant blooms and rich nectar. Daphnes are a important food source for pollinators like honey 🐝 , bumble 🐝 , and solitary 🐝 .  

Flowers provide nectar & pollen for honey🐝 and native 🐝 while plant offers a neating site for some native bees.  The plant also attracts other pollinators, food for wildlife, making it a valuable  part of a healthy ecosystem.  

Brilliant evergreen, deep green, small aromatic foilage!  White/pale blue flowers in summer,  Grows 2 feet tall spreading to 6.  Deer and drought resistant, flowers are rich in nectar and loved by 🐝 & hummingbirds.

Bees are frequent visitors wisteria flowers, especially bumble🐝 and solitary species. Invaluable food source for bees, hummingbirds and  birds also like to nibble on the buds in spring.  Deer resistant. 

Lovely litte gem of a shrub, 2-3’ tall & wide, late purple flowers, adored by 🐝!