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 bees) 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!   

Drought resistant, long blooming, fragrant, deer resistant, easy growing!   Especially attractive to bumble bees no long-tongued pollinators.

Incredibly attractive to honey bees, 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. Loved by bees and butterflies.  

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

Sought after their beautiful blue colour!  (Please see ”Perennials“ for varieties available).

Loved  by hummingbirds, butterflies and bees!  Arching habit with impressive flowers.  Does best in full sun with well drained soil.  Non-invasive, smaller varieties available in amazing colours! Please see “Deciduous Shrubs” for more information on varieties.

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

Particularly suitable for costal gardens!   EVERGREEN, drought and deer resistang! 

Widely appreciated from their many outstanding qualities in the garden,  Easy care and their flowers attract many beneficial pollinators such as bees, 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.  Bridal Wreath “Pink Ice” (variegated leaves), and “Plumtastic”, leaves emerge purple fading to dark green. 

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

A great addition for bee-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 3 feet high and spread 6 feet.  Perfect for mass planting, rock/alpine gardens.  This is one of the prettiest contoneaster 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, bees and butterflies to your garden. Full sun and does not tolerate standing water.

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 bees.

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

Bees are attracted to poppies for their pollen, which is a primary source of protein for them.  

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 bees, bumble and native bees.

Drought and deer resistant, blooms from spring to frost, no fuss, easy care!  

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 bees and honey bees. 

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  bees and butterflies. 

Tall, graceful and extremely colourful flowers,  Best spot is full sun with well drained soil.  Very attractive to several types of bees, 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 bees, honey bees and some solitary bees and butterflies.

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

A delightful, deer resistant native plant that attracts bees, 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 bees.  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 bees and butterflies.   Deer resistant.

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

Clothed with stunning clusters of fragrant white flowers in late spring. Flowers are sweetly scented and double blooms.  Fast growing and grows  to  3’ x 3’.  Does best in full sun to part shade, is deciduous and very showy when in bloom. Sure to attract bees! 

A wonderful alpine or rock garden perennial! Forms a low, trailing mound or cushion of grey EVERGREEN leaves, bearing masses of FRAGRANT soft-yellow flowers in mid spring. Requires good drainage, drought tolerant, very hardly.  Grows to 4 inches tall and 18 inches wide. Needs full sun for best results. Strong, sweet scent attracts bees from large distances! Also a butterfly magnet. 

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 bees & hummingbirds.

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

Delicately scented flowers are a magnet for bees and hummingbirds.