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Gardening for Native Pollinators! Conservation in your Backyard Backyard conservation that helps native bees and butterflies will have a positive effect on the greater environment. Garden Features Gardening Practices Plant Selection Garden

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Gardening for Native Pollinators!

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Conservation in your Backyard

Backyard conservation that helps native bees and butterflies will have a positive effect on the greater environment. Garden Features Gardening Practices Plant Selection

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Garden Features to Attract Butterflies and Pollinators

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A Diverse Landscape

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Shelter and Basking Spots

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A Water Feature

tiger swallowtails puddling cupplant

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Bare Soil & Mud Spots

great golden digger wasp cicada killer

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Natural Mulches

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Dead Wood & Brush Piles

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Butterfly and Bee Houses

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Gardening Practices to Sustain Butterflies and Pollinators

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Garden Style

Naturalized Border garden

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Maximize Space

Any spaces not used to full advantage?

  • a steep slope
  • the boulevard
  • the odd space behind the garage
  • the narrow space between houses
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Smaller Intentional Lawn

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Alternative Lawn

Use no or more targeted herbicides Clover, dandelions, & creeping Charlie are great for bees

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Eliminate Chemicals

Herbicides Insecticides

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Garden Clean-up

  • Keep some “messy” areas
  • Leave dead standing stems
  • Don’t disturb habitat from late fall to spring
  • Leave some fallen fruit
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Selecting Plants for Butterflies and Pollinators

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Native or Non-native?

Native Non-native cultivated Non-native invasive

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Cultivated Flowers

Bloodroot

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Don’t Use Invasive species

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Native Plant Suppliers

Landscape Alternatives, Scandia Outback Nursery, Hastings Prairie Moon Nursery, Winona Prairie Restorations, Inc., Princeton and Scandia Naturallywildflowers.com, Minneapolis

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Provide Plants for All Life Stages

caterpillar feeding monarchs mating monarchs on blazingstar chrysalis

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Functional Guild

Diversity in

  • Plant form or habit
  • Flower type
  • Flower color
  • Bloom season
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Woody Plants

Deciduous Evergreen Tree - Shrub - Vine Canopy Layer Sub-canopy Layer Shrub Layer

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Graminoids

Grasses and sedges Tallgrass or shortgrass Cool or warm season

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Forbs

Flower types - Family Bloom season Habit

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Plant Portfolio

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Trees

Aspen Basswood Birch Wild cherry Oak Willow

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Shrubs

Blackberry Bush honeysuckle Dogwood Elderberry Gooseberry New Jersey tea Rose Viburnum Wild plum

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Native Grasses

Hairy grama Bouteloua hirsuta Sideoats grama Bouteloua curtipendula Little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium Prairie dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis

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Woodland Sedges

Pennsylvania sedge Carex pensylvanica Sprengel’s sedge Carex sprengelii

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Aster Family

Purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea Sneezeweed Helenium autumnale Sunflower Helianthus spp. Common ox-eye Heliopsis helianthoides Gray-headed coneflower Ratibida pinnata Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta Cup-plant Silphium perfoliatum

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Aster Family Big-leaved aster Aster macrophyllus New England aster Aster novae-angliae Arrow-leaved aster Aster sagittifolius Silky aster Aster sericeus

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Aster Family Rough blazing star Liatris aspera Meadow blazing star Liatris ligulistylis Dotted blazing star Liatris punctata Prairie blazing star Liatris pycnostachya

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Aster Family Zig-zag goldenrod Solidago flexicaulis Gray goldenrod Solidago nemoralis Stiff goldenrod Solidago rigida Elm-leaved goldenrod Solidago ulmifolia

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Aster Family Joe-pye weed Eupatorium maculatum White snakeroot Eupatorium rugosum Ironweed Vernonia fasciculata

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Milkweed Family

Marsh milkweed Asclepias incarnata Common milkweed A. syriaca Butterflyweed A. tuberosa Whorled milkweed A. verticillata

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Mint Family

Giant blue hyssop Agastache foeniculum Wild lavender bergamot Monarda fistulosa Obedient plant Physostegia virginiana Virginia mountain mint Pycnanthemum virginianum

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Parsley Family

Rattlesnake master Eryngium yuccifolium Golden alexanders Zizia aurea

black swallowtail butterfly larvae

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Pea Family

Lead plant Amorpha canescens Wild white indigo Baptisia alba Purple prairie clover Dalea purpurea White prairie clover Dalea candida Lupine Lupinus perennis Partridge pea Cassia fasciculata

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Snapdragon Family

Red turtlehead Chelone obliqua White beardtongue Penstemon digitalis Figwort Scrophularia lanceolata Culver’s root Veronicastrum virginicum

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Gentian Family

Bottle gentian Gentiana andrewsii Cream gentian Gentiana flavida

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Buttercup Family

Pasque flower Anemone patens Wood anemone Anemone quinquefolia Rue anemone Anemonella thalictroides Columbine Aquilegia canadensis Marsh marigold Caltha palustris Sharp-lobed hepatica Hepatica acutiloba

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Geranium Family Wild geranium Geranium maculatum Poppy Family Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis Violet Family Bird’s-foot violet Viola pedata Phlox Family Wild blue phlox Phlox divaricata Jacob’s ladder Polemonium reptans

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Thank You!

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Connection to Native Habitat

Your yard can be productive habitat and a connection to green spaces in your community

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Vervain Family

Hoary vervain Verbena stricta Blue vervain Verbena hastata

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Campanula Family

Harebell Campanula rotundifolia Cardinal flower Lobelia cardinalis Great blue lobelia Lobelia siphilitica