Native Garden Designs
Wild Ones Native Garden Designs This site provides practical, educationally-sound information on native landscaping developed specifically for first-time native plant gardeners looking for help getting started. The site also features a growing number of free, downloadable native garden designs created by professional landscape designers for multiple ecoregions in the United States, taking into ...
Gardens Designed for Pollinators The gardens pictured here include many different flowers that will bloom throughout the growing season. Planting flowers so something is blooming from spring through fall provides a continuous source of food for pollinators . The native plants selected for these gardens provide pollinators with particularly high value nectar and pollen. In addition to planting ...
Pollinator Garden Layout and Design Plans
Our Pollinator Paradise Flower Garden Layout is both beautiful and purposeful. This garden design focuses on open, native flowers that are easy for pollinators to access for a vibrant garden—like lavender, echinacea, and borage. Attract bees, butterflies, and hoverflies while providing colorful blooms from early spring to autumn!
A true pollinator garden is more than "some flowers in a bed." It's a deliberately designed planting that gives bees, butterflies, moths, and other insects reliable food, host plants, and safe shelter through the whole growing season while still looking intentional in a real yard. This guide walks you through what pollinators actually need, why native plants are essential, and how to ...
Pollinator Garden Ideas
Pollinator Gardens : Plants, Designs & Care Guide Create a pollinator garden that actually feeds wildlife—not just looks pretty. This hub shows you the best native plants, proven design combos, state-by-state picks, and no-spray care so bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds thrive from spring through fall.
This guidebook is designed to help a beginner native plant gardener - to plan, design , solarise, plant and maintain a successful pollinator garden , from start to finish. We are very grateful for the assistance of members of the North American Native Plant Society (NANPS); they have helped edit and provide photographs for this guide.
Pollinator Plants & Design
Pollinator Plants & Design was developed out of my passion for nature and thrill of seeing butterflies in my garden in the summer. I am an Ecology professor and wanted to find a way to improve the habitat of our native pollinators as so many of their populations are declining.
Design a Pollinator Garden with this free garden design tool! Drag and drop mini-illustrations of native plants into your own garden design . Includes resource pages to help beginners choose plants.
PDF Native Plant Pollinator Garden Templates
Choose native species over cultivars when possible. Plant densely, using native groundcovers as "green mulch," leaving some bare soil for the 70 percent of native bees that nest in the ground. Plant in drifts of 3 or more plants to be noticed by pollinators .
A good pollinator garden depends on picking the right plants and arranging them for year-round support. Use a mix of nectar-rich flowers — perennials, annuals, and even flowering trees and shrubs.