11 MUST Grow Pollinator Garden Plants 🐝
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In this video, I planted a pollinator strip at the edge of my front yard edible garden as an attractant and have already noticed increased activity in the veggie garden.
00:00 – Intro
00:26 – Sponsor
01:13 – General Intro
02:15 – Blue Lobelia
02:50 – Echinacea
03:33 – Heliotrope
04:19 – Milkweed
05:17 – Alyssum
05:41 – Agastache
06:29 – Yarrow
06:53 – Daisy
07:23 – Pentas
08:02 – Salvia
08:32 – Delphinium
09:28 – Outro
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Let’s not call it milkweed anymore, it’s « Monarch delight » suggested by Dr Doug Tallamy🌺❤️🙏🏻
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My wife and I love this video we are trying to create a pollinator friendly garden and this gives us great ideas
Just a warning that heliotrope could kill your pet, so be careful planting if you’ve got a garden nibbler.
I’m sure I’ve asked, but I’d like an update on this specific bed to see how everything was able to coexist. I’m currently struggling with salvia’s and lantanas.
Great info!!! 🌻🎶🐝🦋🌷
Of the bunch, the agastache is the toppest sheet for pollinators, especially the North American native _foeniculum_ variety.
It grows very easily, non-spreading (although self-seeds thus easily controlled), very popular with pollinators, edible, smells good, long monthly flowering period, etc…
I must have 20+ growing in soil and pots in my garden right now.
A common trick with it is to pinch it 2-3 times before August-September to control its height but you’ll have much more flower spikes. I personally counted 50+ from pinching one plant until Labor Day! 🎊
It doesn’t last long with 2-4 years each but the amount of seeds it produces, you’ll have agastaches for a lifetime! Seriously! So much it can even be grown like an annual!
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How close do these have to be to our garden? I have a vacant bed around the corner from our raised beds that we are planning to install…. I’m a Newbie…
1. Blue lobelia
2. Echinacea
3. Heliotrope
4. Milkweed
5. Alyssum
6. Agastache
7. Yarrow
8. Daisy
9. Pentas
10. Salvia
11. Delphinium
I need u
Milkweed and foxglove are poisonous so please keep it away from children and pets ❤
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Bruh. The first 5 second made my day
Just lying around hanging out with your plants.
Bigger than my head 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nice!
I so wish these could grow in Montana. I love the video, but maybe next time, show what zones these will grow in. Not everyone is in zone 9-11 🙂
Haven’t watch the video. Natives, natives and more natives.
The last thing I want to attract to my house is carpenter bees.
You came out of no where!
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Good stuff Kevin! I only have a few of these ready to plant and it looks like I may need to add some of these later this year or next year 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
If you have room, trees are great & give a lot more than herbal. As always great video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Northern_American_nectar_sources_for_honey_bees#Flowers%2C_crops%2C_herbs%2C_and_grasses
Love how both the subscribers you picked were smoking hot. You sly dog……
Awesome!
I need some help with Nasturtiums. I planted seeds in a container and now i have 3 plants in eavh container. Should i remove 2 or leave all 3
Tubular??? The word you looking for is cylindrical. I still love the channel lol
Mistflower is like crack to Monarch and Queen Butterflies. They’ll literally swarm it. Plant it next to your Milkweed for full effect. They mate by the Mistflower and lay eggs on the Milkweed. MW is the host plant for both Butterflies. Note: be sure to get Mistflower and Milkweed native to your area. 🦋
I live in zone 3 and delphiniums grow great here. I have 3 and my oldest plant is 5-6 ft tall
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Adding cupia to this list!!!!! #1 hummer attracter.
Alyssum edible?
Would you guys mind doing a video on your Hummingbird Haven Flower Mix? I’d love to see how best to sow the packet, care, & what the flowers look like.
It’s worth noting that heliotrope is poisonous to animals. It has killed dogs so people with pets need to be careful where the plant these
Where will he pop up from? Where is he? 😊Nice touch to your videos!
Thanks for sharing! I’m from zone 3 and excited to try growing some delphiniums, I’ve started some from seed a few months back
Greetings from Calgary, Alberta, Canada from zone 3 and a bit of 4. Delphiniums are in abundance up here- if you are not on a windy. Ridge, hill.
That’s not even the only problem with tropical milkweed. Because of how long they stay, higher amounts of the OE parasite get harbored on the plants, infecting a lot of butterflies including healthy ones migrating. The use of these invasives are making OE a much bigger problem than it used to be.
Basil herb feeds bees also. Thai and African basils.
Hello anyone! Why aren’t marigolds recommended for pollinator gardens?
Some of the wasps mentioned in this video….will they sting? I’m super allergic to bee stings so I’m wondering how I can avoid getting stung if I plant these around my vegetables.
I was totally expecting Kevin to pop up from behind that very short flower bed, like maybe with a Gilly suit on. 😂
Ugh. I am going to need an EPIC milkweed garden for the 16 Monarch rearing kits I just received! I have common milkweed in my wild meadow and narrow-leaved swamp milkweed in my front flowerbed with Joe Pye, Coneflower and Aster.
Can delphinium be over summered indoors or greenhouses?
That intro..lol
What zone do you grow in?
Blood red. Liked this video.
Eleven pollinators – cone flower delphinium tubular allisum blue lobilia mounds. Echinacea. Heliotrope. Milkweed for monarchs. Alyssum. Agasache. Yarrow. Daisy. Pentas. Salvia for Hummingbirds.
Your correct with the Pentis color observation.
Thanks we have and are learning so much from you ! Keep growing ! 😊