Integrating Nature: Pollinator Plants For Bees and Butterflies

Beautiful and essential to ecosystem health, healthy pollinator populations need support all year round. The caterpillars of our beautiful native moths and butterflies require very specific native plants to survive and grow. Our native song birds rely on caterpillars other native insects to feed their young...even though species that switch to seed and berries later in the season. Adult bees and butterflies feed on nectar, and many of our native summer and flowers support them later in the season as they make new generations and migrate or get ready to hibernate. These amazing plants can be included in both wild, abundant, natural looking gardens, or integrated into more conventional looking landscapes, where meeting neighbour or more formal personal aesthetic styles are important. Design and planning lay the foundation for success.