Planting for Pollinators
Many native plants act as a food source for butterflies. A butterfly garden contains food plants for butterfly caterpillars and nectar plants for the adult butterflies. Tangles of roots, logs, and stumps create cavity areas for pupating caterpillars.
View/download a PDF of wildflowers for pollinators – a resource to aid you in selecting species for your site.
You may want to search through out wildflower inventory database for more information on available wildflowers.
Pollinator Garden Packs
Mix & Match

Species available for this pack prefer full sun as do most pollinators.
It is best to grow them in a well-drained area.
Most are drought tolerant and require no special attention.
Each plant requires about 1 square foot in the garden, an area 5ft x 6 ft is all that is required for this mini oasis for bees and butterflies.
A little mulch between plants will help to keep weeds down and moisture in.
Mix & Match Pollinator Packs are 18 plants for $50.00 + HST
- Butterfly milkweed
- Wild bergamot
- Nodding onion
- Black-eyed susan
- Hoary vervain
- Wild lupine
- Anise hyssop
- Pale corydalis
- Royal catchfly
- Missouri primrose
- Harebell
- Branched coneflower
- Lance-leaved coreopsis
- Dense blazing star
- Gray-head coneflower
- Wild columbine
- Swamp milkweed
- New england aster
- Milk vetch
- Branched coneflower
- Sundrops
- Prairie Buttercup
- Obedient Plant
- Mistflower
- Hairy Penstemon
- Blanket Flower
- Rough Blazing Star
- Purple coneflower
- Blue-eyed grass
- Prairie coneflower
- Bee balm
- Prairie clover
- Swamp milkweed
- Purple coneflower
- Purple coneflower
- Stiff goldenrod
- Foxglove penstemon
- Common milkweed
- Monarch caterpillar / Common milkweed
- Blue false indigo
- Little Bluestem
- Pale echinacea
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