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.
You may want to search through our wildflower inventory database for more information on species we grow.
Please note that not all species are available in pollinator pack size, some may be sold out and others not yet ready. Contact us to confirm current availability of desired species.
Pollinator Packs
Mix & Match
Most of the species available for this pack prefer full sun as do most pollinators. We do have a small number of species available in pollinator pack for shade and for wet areas.
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.
18 Wildflowers and/or Grasses for $55 (1st year plants)
Mix & Match
Available starting in Mid-Late May
select species available
(or $3.50 each)
- 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-headed Coneflower
- Wild Columbine
- Swamp Milkweed
- New England Aster
- Canada Milk Vetch/Hoary Vervain
- Branched Coneflower
- Prairie 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
- Eastern Bluestar
- White Wood Aster
- Sullivant’s Milkweed
- Anise Hyssop
- Dense Blazing Star
- Ironweed
- Clearwing on Liatris spicata
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Woodland Strawberry
- Blue Vervain
- Prairie Smoke
- Hairy Beardtongue
- Pale Corydalis
- Michigan Lily
- Lance-leaved Coreopsis
- Wood Poppy (shade)
- Sky Blue Aster
- Spotted Beebalm (Monarda punctata)
- Blue Lobelia
- Golden Alexander
- Foxglove Penstemon
- Yarrow
- Cardinal flower
- Branched Coneflower
- Showy Tick-trefoil