What this garden supports in July
In season now
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm, Common Milkweed +2 more
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm, Wild Bergamot
🐝Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because JeccaS planted these, these named species have a place here.
Monarch ButterflyEndangeredButterflyA Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Rusty-patched Bumble BeeEndangeredBeeOnce common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble BeeEndangeredBeeThe bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.
At a glance
- 63%
support pollinators
- 56%
feed birds
- 44%
host caterpillars
Categories overlap. A single species often supports pollinators, birds, and caterpillars at once.
This garden already supports 16 different species at risk, a real corridor stop.
Blooming through the year
Something is in bloom in 6 of the 7 months of the growing season.
