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A Hortus garden · L9C 3R9, Canada area
Already a home for the Monarch Butterfly and 16 other species at risk
22 native plants in the L9C 3R9, Canada area.
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Common Milkweed, Wild Bergamot +1 more
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Wild Bergamot, Canada Anemone
🐝Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Map yours free and see who it brings back.
Start your own gardenDrawn to Golden Alexanders
🦋Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Drawn to Common Milkweed, Dense Blazing-Star
🦋Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucus
Drawn to Dense Blazing-Star
🦋Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
Drawn to Golden Alexanders, Dense Blazing-Star
🦋Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
Drawn to Common Milkweed
🌺Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
Drawn to Michigan Lily
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because LazyPlanter planted these, these named species have a place here.
This endangered butterfly can only raise its young on New Jersey Tea. Plant the shrub, save the butterfly.
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
The bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.
Disease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
It feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.
It perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.
A grassland bird losing its grasslands. Native bunchgrasses bring back the insects and cover it needs.
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Its dusk call is going quiet. It hunts the night-flying moths that evening-primrose and milkweed raise.
Named for its haunting call, now seldom heard. It depends on the large moths native plants raise.
Its flute-like song is fading from our woods. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it needs to feed its chicks.
A bright yellow warbler in decline. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it feeds to its young.
It needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Its slow 'pee-a-wee' call is heard less each year. It needs the flying insects native plants support.
Our native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.
It raises its young only on plants in the carrot family. Golden Alexanders is its native one.
One of our most beautiful moths raises its young on native trees like birch and serviceberry.
Photos: Photo by Benny Mazur, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Derek Ramsey, GFDL 1.2 · Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain · Photo by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS, public domain · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by John, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Mike's Birds, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Ken Thomas, public domain · Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Greg Schechter, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dominic Sherony, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Shawn Hanrahan, CC BY-SA 2.5
support pollinators
feed birds
host caterpillars
Categories overlap. A single species often supports pollinators, birds, and caterpillars at once.
More than half the plants here are larval hosts, raising the caterpillars that baby songbirds depend on.
Something is in bloom in 6 of the 7 months of the growing season.
