What this garden supports in July
In season now
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Wild Bergamot, Boneset
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Wild Bergamot, Bloodroot +1 more
🐝Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan, Golden Alexanders +1 more
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because Sam 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.
Little Brown BatEndangeredBatDisease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
Eastern MeadowlarkThreatenedBirdA grassland bird losing its grasslands. Native bunchgrasses bring back the insects and cover it needs.
At a glance
- 69%
support pollinators
- 47%
feed birds
- 52%
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.
Blooming through the year
Something is in bloom in 7 of the 7 months of the growing season.
Growing here
85 speciesTrees · 1
Shrubs · 12
