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A Hortus garden · B3N 1B8, Canada area
Already a home for the Chimney Swift and 1 other species at risk
4 native plants in the B3N 1B8, Canada area.
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🐝Eastern Carpenter Bee
Map yours free and see who it brings back.
Start your own gardenXylocopa virginica
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🦋Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🦋Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🦋Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🦋Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🦋Cabbage White
Pieris rapae
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because brittN planted these, these named species have a place here.
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
A once-common bumble bee in decline. Beebalm and columbine are among its favourites.
Photos: Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain
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 3 of the 7 months of the growing season.
