What this garden supports in July
In season now
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🐝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 cbduffy 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.
Eastern MeadowlarkThreatenedBirdA grassland bird losing its grasslands. Native bunchgrasses bring back the insects and cover it needs.
BobolinkThreatenedBirdA bubbling song of summer meadows, now threatened. Native grasses rebuild the habitat it raises its young in.
At a glance
- 40%
support pollinators
- 40%
feed birds
- 30%
host caterpillars
Categories overlap. A single species often supports pollinators, birds, and caterpillars at once.
This garden already supports 8 different species at risk, a real corridor stop.
Blooming through the year
Something is in bloom in 3 of the 7 months of the growing season.
