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A Hortus garden · M4J 2A2, Canada area
Already a home for the Monarch Butterfly and 15 other species at risk
32 native plants in the M4J 2A2, Canada area.
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm, Common Milkweed +1 more
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm, Bloodroot
🐝Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Map yours free and see who it brings back.
Start your own gardenDrawn to Black-Eyed Susan, Golden Alexanders
🐝Eastern Carpenter Bee
Xylocopa virginica
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🐝Leafcutter Bee
Megachile rotundata
Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan, Heart-Leaved Aster
🦋Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Drawn to Common Milkweed, New England Aster +1 more
🦋Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
🦋Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
Drawn to Golden Alexanders, Scarlet Beebalm +1 more
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because claire planted these, these named species have a place here.
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 grassland bird losing its grasslands. Native bunchgrasses bring back the insects and cover it needs.
A bubbling song of summer meadows, now threatened. Native grasses rebuild the habitat it raises its young in.
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
It perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
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.
A bright yellow warbler in decline. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it feeds to its young.
A once-common bumble bee in decline. Beebalm and columbine are among its favourites.
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.
Its caterpillars can grow up on almost nothing but spicebush. Plant the shrub and you'll likely meet them.
Photos: 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 Ken Thomas, public domain · Photo by Paul Engel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Mike's Birds, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
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 7 of the 7 months of the growing season.
