What this garden supports in July
In season now
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm, Wild Bergamot
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm, Wild Bergamot
🐝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 eastcoastcandice planted these, these named species have a place here.
Chimney SwiftThreatenedBirdIt catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Barn SwallowThreatenedBirdA bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
Bank SwallowThreatenedBirdIt feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.
At a glance
- 50%
support pollinators
- 67%
feed birds
- 67%
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 2 of the 7 months of the growing season.
