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A Hortus garden · B3K 4T8, Canada area

heaset's garden

Already a home for the Chimney Swift and 1 other species at risk

7 native plants in the B3K 4T8, Canada area.

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FeaturedSupports a species at risk

Scarlet Beebalm

Monarda didyma

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What this garden supports in July

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Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
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Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
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Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus

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Drawn to Yarrow

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Eastern Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa virginica

Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm

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Leafcutter Bee

Megachile rotundata

Drawn to Yarrow

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Monarch Butterfly

Danaus plexippus

Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm

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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio glaucus

Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm

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Black Swallowtail

Papilio polyxenes

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 heaset planted these, these named species have a place here.

Chimney SwiftThreatenedBird
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
Yellow-banded Bumble BeeSpecial concernBee
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

At a glance

71%
support pollinators
43%
feed birds
71%
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 3 of the 7 months of the growing season.

In bloom Bloom gap Dormant season

Growing here

7 species

Wildflowers · 6

Supports a species at risk

More plants · 1

Garlic

Allium sativum