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A Hortus garden · B2Z 1J3, Canada area
Already a home for the Barn Swallow and 2 other species at risk
47 native plants in the B2Z 1J3, Canada area.
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to New England Aster
🐝Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Drawn to Yarrow
🐝Eastern Carpenter Bee
Xylocopa virginica
Map yours free and see who it brings back.
Start your own gardenDrawn to Foxglove Beardtongue
🐝Leafcutter Bee
Megachile rotundata
Drawn to Yarrow
🦋Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Drawn to New England Aster
🦋Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
Drawn to New England Aster
🦋Painted Lady
Vanessa cardui
Drawn to New England Aster, Yarrow
🦋Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
Drawn to New England Aster
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because idigplants planted these, these named species have a place here.
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
It needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Our native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.
One of our most beautiful moths raises its young on native trees like birch and serviceberry.
Photos: Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Shawn Hanrahan, CC BY-SA 2.5
support pollinators
feed birds
host caterpillars
Categories overlap. A single species often supports pollinators, birds, and caterpillars at once.
This garden already supports 3 different species at risk, a real corridor stop.
Something is in bloom in 7 of the 7 months of the growing season.
Specialist host plant
