What this garden supports in July
In season now
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to New England Aster, Dense Blazing-Star
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Bloodroot, Canada Anemone
🐝Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Drawn to Lance-Leaved Tickseed, Golden Alexanders
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because patplantperson 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.
Rusty-patched Bumble BeeEndangeredBeeOnce common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble BeeEndangeredBeeThe bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.
At a glance
- 70%
support pollinators
- 57%
feed birds
- 61%
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 7 of the 7 months of the growing season.
