What this garden supports in July
In season now
πCommon Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
πTwo-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
πSweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
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A Hortus garden Β· B2N 1J1, Canada area
Already a home for the Monarch Butterfly and 7 other species at risk
7 native plants in the B2N 1J1, Canada area.
πCommon Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
πTwo-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
πSweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Map yours free and see who it brings back.
Start your own gardenDrawn to Black-Eyed Susan
πEastern Carpenter Bee
Xylocopa virginica
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
πLeafcutter Bee
Megachile rotundata
Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan
π¦Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
π¦Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
π¦Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and whatβs active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because paul 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.

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 perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.

A once-common bumble bee in decline. Beebalm and columbine are among its favourites.

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.
Photos: Photo by Derek Ramsey, GFDL 1.2 Β· Photo by Ken Thomas, public domain Β· Photo by Paul Engel, CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· Photo by Mike's Birds, CC BY-SA 2.0 Β· Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 Β· Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain Β· Photo by Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 2.0 Β· Photo by Hectonichus, 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 5 of the 7 months of the growing season.