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A Hortus garden · L4J 2P3, Canada area

rudbeckia's garden

Already a home for the Monarch Butterfly and 8 other species at risk

7 native plants in the L4J 2P3, Canada area.

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FeaturedSupports a species at risk

Black-Eyed Susan

Rudbeckia hirta

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What this garden supports in July

In season now

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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 Black-Eyed Susan

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Eastern Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa virginica

Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm

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Leafcutter Bee

Megachile rotundata

Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan, Heart-Leaved Aster

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

Mottled DuskywingEndangeredButterfly
This endangered butterfly can only raise its young on New Jersey Tea. Plant the shrub, save the butterfly.
Monarch ButterflyEndangeredButterfly
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Eastern MeadowlarkThreatenedBird
A grassland bird losing its grasslands. Native bunchgrasses bring back the insects and cover it needs.
Chimney SwiftThreatenedBird
It catches every meal on the wing. Native plants sustain the insects it lives on.
BobolinkThreatenedBird
A bubbling song of summer meadows, now threatened. Native grasses rebuild the habitat it raises its young in.
Olive-sided FlycatcherThreatenedBird
It perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.
Yellow-banded Bumble BeeSpecial concernBee
A once-common bumble bee in decline. Beebalm and columbine are among its favourites.
Eastern Wood-PeweeSpecial concernBird
Its slow 'pee-a-wee' call is heard less each year. It needs the flying insects native plants support.
Transverse Lady BeetleSpecial concernBeetle
Our native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.

Photos: Photo by Benny Mazur, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Derek Ramsey, GFDL 1.2 · Photo by Ken Thomas, public domain · Photo by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Paul Engel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Mike's Birds, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain · Photo by Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0

At a glance

100%
support pollinators
71%
feed birds
100%
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 6 of the 7 months of the growing season.

In bloom Bloom gap Dormant season

Growing here

7 species

rudbeckia's garden

What this garden supports in July

Every native garden is a stepping stone in the corridor.

At a glance

Blooming through the year

Growing here

Shrubs · 1

Wildflowers · 5

Grasses, sedges, and rushes · 1