What this garden supports in July
In season now
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to New England Aster
🐝Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan, Yarrow +1 more
🐝Leafcutter Bee
Megachile rotundata
Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan, Yarrow
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because wild_nettle planted these, these named species have a place here.
- Monarch ButterflyEndangeredButterfly
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Little Brown BatEndangeredBatDisease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
Barn SwallowThreatenedBirdA bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
At a glance
- 62%
support pollinators
- 55%
feed birds
- 62%
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.
