What Dartmouth has planted
These are the gardens, plants, and species that Hortus members have logged in Dartmouth. Every count below is measured from what people actually planted, nothing estimated.
Species at risk these gardens support
The native plants growing across Dartmouth are within range of these species at risk. Each garden is a stepping stone that helps bring them back.
Monarch ButterflyEndangeredButterflyA 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.
When Dartmouth is in bloom
8 / 12 months with native blooms
- restJanuary: no local native blooms recorded
- restFebruary: no local native blooms recorded
- bloomMarch: native species in bloom
- bloomApril: native species in bloom
- bloomMay: native species in bloom
- bloomJune: native species in bloom
11 households have turned part of Dartmouth into habitat, without a single acre of new parkland. Every native plant is measured, mapped, and working for local wildlife right now.
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