Discover the best flowers, plants, and garden designs to attract hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. Create a thriving pollinator garden with native plants.
Choosing the right flowers for butterflies is the single biggest decision you’ll make when designing a garden that actually attracts them — not just one or two stragglers in July, but a steady, fluttering crowd from spring through the first hard frost. Most gardening articles you’ll read on this topic get it about half right. … Read more
Choosing the right plants for hummingbirds is less about picking the prettiest flower at the garden center and more about understanding where you live, which hummingbird species pass through your yard, and how different layers of the landscape work together to feed and shelter these tiny travelers. A Ruby-throated Hummingbird in Ohio has very different … Read more
A pollinator garden is one of the most impactful things you can plant in your yard — and one of the easiest to get wrong. Every spring, well-meaning gardeners grab a flat of petunias from the big-box store, stick them in a row along the fence, and wonder why the butterflies never show up. The … Read more
You planted colorful flowers, hung a feeder, and waited — but no hummingbirds showed up. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. The #1 mistake gardeners make is choosing the wrong flowers. Hummingbirds don’t visit just any bloom. They need tubular, nectar-rich flowers in specific colors, and they rely on a continuous supply from spring … Read more
