Celebrate National Lawn Care Month by replacing some of your lawn with pollinator-friendly plants.
In her new Holy Writ , Pollinator Friendly Gardening , award - winning garden author Rhonda Fleming Hayes states the demand for vegetable gardeners to plant more flowers to attract bees , butterfly , and other pollinators to their garden .
“ Without pollinator , a vegetable garden is n’t potential . ”
Gardeners need pollinator to fertilize flower to do fruit for the most fat garden possible . Even if you already plant plenty of prime , there ’s always room for more .
April is National Lawn Care Month and a in force way to celebrate is to take up some of the turf and replace it with flowering plants that attract pollinator . Pollinator Friendly Gardening(Voyageur Press , 2015 ) provides the inspiration and ideas for reducing , replacing and rethinking the lawn .
“ For gardeners always looking for more home to engraft , they require to take care no further than their lawns , ” Rhonda writes . “ It ’s easy to chip aside at the sod , little by trivial expanding your flower bed . Or go about it more consistently and consider widening all the bed by a foot or two , or more . ”
Gardeners can plant flowering lawn substitutes , like miniclover , cheddar pinko , creep red thyme , white stonecrop or decorative strawberry .
For more bang for the pollinator - friendly horticulture buck , gardener can replace a chunk of the lawn country with anew garden bedthat ’s sate with flower , fruits , herbs and vegetables .
It ’s obvious Rhonda has expend clock time think about what would be most useful for a nurseryman when it arrive to planting for pollinators . Her book is fill with helpful plant life lists for the specific annuals , perennials and landscape plants that attract bee , butterflies , and hummingbirds . Each listing is categorized by pollinator to make it easier for gardeners to bump the best plants to meet their pollinators ’ needs .
Special projection , like creating a butterfly eating station or building a bee abode , change state enquiry into world for gardener . The list of Citizen Science Projects provides chance for gardeners to collect and share valuable data about pollinator behavior .
In addition to the industrial plant tilt , the book includes planting tips , fun facts and sixth sense from other experts . Rhonda ’s Word is a must - have for gardeners who want to help better the quality of life sentence for pollinator , and in turn , help their own gardening effort as well .
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