Seven tips to help bring pollinators to your yard and community!

• Plant flowers and plants that pollinators love to stop for! It’s easy when you add some of these 21 new varieties highlighted above.
• It doesn’t matter the size your garden is from containers, hanging baskets to backyards, pollinators will love you for it!
• Plant for continuous bloom throughout the growing season from spring to fall.
• If possible, plant in clusters to create a “target’ for pollinators to find easily.
• Give your pollinators a home to stay in.  Install bee homes, leave some bare ground for nests, keep brush piles, and add caterpillar host plants.
• Eliminate the use of pesticides and insecticides in your garden
• Register your garden and Bee Counted at the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge.

Source: National Garden Bureau, ngb.org