Dream Lands Design
  • Home Improvement
    • DIY
    • Remodeling
    • Woodworking
    • Accessories
    • Home Design
      • Furniture
      • Organize
      • Tips
      • Decor
        • Interior
        • Exterior
  • Design Ideas
    • Bathroom
    • Bedroom
    • Dining Room
    • Living Room
    • Kitchen
  • Gardening
    • Backyard
    • Front Yard
    • Landscaping
  • Home Improvement
    • DIY
    • Remodeling
    • Woodworking
    • Accessories
    • Home Design
      • Furniture
      • Organize
      • Tips
      • Decor
        • Interior
        • Exterior
  • Design Ideas
    • Bathroom
    • Bedroom
    • Dining Room
    • Living Room
    • Kitchen
  • Gardening
    • Backyard
    • Front Yard
    • Landscaping

Categories

  • Accessories
  • Backyard
  • Bathroom
  • Beauty
  • Bedroom
  • Cars
  • Decor
  • Design Ideas
  • Dining Room
  • DIY
  • Entertaining
  • Exterior
  • Finance
  • Front Yard
  • Furniture
  • Gardening
  • Green Living
  • Home Design
  • Home Improvement
  • Interior
  • Kitchen
  • Landscaping
  • Lifestyle
  • Living
  • Living Room
  • Organize
  • Photography
  • Real Estate
  • Remodeling
  • Tips
  • Uncategorized
  • Wall Improvement
  • Woodworking

Archives

  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Disclosure
  • Sitemap
  • Contact Us
29K
98K
0
Dream Lands Design
  • Home Improvement
    • DIY
    • Remodeling
    • Woodworking
    • Accessories
    • Home Design
      • Furniture
      • Organize
      • Tips
      • Decor
        • Interior
        • Exterior
  • Design Ideas
    • Bathroom
    • Bedroom
    • Dining Room
    • Living Room
    • Kitchen
  • Gardening
    • Backyard
    • Front Yard
    • Landscaping
featured image - Tiny Garden Solutions for Bees and Butterflies
You're here: Home Gardening Tiny Garden Solutions for Bees and Butterflies

Tiny Garden Solutions for Bees and Butterflies

  • Perla Irish
  • November 23, 2021
Total
0
Shares
0
0
0
0
0

Gardens are an amazing way to beautify your home while helping the environment and Mother Nature in general. Specifically, gardens are a great way to advance the cause of preserving the existence of key pollinators like butterflies and bees.

With the loss of flower-rich habitats dating as far back as the 1930s, pollinators have had a difficult time ensuring that they survive.

However, an act as simple as planting a single seed that would grow and eventually flower could make all the difference for a bee or a butterfly.

image - Tiny Garden Solutions for Bees and Butterflies
Tiny Garden Solutions for Bees and Butterflies

Small plants basically have a very major role to play in this campaign and are perhaps the most important after all.

For instance, the Mexican fleabane (Erigeron karvinskianus) would gladly creep into walls and the creeping thyme (Thymus serpyllum) is notable for converting the most unpalatable surfaces into a haven for butterflies and bees.

Selecting Pollinator Plants

The choice of plants typically varies for pollinators as they have various needs and preferences. The type of plants that you have in your garden typically determines whether or not you would find some particular pollinators there.

For instance, butterflies and hummingbirds constantly lookout for only nectar, however, they still transfer pollen while feeding. Bees, on the other hand, constantly seek both nectar and pollen.

To ensure that all parties are taken care of, you can opt for flowers that would meet both the needs of bees and butterflies. Plants such as Monarda, otherwise known as bee balm, are a great source of nectar.

Various other plants such as coneflowers, Asters, Black-eyed Susans, and simians which have simple sunflower-like blooms are known to cover both the nectar and pollen base. Herbs known for their flowers such as lavender can be included as well.


Read Also:

  • 4 Unique Garden Decor Styles for Your Backyard Renovation
  • 7 Amazing Tips to Enhance Your Garden and Backyard

Furthermore, the shapes and colors of flowers matter a great deal to pollinators. Bees, for instance, prefer blooms that are white blue, and yellow.

If you’re a beekeeper, planting plants with those bloom colors is a great idea. Keeping bees, provided you have got the right equipment for beekeeping benefits both humans and the environment.

For butterflies, yellow, red, and purple are the colors that they are just drawn to. Other pollinators such as birds prefer colors like red, white, and orange.

Also, bees and butterflies prefer flat, open blooms that come with big petals for their short nectar tubes and ease of landing.

The main birds that pollinate such as hummingbirds prefer tubular, trumpet-shaped blooms like lobelia flowers and honeysuckle. These birds can easily reach into these plants with their long beaks.

Why is Selecting Specific Pollinator Plants So Important?

Essentially, native plants are very important to pollinators. Native insects sometimes have special relationships with specific native plants in their native regions, unlike honeybees that are from Europe.

While some pollinators would typically feed on any plant available, some others can only feed on native plants that they are very familiar with. And when these plants are absent for an extended period of time, they run the risk of going extinct.

One very practical example is that of the Monarch butterfly. Statistics show that the monarch butterfly has seen its population deplete up to 90% compared to its population in 1992.

And the reason is straightforward. The milkweed is indispensable to the monarch and statistics show that the milkweed plant population is down 90% as well.

Milkweed plants are the only source of food available to the monarch caterpillar. However, the rapid disappearance of these plants as a result of a loss of habitat is the major challenge that they face.

Their habitat loss can be attributed to the rampant spraying of weed killers on fields where they live and land development. Without Milkweed plants, monarch butterflies would eventually go extinct.

Therefore, if you’re looking to make the world a better place via your gardening, planting some milkweed plants is a great idea.

Similarly, there are other pollinators that require specific plants and this is why specifically selecting pollinator plants is essential.

Attracting and Keeping Pollinators

In order to attract and keep pollinators around, just having the right plants isn’t enough. Some other things factor in attracting pollinators and retaining them. Here are some of the most common elements that are necessary for this:

  • Providing shelters like birdhouses, butterfly boxes or insect boxes is a great idea. This ensures that cavity-nesting bees and other pollinators have a place to stay.
  • A source of drinking water. Bees and butterflies also need water. Providing a shallow saucer, a birdbath, or creating a mud puddle would provide sufficient water for them.
  • You could also provide seed feeders and nectar feeders to supplement what they get from garden plants.
  • You can litter pebbles or stones around for resting. Butterflies usually need warm and sunny pots to rest and regain their energy.
  • Providing gently flowing water or a bubbling fountain for bathing and removing sticky nectar is important too.

Making provision for these elements basically puts you on the path to providing a haven for pollinators and a home where they can stay.

Apart from preserving nature, aesthetics is just incredible. Also, you get to enjoy the wonderful smells and the atmosphere of a beautiful garden.

where to buy bee hives? Polystyrene beehives are a cost-effective, easy-to-maintain, and environmentally responsible solution to keep bees in a stable, energy-efficient setting.
Contact BuzzBee to shop selection of inexpensive beekeeping equipment online.
Total
0
Shares
Share 0
Tweet 0
Pin it 0
Share 0
Share 0
Related Topics
  • bees
  • garden
  • nectar
  • plants
  • tiny

Subscribe

Subscribe now to our newsletter

You May Also Like
featured image - Read This Before Replacing Your Oven Light Bulb
View Post

Read This Before Replacing Your Oven Light Bulb

  • January 31, 2023
Featured image - How to Deal with Overgrown Plants: 4 Options
View Post

How to Deal with Overgrown Plants: 4 Options

  • January 31, 2023
Featured image - The Typical Instances When You Will Need the Services of a Locksmith
View Post

The Typical Instances When You Will Need the Services of a Locksmith

  • January 31, 2023
Featured image - Best Tile for Commercial Spaces
View Post

Best Tile for Commercial Spaces

  • January 31, 2023
Featured image - A Designer’s Guide to Ottoman Styles
View Post

A Designer’s Guide to Ottoman Styles

  • January 31, 2023
featured image - 6 Tips for Using Informed Delivery with Direct Mail
View Post

6 Tips for Using Informed Delivery with Direct Mail

  • January 30, 2023
Featured image - Why Homeowners Should Monitor Water Quality
View Post

Why Homeowners Should Monitor Water Quality

  • January 30, 2023
featured image - 4 Electrical Problems Many Homeowners Experience
View Post

4 Electrical Problems Many Homeowners Experience

  • January 29, 2023
Dream Lands Design
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Disclosure
  • Sitemap
  • Contact Us

Input your search keywords and press Enter.

Add Dream Lands Design to your Homescreen!

Add