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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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How To Grow a Pollinator Garden: A Step-by-Step Plan for Choosing Nectar Plants and Blooming Layers That Draw Bees and Butterflies All Season

How To Grow a Pollinator Garden: A Step-by-Step Plan for Choosing Nectar Plants and Blooming Layers That Draw Bees and Butterflies All Season

Nguyen, Jesse

Paperback

Crafts GeneralFlowersGeneral Gardening

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ISBN13: 9798191000732
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.23 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Four bloom layers. Twelve featured plants, three to a layer. Six checks every candidate plant has to pass before it earns a spot in the bed. One season-long feeding system, not another list of pretty flowers bought on a single bright Saturday at the garden center on impulse, then quietly left to fade and flop by August.

This book builds a pollinator garden the way bees and butterflies actually experience it, one overlapping bloom window at a time, so a bed that peaks once in July and sits empty the rest of the year never happens in the first place. Every plant earns its spot through a six-point test grounded in real flower biology, never through whatever a nursery tag or a marketing label happens to claim on the front of the pot at the nursery bench.

Twelve Plants, Four Seasons

  • Match sun, soil, and hardiness zone to a candidate plant before it ever reaches your cart or your seed order this year
  • Build a spring layer that feeds a hungry queen bumblebee before her fat reserves from last autumn run out completely
  • Close the June gap with bee balm, coneflower, and foxglove beardtongue blooming in overlapping succession together
  • Plant milkweed correctly so monarch caterpillars have a true host plant to eat, not just another nectar stop nearby
  • Carry nectar past the first frost with New England aster, goldenrod, and autumn stonecrop still holding bloom for weeks
  • Read a nursery tag for real bloom timing instead of trusting a greenhouse-forced estimate from a distant climate zone
  • Space every drift by each plant's own mature spread so a forager finds a real meal in one stop, not a scavenger hunt across a bare bed

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