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How to Create a Garden for Pollinators
A step-by-step guide to transforming your yard into a thriving habitat for bees and butterflies
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With climate change accelerating and biodiversity declining, it's easy to feel powerless. However, just beyond your doorstep lies an opportunity to make a real difference -- your yard.
Even a small patch of native habitat can provide food and shelter for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators while helping you reconnect with nature.
To help you get started, we spoke with two experts -- Judy Cardin, an educator with the Wisconsin Bumble Bee Brigade, and Heather Holm, a pollinator conservationist and award-winning
author.
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1. Start small
Creating a pollinator garden doesn't require tearing up your entire yard. A five-by-five-foot space is enough to make a difference -- and easy to manage for a beginner. When choosing
a site, look for areas that are easy to convert, such as foundation beds, fence lines, or even a single strip of lawn.
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2. Pick the plants
Focus on species that are native to your region and suited to your site's light and soil conditions -- whether it's clay, sand, or loam. "You're going to have much better success if
you're matching the plants that you buy to suit those conditions," says Holm​. Aim for a mix that bloom from spring through fall to support pollinators throughout the growing season.
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3. Plant densely
In nature, plants grow close together -- and the plants in your pollinator garden should too. Dense planting helps shade out weeds, keeps soil moist, and builds a resilient plant community.
4. Skip the sprays
Pesticides -- including herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and rodenticides -- harm pollinators. That includes mosquito sprays, which can kill pollinators along with mosquitoes! The
good news? Native plants don't need sprays.
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About the Author: Anne Readel is a photographer, writer, and lawyer with a Ph.D. in conservation biology. Her work has been published by the New York Times, Audubon, and Better Homes
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