Native Plants for Native Pollinators

 

 

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Native Plants

for the Pollinator Patch

were purchased from:

 

Nith River Native Plants

265 Wilmot-Easthope Rd

New Hamburg, ON, N3A 3S8

(519) 662-2529

Contact: Graham Buck

 

 

 

Native plants for the

1st phase of the Pollinator

Corridor were purchased

from:

 

Native Plants in Claremont

4965 Westney Rd.

Pickering, ON l1Y 1A2

905-649-8176

nativeplants.ca

 

 

Native Plant Websites

 

Finding native plants. This website gives names of native plant sources.

 

Ontario Wildflowers has plants sorted by several criteria including season of bloom

 

Planting Guide by Susan Chan. This site contains native and non-native plants that attract bees.

 

 

 

 

The Plants used in the Barrie Pollinator Patch

 

Choke Cherry – Prunus virginianum
New Jersey Tea- ceanothus americanus
Wild Strawberry- Fragaria vesca
Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta
Butterfly Weed – Asclepias tuberosa
Golden Alexanders – Zizia aurea
Culvers Root – Veronicastrum virginicum
Purple Coneflower – Echinacea pallida
Grey Goldenrod – Solidago nemoralis
New England Aster – aster novae-angliae
Joe-Pye-Weed – Eupatorium perfoliatum
Cup Plant – Silphium perfoliatum
Little Bluestem – Schizacryium scoparium
Switch Grass (Panicum virgatum)
Side-oats Grama – Bouteloua curtipendula

 

The Plants used for the 1st Phase of the Pollinator Corridor

 

Milkweed -- Asclepias syriaca

Golden Alexanders -- Zizia aurea

Culver's Root -- Veronicastrum virginicum

Green-headed Coneflowers -- Rudbeckia laciniata

New England Aster -- Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

Joe Pye Weed -- Eupatorium maculatum

Purple Coneflower -- Echinacea pallida

 

 

The Plants used for the 2015 Phase of the Pollinator Corridor

Milkweed -- Asclepias syriaca

Bee Balm -- Monarda didyma

Coreopsis -- Coreopsis lanceolata

Pale Coneflower -- Echinacea pallida

Ironweed -- Vernonia gigantea

Dense Blazing Star -- Liatris spicata

Black-Eyed Susan -- Rudbeckia hirta

Symphotricum laeve -- Smooth aster

Verbena stricta -- Hoary Vervain

Zizea aurea -- Golden Alexanders