The Green Team encourages adding native trees, shrubs, and flowers to support pollinators and avoid decline of caterpillars and song birds.
Date
January 11, 2023
Credits
FROM THE GREEN CORNER
Date
January 11, 2023
Credits
FROM THE GREEN CORNER
Are those tempting flower and seed catalogs beginning to arrive at your home? Consider a few things before you plan additions to your landscape, flower bed, or outdoor containers. The Green Team encourages you to add only native trees, shrubs, and flowers. Natives support pollinators, such as butterflies, bees and birds, and many ornamental plants provide no food or shelter to pollinators. The life cycle of butterflies and moths include caterpillars which are the primary food source for baby birds. The decline in caterpillar population is the primary reason for the decline in song birds here. (Most ornamental hybrids, such as roses, are not harmful; they are simply inert to pollinators.).
Here is a local symposium for in-depth knowledge of planning pollinator gardens.
Contact Ruth Fugee (ruth.fugee@gmail.com) or Elaine Dubin (elaine.dubin@gmail.com) if you want to ride with us.
If you wish to just plug in natives into your current plantings, here is a summary resource:
https://www.plantnovanatives.org/
73 Culpeper St, Warrenton, VA 20186
(540) 347-4342
