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Creating a Bee Garden Janet B. Carson Extension Horticulture Specialist

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Page 1: Creating a Bee Garden - uaex.edu friendly... · pollination adequate pollination increases the quantity and qualityof fruit and seed production some plants are self‐pollinating

Creating a Bee GardenJanet B. Carson

Extension Horticulture Specialist

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A bee‐friendly landscape

• shelters and feeds native bees

• helps support honey bees• ensures good pollination of 

your vegetables and fruits• provides season‐long 

beauty, diversity, and interest

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Inviting?

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Diversity is Key!

• In addition to plants:– Provide Shelter– Habitat– Use pesticides with caution.

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pollination

adequate pollination increases the quantityand quality of fruit and seed production

some plants are self‐pollinating Many plants require cross‐pollination

pollinatoranimal that carries pollen from one flower to another

pollinizera plant that produces viable and compatible pollen

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encourage native pollinators

maintain bee‐friendly spaces native plants attract native bees avoid showy highly‐bred varieties little/no odor = little/no nectar anthers replaced by petals = no pollen

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plant large patches of the same flowers constant succession of blooms will keep pollinators returning to the garden mix of flower shapes and sizes bee colors: blue, purple, yellow

encourage native pollinators

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Glossy Abelia – Abelia sp.

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Butterfly Weed – Aesclepias tuberosa

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Milkweed – Aesclepias sp.

Swamp milkweed

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Agastache ‐ Hyssop

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Chives ‐ AlliumsAllium tuberosum

Allium schoenoprasum

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Columbine – Aquilegia sp.

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Aruncus – Goats Beard

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Drummond AsterAster drummondii

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False Indigo ‐ Baptisia sp.

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Basil

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Borage ‐ Borago officinalis

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Brunnera

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Butterfly BushBuddlea sp.

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Caryopteris

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Basket FlowerCentaurea americana

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Batcherlor’s Buttons –Centaurea cyanus

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Buttonbush –Cephalanthus occidentalis

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Redbud – Cercis sp.

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Summersweet – Clethra alnifolia

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Coreopsis

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Purple coneflower ‐ Echinacea sp. 

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Sea Holly Eringium planum

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Hardy AgeratumEupatorium coelestinum

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Joe Pye Weed – ‘Little Joe’Eutrochium purpureum

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Fennel

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Carolina jasmineGelsemium sempervirens

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Hardy Geranium ‐Geranium sp. 

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Sneezeweed – Helenium sp.

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Sunflowers ‐ Helianthus sp.

Sawtooth Sunflower

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Hellebores

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Holly – Ilex genus

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Jewelweed ‐ Impatiens capensis

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Lavender – Lavendula sp.

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Cardinal Flower Lobelia –Lobelia cardinalis

Rose Beacon

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Mahonia

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Bee Balm ‐ Monarda sp. 

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Catmint – Nepeta sp.

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Beardstongue – Penstemon sp.

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Pickerel Weed ‐Pontederia cordata

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Rudbeckia – Black‐eyed Susan

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Salvia

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Elderberry‐ Sambucus

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Sedum

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GoldenrodSolidago sp.

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ComfreySymphytum officinale

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Veronica ‐ Speedwell

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Vetch

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Chaste Tree ‐ Vitex agnus‐castus

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Water Source

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Habitat

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Be Bee Friendly!