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Landscape planting featuring native plants, trees and grasses at the Kerr Center designed to attract pollinators.
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Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Poteau, OK
Landscaping for Pollinators
Landscaping for Pollinators
Kerr Center off ice landscape
Establish a low-maintenance, drought tolerant, attractive landscape using native plants that will attract native pollinators
Survey native plants on the Kerr Ranch
Research native plants and pollinators and plants
Experiment with gathering and starting plants from seed
Experiment with transplants
Design landscape elements
Plant landscape
Kerr Center Office Landscape Project
Use landscape as an outdoor classroom to educate visitors about native plants and pollinators
Plants labeledField days
Photo-document landscape and post info and photos online
Create fact sheets, reports and other educational resources for use by farmers, ranchers, ag educators and landowners
Educational Outreach
Native Plant Selection
A few questions to ask:
What grows well in my area?
Which plants will attract the pollinators I want?
Can I create a landscape that will attract pollinators throughout the growing season?
Which plants look attractive in a landscape planting?
Steps to Establishing a Native Landscape
Kerr Center’s office landscape 2011-15
David Redhage
planned the
native landscape
2011-2012: Seeds collected from around the ranch
Sunflowers
Some success with seeds
David Redhagewith Giant Coneflower
Spring 2013 Transplants in Greenhouse
Transplants
purchased
from
Bustami
Plant Farm,
Stillwater,
OK
Golden indigo
Barbara’s button
Giant coneflower
Illinois Bundleflower
Transplants for office landscape
Frog Fruit
Butterfly Milkweed
A look at the Kerr Center’s new office landscape2013-14
Butterfly milkweed2013
2014
Purple Prairie Clover
2013
2014
Frog fruit
2013
Frogfruit
2014
Slender Mountain Mint
2013
2014
Illinois Bundleflower 2013
2014
Maximilian’s Sunflower
June 2013
Maximilian’s Sunflower
October 2013
2014
2013, spring
Narrow-leaf sunflowerFall 2013
2013
Giant Coneflower
2014, summer
Switch grass (variety “Dust Devil”)
2014
American Smoketree
2014
Sweet Bay Magnolia 2013
2014
Buffalo grass
Osage Orange wood “rounds” add decorative element”
For more information on Kerr Center’s Pollinator ProjectContact David Redhage
Project Manager [email protected]
This material is based upon work supported by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under number 69-7335-1-21Any opinions, fi ndings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily refl ect the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Copyright ©2014. All rights reserved.
