Pollinator Planting Guide Cards - by EcoregionDownload and print a copy of the card appropriate for your region by right clicking on the image and saving the card. California Pollinator Planting Card (2-sided) 
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Planting Guide for your native pollinator garden Use the arrangement below to have a continous garden - spring, summer, fall This card applies to: California This card includes an illustration of a 3'x6' garden bed with a mixture of nine pollinator-friendly plants. The flower bed is set up with flowers for spring, summer, and fall. Arrange plants shorter on outside of plot. Flowers include: crevice alumroot (Heuchera micrantha), buckbrush (Ceanothus cuneatus), yarrow (Achillea millefolium), Oregon grape (Berberis aquifolium var. aquifolium), creeping sage (Salvia sonomensis), rubber rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa), narrowleaf milkweed (Ascelpias fascicularis), mulefat (Baccharis salicifolia), California poppy (Eschsholizia californica). This card was produced by the following partners: North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, Million Pollinator Garden Challenge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institute, and Pollinator Partnership. Side 2: Follow these steps to create your beautiful native pollinator garden 1. Identify your garden spot: - Find a 3'x6' plot that gets 6+ hours of sun. - Have a larger area? Include more choices and clump the same species together. - Remove or smother existing lawn or vegetation. 2. Buy plants at a local native plant nursery, if possible. 3. Plant! - Arrange plants with different seasonal blooms in your plot. - Dig holes twice as large as each plant's pot. - Remove the plant from the pot, loosen the roots, place it in the hole, backfill, tamp soil, and water. - Mulch plot to depth <1 inch="" /> 4. Maintain your garden: - Water to keep moist throughout the first two weeks, then as needed or when plants droop. - Weed as needed. - Avoid using insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides. - Be patient - your garden may take a few years to fully establish and fill in! Add your garden: www.millionpollinatorgardens.org Your state’s native plant society can recommend additional locally appropriate native species. See North American Pollinator Protection Campaign Ecoregional Planting Guides for additional information: www.pollinator.org/guides Season - Spring Norhern California: buckbrush, California poppy, yarrow Southern California: buckbrush, California poppy, yarrow Season - Summer Northern California: crevice alumroot (coastal), pink alumroot (inland), narrow leaf milkweed, creeping sage Southern California: pink alumroot, narrow leaf milkweed, black sage Season - Fall Northern California: rubber rabbitbrush, mulefat, Oregon grape Southern California: California bush sunflower (coastal), brittlebrush (inland), chaparral broom (coastal), desert baccharis (inland), Oregon grape |
Last updated: June 7, 2022