Resources
Below are links to helpful sites related to pollinators and pollinator plants.
Pollinator Garden Reference Books
100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive $18.00
The first step toward protecting our pollinators is providing the flowers they need. This field guide describes 100 plants honeybees and native bees – as well as butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds – find most nutritious. Packed with range, growth habit and culture information, this book is a very helpful aid in selecting plants for your pollinator garden.
100 Plants to Feed the Monarch: Create a Healthy Habitat to Sustain North America’s Most Beloved Butterfly $18.00
This highly visual, at-a-glance guide shows how you can help restore habitat by planting the native wildflowers, shrubs, and trees that Monarchs depend upon for their survival. Thirty-one milkweed varieties among dozens of other nectar flowers are described. An invaluable resource for anyone who wants to make a positive contribution to the survival of the iconic Monarch and other butterflies
Gardening for Butterflies: How you Can Attract and Protect Beautiful Beneficial Insects $27.00
This very comprehensive resource introduces you to a variety of butterflies who need our help, and provides suggestions for native plants to attract them, habitat designs to help them thrive, and garden practices to accommodate all their life-stages. Join the effort to conserve butterflies and moths and learn proven strategies to welcome these extraordinary guests to your yard.
The Midwest Native Plant Primer: 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden $27.00
Do you want a garden that makes a real difference? Choose plants native to our region. The rewards will benefit you, your yard, and the environment. With proven advice ever home gardener can follow, this excellent sourcebook goes well beyond perennial wildflowers with descriptions of scores of trees, shrubs, groundcovers, ferns, grasses, and vines native to the Midwest that provide benefits to pollinators and other wildlife.
Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden (Revised/Updated 2nd Ed.) $16.00
Dealing with unwanted deer is frustrating and challenging for even the most patient of gardeners and homeowners. In this completely updated and revised version, the author shares the latest research on deer behavior and food preferences, as well as her hands-on experience in successfully combatting deer. From choosing the best fence, to using deterrents, and selecting the most deer-detested plants, this book helps you pull the welcome mat out from under backyard and garden invading deer.
50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs & Shrubs that Deer Don’t Eat $21.00
Illustrated with full-color photographs of the most deer-resistant plants available. This inspiring guide offers everything a deer-plagued plant lover needs to know. Provides information on 50 annuals, perennials, bulbs, ferns, grasses and shrubs with advice on how to grow them. Also includes dozens of deer-resistant companions and design tips to help you create a deer resistant garden.
Backyard Fruit Production (9th Revised Edition) $17.00
This beautifully illustrated, easily readable, and comprehensive resource provides practical guidance taking the home orchardist step-by-step from planting to harvesting. Covers orchard and fruiting plant site selection and planning, plant selection, planting, mulching, fertilizing, pollination, training, pruning. Also includes basic, organic, and advanced spray guidelines for disease and pest management. The best guide of its kind we have used. Now available in its 9th revised edition straight from the author, a respected and experienced wholesale fruit tree and plant wholesale grower.
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