Plants for Pollinators!

Looking to create a garden and plants for pollinators?

Looking to create a butterfly garden?   It’s easy!  There are so many options, colors, and heights. Great choices for color are Lantana, Salvia, or Butterfly Bush. In addition, there are flowering vines and shrubs! All are great options for your garden, landscape, or container depending on your sun/ shade. Don’t forget the Plumbago and the Texas native Gregg’s Mistflower- both great additions to attract bees and butterflies.

Monarch Butterfly on Lantana

There are so many plants for pollinators. Have fun and make your own pollinator garden by planting a variety of colors and sizes to attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds! Lantana and Salvia greggii are great Texas natives that have several different options of colors, sizes, and textures. Similarly, the Mexican Bush Sage, Salvia Leucantha, a Texas favorite, is a wonderful addition as a larger perennial. Two other larger perennials are the Salvia ‘Amistad’ and Tecoma. The Tecoma comes in yellow or orange shades. The Bush Sage and Tecoma are popular with hummingbirds which is a bonus! Lantana is available in trailing or shrub form. Trailing colors – white, purple, or the New Gold, which is a gold/yellow. The shrub varieties come in multitudes of color combos.

‘Mystic Spires’ Salvia and bee

Watch our YouTube video which features a few of our favorite Lantana as well as the Firecracker Fern. We have videos of several pollinator-friendly plants such as Butterfly Bush, Tecoma, Salvia, and Plumbago.

Plant Salvia the pollinators will thank you!

‘Mystic Spires’ Salvia is a popular option for gardeners. The ‘Mystic Spires’ provide fabulous blue bloom spires spring thru fall. It is a wonderful way to bring pollinators to the garden.  Shown above in the photo with the bee, they are a favorite of pollinators. Several of our customers plant the ‘Mystic Spires’ Salvia in their garden to attract the bees.   You can’t go wrong with Salvias in general! Salvia comes in a range of heights, colors and spreads.  Choose from the low-growing May Night, the mid-range Salvia greggii or full-sized like the Mexican Bush Sage or ‘Amistad’.

Above all, have fun! Whether you want a free-flowing garden meadow to look at or a more maintained garden, the options are endless. The bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds will thank you!

Don’t forget to leave out a water source for the pollinators as well!!!