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If you don’t think you have space for apollinator garden, think again.
And just a few pots of flowers can attract a surprising number of pollinators.
Plants with similar soil and watering needs should be grouped together for easy care.
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Throw in a plant or two for the caterpillars to feed on.
Salvia
Salvias includeculinary sage, Russian sage, red salvia, blue salvia, and more.
The tubular blossoms will attract pollinators for months until the flowers fade away at the first frost.
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Pentas
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Pentas is an easy summer annual that may overwinter in Zone 10.
Pentas grows in any well-draining soil and requires less watering than most flowers.
This plant has a long bloom season and willattract hummingbirdsalong with other pollinators.
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Butterflies and hummingbirds especially love it.
Lavender
This Mediterranean plant has a heavenly scent that you will relish as much as pollinators do.
Bumblebees, honey bees, and butterflies will pay your lavender a visit.
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Dill
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Dill can serve dual purposes in your container garden.
Grab a few sprigs whenever you want tocan pickles, and leave the rest for the pollinators.
If you let it flower, the smaller pollinator insects will appreciate the yellow blooms.
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Black swallowtail caterpillars will happily munch on the ferny foliage.
Many types of bees, nectar-feeding moths, and hummingbirds may swing by as well.
This cheerful Central American flower will keep blooming until the first frost as long as youdeadhead the flowers.
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Zinnias are moderately drought-tolerant once established, though regular water will keep those flowers coming.
The medicinal scent and tightly packed flowers attract lots of native bees and other insects.
Yarrow comes in shades of white, yellow, and pink and blooms from late spring into early fall.
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The smaller-sized bees, butterflies, and flies will appreciate the boost.
incarnatais the best choice for a container.
Keep the soil moist.
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Bee Balm
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The tubular flowers of bee balm attract many pollinators besides bees.
Bee balm prefers to have consistently moist soil.
Containers will keep this vigorous member of the mint family constrained.
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Anise hyssop’s leaves have ananise scentand the subtle flavor of mint and licorice.
It’s known as hummingbird mint for good reason.
The flower spikes appear from late summer into fall, drawing hummingbirds to your garden.
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The leaves and flowers can be used in salads and teas.
Coreopsis
Coreopsis can be annual or perennial and may have slender or broad leaves.
It can be used in mixed containers to fill in around taller plants.
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These plants are known as tickseed because of the appearance of the seeds, whichsongbirds enjoy eatingin the fall.
These wildflowers will be more vigorous in average or low-fertility soil.
Trim off spent flowers to encourage more blooms.
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These tough plants are compact and must have good drainage, which makes them great container plants.
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