Planting Guide for your native pollinator garden NORTHEAST REGION Use the arrangement below to have a continuous garden - spring, summer, & fall CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV 6’ New England aster cardinal flower butterfly milkweed NICHOLAS TONELLI THOMAS BARNES USFWS-RACHEL SULLIVAN 3’ white wood aster FRITZ FLOHR REYNOLDS bee balm Joe Pye weed USFS JAMES GAITHER foxglove beardtongue Eastern red columbine wild geranium USFWS-RACHEL SULLIVAN AARON CARLSON CHELSI BURNS BLOOM SEASON For best Spring results, use Summer multiple plants Fall of each species. Follow these steps to create your beautiful native pollinator garden NORTHEAST REGION CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV 1 Identify your garden spot: BLOOM SEASON NATIVE PLANT OPTIONS Find a 3’ x 6’ plot that gets 6+ hours of sun. Your state’s native plant society can recommend additional locally Have a larger area? Include more choices and clump the same appropriate native species. See North American Pollinator Protection Campaign Ecoregional Planting Guides for additional species together. information: www.pollinator.org/guides. Remove or smother existing lawn or vegetation. FIRST OPTION SECOND OPTION Enhance hard-packed soil with organic compost. SEASON Spring Eastern red columbine squirrel corn 2 Buy plants at a local native plant nursery, if possible. Aquilegia canadensis Dicentra canadensis wild geranium wild lupine 3 Plant! Geranium maculatum Lupinus perennis foxglove beardtongue golden ragwort Arrange plants with different seasonal blooms in your plot. WILD LUPINE Penstemon digitalis Packera aurea Dig holes twice as large as each plant’s pot. Summer common milkweed butterfly milkweed Remove the plant from the pot, loosen the roots, place it in Asclepias syriaca Asclepias tuberosa the hole, backfill, tamp soil, and water. beebalm woodland sunflower Mulch plot to depth < 1 inch, keeping mulch away from Monarda fistulosa Helianthus divaricatus stems and avoid using hardwood chips and shreds. Joe Pye weed narrowleaf mountain mint MOUNTAIN Eutrochium fistulosum Pycnanthemum tenuifolium 4 Maintain your garden: MINT Water to keep moist throughout the first two weeks, Fall white wood aster cardinal flower then as needed or when plants droop. Eurybia divaricata Lobelia cardinalis Weed as needed. gray goldenrod wrinkleleaf goldenrod Solidago nemoralis Solidago rugosa Avoid using insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides. Be patient - your garden may take a few years to fully New England aster white turtlehead Symphyotrichum Chelone glabra establish and fill in! WHITE TURTLEHEAD novae-angliae Add your garden: www.millionpollinatorgardens.org color dots above indicate bloom color All three images in this table are NPS photos..