Presentation by Michelle Wisdom from the University of Arkansas to the Carroll County Arkansas Master Gardeners, February 11, 2017.

1. Attracting and Protecting Landscape Pollinators
Michelle Wisdom
University of Arkansas
Department of Horticulture
A presentation to
Carroll County Master Gardeners
March 11, 2017

2. Pollinator
An agent that pollinates flowers, a vector
(insects, animals, wind)
Don Steinkraus

3. Crocus flavus ‘Golden Yellow’

5. Pollination
http://www.tootieanddotes.com/blog/2014/11/3/pollination-cross-pollination

6. Hyacinthus orientalis ‘Pink Pearl’

7. Muscari armeniacum – Grape Hyacinth

8. Pollen (protein) + Nectar (carbs) = Nutrition
Flowers are food for pollinators

10. Pollinator Decline
Causes
 Varroa Mite and Viruses
 Monocultures and Poor Nutrition
 Stress
 Pesticides

11. Why bees are disappearing
www.ted.com/talks/marla_spivak_why_bees_are_disappe
aring

12. Honeybees

13. Native bees

14. Other Pollinators
Butterflies
Ants
Beetles
Flies
Wasps
Hummingbirds

15. What you can do
Provide habitat: adequate food, shelter (canopy
layer), and water resources
Photo by www.Notonthehighstreet.com

16. What you can do
Plant flowers: groupings, diversity

17. Trees
What you can do:
Remember, food comes in all kinds of packaging
Bulbs
Acer rubrum – Red Maple Muscari aucheri ‘Mount Hood’

18. What you can do
Succession planting- the practice of designing
with plants that have different bloom times so
there is always something flowering in the
landscape.

19. Succession Planting
•
Spring- red maple, hawthorne, serviceberry, lenten
rose, crocus, clover
•
Summer- linden, black locust, catalpa, tulip tree,
buttonbush, echineacea, coreopsis, milkweed, salvia,
sunflower, self-heal
•
Fall- American witch-hazel, abelia, composites (aster,
chysanthemum), salvia

20. What you can do
Shelter - Multiple layers in your landscape

21. Sources of pollinator nutrition: trees
Trees: Linden, Red maple, Tulip Tree, Black
gum, Black locust, Hawthorne, Yellow Wood,
Persimmon, Pawpaw, Red buckeye

22. Sources of pollinator nutrition: trees
Cornelian cherry dogwood

23. Sources of pollinator nutrition: shrubs
Shrubs: Holly, Viburnum, Sumac, Serviceberry,
Buttonbush, Yellow twig dogwood, St. John’s
wort

24. Asclepias tuberosa
(butterfly weed) Echinacea (coneflower)
Sources of pollinator nutrition: perennials

25. Sources of pollinator nutrition: perennials
Milkweed, Coreopsis, Aster, Bee-balm, Hyssop

26. Sources of pollinator nutrition: annuals
Melampodium
(Butter Daisy)
Zinnia elegans ‘State Fair Mix’

27. Objective
A teaching garden identifying sources of nutrition for
an array of pollinators- University of Arkansas

28. Entries for Pollinator Nursery
Scientific Name Common Name
Agastache foeniculum Hyssop
Asclepias syriaca Common milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa Butterflyweed
Coreopsis lanceolata Lanceleaf coreposis
Echinacea spp Coneflower
Lyatris pycnostachya Prairie blazing star
Monarda fistulosa Bee balm
Gomphrena globosa Globe amaranth
‘Strawberry Fields’
Salvia farinacea Salvia ‘Fairy Queen’
Zinnia elegans Zinnia ‘State Fair Mix’

29. Agastache foeniculum (hyssop)

30. Salvia ‘Summer Jewel Red’

31. Gomphrena ‘Strawberry Fields’

32. Zinnia ‘State Fair Mix’

33. Closing thoughts...
Pollination feeds bees and us
Pollinator survival is key!
To help pollinators:
 Create suitable habitats with food, water,
shelter
 Plant flowers! Know the correct cultivars
 Teach others pollinator friendly practices!