Slideshow presented to Carroll County, Arkansas Master Gardeners monthly membership meeting by Michelle Wisdom, University of Arkansas Dept of Horticulture, March 2017.
2. Attracting and Protecting Landscape Pollinators
Michelle Wisdom
University of Arkansas
Department of Horticulture
A presentation to
Carroll County Master Gardeners
March 11, 2017
16. What you can do
Provide habitat: adequate food, shelter (canopy
layer), and water resources
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17. What you can do
Plant flowers: groupings, diversity
18. Trees
What you can do:
Remember, food comes in all kinds of packaging
Bulbs
Acer rubrum – Red Maple Muscari aucheri ‘Mount Hood’
19. 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.
20. Succession Planting
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Spring- red maple, hawthorne, serviceberry, lenten
rose, crocus, clover
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Summer- linden, black locust, catalpa, tulip tree,
buttonbush, echineacea, coreopsis, milkweed, salvia,
sunflower, self-heal
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Fall- American witch-hazel, abelia, composites (aster,
chysanthemum), salvia
21. What you can do
Shelter - Multiple layers in your landscape
22. Sources of pollinator nutrition: trees
Trees: Linden, Red maple, Tulip Tree, Black
gum, Black locust, Hawthorne, Yellow Wood,
Persimmon, Pawpaw, Red buckeye