Landscape planting featuring native plants, trees and grasses at the Kerr Center designed to attract pollinators.

1. Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Poteau, OK

2. Kerr Center office landscape

3.  Establish a low-maintenance, drought tolerant, attractive
landscape using native plants that will attract native pollinators
 Survey native plants on the Kerr Ranch
 Research native plants and pollinators and plants
 Experiment with gathering and starting plants from seed
 Experiment with transplants
 Design landscape elements
 Plant landscape

4.  Use landscape as an outdoor classroom to educate visitors
about native plants and pollinators
 Plants labeled
 Field days
 Photo-document landscape and post info and photos
online
 Create fact sheets, reports and other educational resources
for use by farmers, ranchers, ag educators and landowners

5.  Native Plant Selection
 A few questions to ask:
 What grows well in my area?
 Which plants will attract the pollinators I want?
 Can I create a landscape that will attract pollinators
throughout the growing season?
 Which plants look attractive in a landscape planting?

6. Kerr Center’s
office landscape
2011-15
David Redhage
planned the native
landscape

8. Some success with seeds

9.  David Redhage
 with Giant Coneflower

10. Transplants
purchased
from Bustami
Plant Farm,
Stillwater, OK

11.  Golden indigo
 Barbara’s button
 Giant coneflower

12. Illinois Bundleflower Frog Fruit

14. 2013-14

15.  2013

22. 2013 2014

25. Slender Mountain Mint

29. Illinois Bundlef lower 2013

34. Maximilian’s
Sunflower
June 2013

36. Maximilian’s
Sunflower
October 2013

40.  Fall 2013

42.  2013

58. Contact David Redhage
Project Manager dredhage@kerrcenter.com

59. This material is based upon work supported by the Natural Resources
Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under number 69 -
7335-1-21
Any opinions, f indings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publ ication are those of the
author(s) and do not necessari ly ref lect the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture