Helping Bees

Helping Pollinators is good for you and the environment. Here is list of pollinator friendly plants.  Beyond honeybees, pollinator friendly plants are great for native bee species, butterflies and more. 

Here is a handy list of pollinator friendly plants. 

Trees and Shrubs:

• Basswood
•  Caragana
•  Crabapple
•  Cherries
•  Chokecherry
•  Cotoneaster
•  Dogwood
•  Elm
•  Apple
•  Gooseberry
•  Haskap
•  Hawthorn
•  Honey suckle
•  Lilac
•  Linden
•  Maple
•  Raspberry
•  Viburnum(cranberry)
•  Willow

Crops:

•  Borage
•  Buckwheat
•  Canola
•  Clover
•  Mustard

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Herbs:

•  Bee balm
•  Dandelion
•  Chives
•  Cilantro
•  Mint family
•  Oregano
•  Lavender
•  Rosemary
•  Sage
•  Thyme

Veggies

•  Beans
•  Carrot (bolting)
•  Cucumber
•  Radish (bolting)
•  Pepper
•  Spinach (bolting)
•  Squash spp.
• ​Strawberry
•  Tomatillo
• ​ Tomato ​

Bumblebee foraging on plum blossoms

Ornamental Flowers- Annuals and Perrennials

Pollinators on a wild rose blossom

Alyssum

• Anemone
• Aster
• Bellflowers
• Blanketflower
• Brown-eyed susan
• Calendula
• Catnip and other mint
• Coneflower/Echinacea
• Corn flower

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• Cosmos
• Creeping Charlie
• Crocus
• Daffodil
• Dahlia
• Delphinium
• Daisy
• Echinacea 
• Foxglove
• Gallardia
• Geranium
• Goldenrod
• Heliotrope
• Hollyhock
• Hyssop
• Liatris
• Lavender
• Lily
• Lilly of the Valley

• Lupine
• Marigold
• Pansy
• Peony
• Poppy
• Roses (single flowering)
• Sedum
• Spirea
• Snapdragon
• Sumac
• Swamp Milkweed
• Sweet William
• Sunflower
• Tulip