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How to create a “pollinator” friendly landscape: -Plant flowers with pollen and nectar. -Create habitat and nesting sites for pollinators. -Replace lawn areas that are difficult to mow with shrubs and flowers. • Example of trees and shrubs beneficial to pollinator species: 1)Roses - Carefree Delight, Nearly Wild Rose, Purple Pavement Rose, Winnipeg Parks Rose 2)Lilac - Miss Kim Lilac, Common Purple Lilac, Sensation Lilac 3)Fruit bearing shrubs >6’ - Regent Serviceberry, Glossy Black Chokeberry, Gold Fruited Winterberry, Latham Raspberry, Coralberry, Northsky Blueberry 4)Non-fruit bearing shrubs >6’ - New Jersey Tea, Kalm's St. John's Wort, Miniature Snowflake Mock Orange, Abbotswood Potentilla, Dakota Goldrush Potentilla, Dwarf Blue Leaf Arctic Willow, Spirea (several varieties) 5)Fruit trees - Apple, Crabapple, Pear, Cherry, Chokecherry, Plum 6)Deciduous trees - Red Maple, Snowcloud' Shadblow Serviceberry, Northern Catalpa, Yellowwood, Downy hawthorn, Kentucky Coffee Tree, Ironwood, Golden Weeping Willow, Showy Mountain Ash, Littleaf Linden How to create a “butterfly” friendly garden: -Grow nectar-producing plants that will have flowers in bloom throughout the season. -Flowers with multiple florets that produce abundant nectar are ideal. -Provide host plants for the caterpillar forms of butterflies. -Supplement the garden’s flower nectar with a homemade feeder. -Avoid the use of broad spectrum pesticides sprayed all around the yard. -Select a variety of nectar-producing plants with the aim of providing flowers in bloom throughout the season. This will entice a continuous succession of new visitors to a yard. It is especially important to have flowers in mid to late summer, when most butterflies are active. Pollinators: -Pollinators help plants that bring us food and other resources. By carrying pollen from one plant to another, pollinators fertilize plants and allow them to make fruit or seeds. -Bees are one of the most well-known pollinators, but there are a variety of other pollinators including ants, flies, beetles, birds and more. -There are approximately 200,000 different species of animals around the world that act as pollinators. There are thousands of pollinator species in Minnesota, including over 400 species of native bees. Native Plants: Plants that are native to Minnesota are often easier to grow than non-native varieties. They are already adapted to our soil and climate and need minimal care to grow and thrive. -Native grasses for pollinators - Big Bluestem, Blue Grama, Prairie Dropseed -Native plants for pollinators – too many to type – pasted whole page;