Garden Bed #2
The Bees and Pollinators Garden:
The focus here is on fire-wise plants that offer bees and other native pollinators food throughout the season. It features an Insect Hotel that offers homes to a range of native bees and pollinators and a “Sand Bank Nesting Site” for the many native ground nesting bees (90% of them) that live in Oregon. Look for the Bee Watering Station, too. Bees are thirsty creatures and we have provided for that need.
Features to look for:
Insect Hotel
Sand Bank Nesting Site for Ground nesting bees
Bee Watering tray
Plants used in this bed include:
Existing Crepe Myrtle tree – a bee and butterfly favorite
Oceanspray – Native Flowering Shrub – 10′- 20′ high and wide
Ceonothus – Native Flowering Shrub
Russian Sage – Large summer flowering perennial
Winter Heather – Evergreen winter blooming heather
Thyme – Evergreen summer flowering herb
Blue Fescue – Evergreen native clump grass
Orange Sedge – Clumping Grass like plant
Other Grass – low growing clump grass
Catmint – Evergreen spring/summer flowering herb
Lavendar – Evergreen summer flowering herb
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