Native Plant Gardening for Butterflies & Pollinators

Do you need help starting or maintaining your native plant garden? Are you unsure of which native trees to add to your yard? Interested in creating a garden in your small yard? Bring your questions and love for pollinators!
Rochester Pollinators host Dr. Mary Jamieson presents "Native Plant Gardening for Butterflies."
Three presentations beginning with the basics of planting and maintaining your pollinator garden followed by beneficial trees and flora for butterflies and easy urban gardening tips. A Q&A session will end the event with our presenters-Dr. Mary Jamieson (Assistant Professor Biological Sciences at Oakland University and Oakland County Michigan Butterfly Network Coordinator), Brenda Dziedzic (author of Raising Butterflies in the Garden and Monarch Watch Conservation Specialist), and Carolyn Jean Miller (Horticulturist/Botanist and Board President of Wildflower Association of Michigan).

[@LINativePlantConservation]

wow the lady talking about the small garden space, super applicable to me and helpful. love all the speakers thank you so muhc, more please!

[@PlantNative]

Wow…Brenda gave me the info I need!!! Thanks small garden here too.

[@kitty4tify]

Congratulations! Awesome informative video. Greetings from Toronto.

[@TheIdeabaker]

So much solid information here. Thank you from another science/garden enthusiast. New subscriber. 💗

[@TrishLewis-zo2rn]

Thank you so much for this. Your presentation is so thorough and really gives a lot of help on organizing a garden . . . I've just discovered the Agastache and it is THE favorite of bumblebees--and the specialist bees and butterflies love it as well. I'm having a terrible time keeping my milkweeds alive, although it's a brand-new garden, so I'll just wait and see.

[@j.kaimori3848]

Changing planting density can change the predetation levels, but they did also mention nets. Insects can get through bird nets if that's something you want to try. You might want to limit that to one or two clusters of plants or trees and not the whole garden, but it gets around the issue of bringing them indoors.

[@CompetitiveFishingFreak]

Greetings from Roseville Michigan, I'm in my 1st year in building a butterfly garden,but in my 4th year in rearing monarch butterflies, I have a definite interest in taking it to another level rearing black swallowtails, I'm starting with Rue,have 4 plants from pots thanks to Ray Wiengards located at 22 Romeo Plank Rd,my interest is doing it right the first time,any tips would help including the soil.❤️