Pollinators have been in rapid decline in recent years, but you can help them by adding pollinator-friendly plants in your garden.
You can design your Butterfly Garden to provide a long season of beauty, as well as plants that supply nectar and shelter.
As caterpillars, Monarchs feed exclusively on the leaves of Asclepias (commonly known as Milkweed), and simply cannot live without it.
Gardeners often focus on installing Perennials for a pollinator-friendly garden, but did you know that many Annuals are also pollinator favorites?
Here are our favorite early pollinator plants that you can plant in your New England garden.
Many gardeners love Phlox because of their prolonged bloom phases, easy maintenance, and versatility in the garden. Learn about the three types of Phlox, and the benefits they bring to the garden.
You can directly help the Honey Bees, Monarch Butterflies, and Hummingbirds you love so much.
Imagine if everyone starting a new garden made the conscious decision to plant for our pollinator friends? It wouldn’t have to be 100%, but enough to increase the pollinators in their yard and neighborhood? Reducing the use of chemicals: pesticides, herbicides and fungicides also...
Because we practice IPM here at Rolling Green Nursery, the crops we grow are considered ‘bee-friendly’: no pesticides applied or nothing applied within the last 2 weeks. Since the day Rick began his landscape business 40 years ago, which slowly evolved into grower/retailer, Rolling Green remains ecologically mindful of...
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