{"id":815,"date":"2018-06-15T21:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gardenecologylab\/?p=815"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:10:06","slug":"plant-list-pollinator-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gardenecologylab\/2018\/06\/15\/plant-list-pollinator-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant List for Pollinator Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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California poppy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Over the past year, I have have given many presentations that highlighted the high bee activity at ‘site 51’; a garden that is fairly small (0.1 acre) and in a heavily developed area of East Portland. Despite its size and location, ‘site 51’ had the second highest number of bees from our 2017 collections. I suspect bee diversity will also be high at site 51.<\/p>\n

This garden is managed by someone who is an avid Xerces Society<\/a> member. He gardens specifically for pollinators, and it shows! His garden is a true testament to the idea that ‘if you plant it, they will come’.<\/p>\n

So what plants are in this garden? Our preliminary plant list (from a brief 2017 survey) can be found below. I will add Latin names, when I have a moment. For now, I hope that the common name list might introduce you to a new plant or two that might work well\u00a0in your own garden.<\/p>\n

Several of the plants in this garden are native to the Willamette Valley, and are included in Aaron Anderson’s study of native plants<\/a>. The photos in this post are from Aaron’s field research.<\/p>\n

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