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Continue ShoppingWe get asked alot at the farm about Pollinator Flowers. The subject of pollination and what it means to farmers, would take volumes to tell all. But if you are looking for flowers that can help your garden attract more pollinators, let’s dig in.
Did you know that 80% of the world's plants that produce our food need to be pollinated. That leaves only a couple hundred that don’t. It’s easy to see why it’s important in this context; no pollinators lead directly to food shortages. It really is that simple. Virtually 100% all of the seed plants need to be pollinated too.
For those who have spent too many years since high school biology, pollination simply is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, and even if it's been a while since high school I’m sure you know what this leads to...and that’s why they are important at the farm and at your garden.
Animals that are good pollinators of flowers and vegetable include: bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths, of course there are more but these are the big ones. The trick is that some plants perform so much better when you can attract many of these pollinators.
Fruit for example, is bigger, better tasting and more of them per plant. Flowers produce better blooms. We can honestly say the addition of bees on our farm has had a tremendous impact on things like the number of pumpkins per plant.
One easy strategy is planting a border of sunflowers that can act like a beacon and bring in more bees, and butterflies and hummingbirds. More pollinators means a better garden.
In honour of our bees and all the pollinators hard at work in our gardens Day Five of our Twenty Four Days of Giveaways is a pack of each of our six favourites pollinator flowers:
Cosmos Daydream - Zinnia Benary Mix - Chinese Forget Me Not Blue - Celosia Pampas Plume - Bee’s Friend - Amaranth Green Cascade and a 375 g bottle of Cocoa Iced Honey
For a chance to win leave a comment below. In your message, share what flowers work best to attract pollinators in your garden, what has brought you joy in the past months, anything really, as long as it's meant to pick people up. EASY.
This giveaway is only open to anyone with a Canadian shipping address . Contest is open December 5th for 24 hours. Closes December 5th at midnight PT.
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulation to Linda!
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Cheryl
Dec 05, 2020
I grew more flowers this year than I ever have before and it was amazing! I was surprised by how much joy it gave me to watch all the pollinators. I think the chamomile and agastache were their big favourites but they also loved the sunflowers, poppies, calendula, veronica, & monarda. I can’t wait for next year!
Melissa
Dec 05, 2020
I love seeing bees in the garden but this past summer I received some very dark purple poppies from a friend and I could not get over how the bees loved them, some flowers had 4 and 5 bees per bloom.
Alix B
Dec 05, 2020
Red Beebalm, for bees and hummingbirds. And the sunflowers, where they nap overnight. Love all the pollinators. Ok, except black flies, but they pollinate blueberries, so eventhey get a little love.
Kerry Rhodes
Dec 05, 2020
p.s. I’m finding bees live dahlias too,and for sleeping in