Wildlife Gardening Journal

Hummingbirds and Bumble Bees Love Penstemon

Oh, how I love spring. Penstemon (also known as beardtongue) are among my favor plants blooming now, in mid May. Hummingbirds and bumblebees love penstemon because they put up tall flower spikes with tubular flowers designed to attract them. A western plant, with cultivars suitable for the east Penstemon is a large genus with over ...

Flowering Quince, an Early Boon to Bees

While my last blog expounded on the benefits of native plants in a wildlife-friendly landscape, I'm going to take a brief detour to laud a familiar, but beloved, non-native. Chaenomeles speciosa or close relative, Chaenomeles japonica, both known as flowering quince, are an early boon to bees. Honeybee on flowering quince. I have lived in ...