Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

Attracts: 🐝 🦋

Sun: Adaptable to a wide range of sun conditions

Soil: Adaptable to any soil

An easy to grow, perennial herb with beautiful anise scented foliage and purple flower that can be used for tea, culinary seasoning and potpourris. We love it because bees, butterflies and hummingbirds do! The Iroquois made a wash against poison ivy out of it! Prefers full sun but will tolerate part shade, well-drained soil...deer don’t like it, but who knows with our CT deer! 3-5’ tall. Note: this is not an ecotype plant.

Blue Wood Aster (Symphyotrichum (Aster) cordifolius)

Attracts: 🐝 🦋

Sun: Adaptable to a wide range of sun conditions

Soil: Adaptable to any soil

As one of the latest blooming natives, blue wood aster serves a vital role in providing the last bit of energy for our pollinators before the winter. This plant will be happy with part shade, but can tolerate nearly full sun to full shade. Large heart-shaped leaves will grow at the bottom of the plant while smaller leaves and flowers cover the upper portion. The soil should be medium to dry. Eight small plant plugs. 1-3 ft tall

Butterfly Weed (Asclepius tuberosa)

Attracts: 🐝 🦋

Sun: Adaptable to a wide range of sun conditions

Soil: Adaptable to any soil

Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun. Drought tolerant. Does well in poor, dry soils Mature plants may freely self-seed in the landscape if seed pods are not removed prior to splitting open Magnet for bees and butterflies, yet deer resistant. This plant loves dry soil and its stunning orange flowers have a long bloom period. This plant is a winner but doesn’t like to be pampered. 1-3 ft. tall.

Native Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

Attracts: 🐝 🦋

Sun: Full shade (less than 4 hours of direct sun per day)

Soil: Adaptable to any soil

Dancing Fairies of the garden! Because the hollow petals are so deep, this plant requires long-tongued pollinators: bumblebees and ruby-throated hummingbirds. Columbine is easy to grow. It likes light shade or partial sun, though it may tolerate full sun. It’s satisfied with moist to dry conditions and loamy, rocky, or slightly sandy soil. Because its leaves are toxic, you generally don’t need to worry about columbine being nibbled by common mammals, such as rabbits or deer. Petite fairy at 1-2 ft tall. 

Short toothed Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum)

Attracts: 🐝 🦋

Sun: Adaptable to a wide range of sun conditions

Soil: Prefers moist/wet soil

Planted in moist, well-drained soils in full to part sun, short toothed mountain mint will spread on its own. But with its petite (1’-3’) and elegant appearance, who could possibly get enough  of this plant? The leaves will appear silvery, and when crushed have a fragrant minty aroma. Best of all, this plant will be buzzing with excitement from visiting pollinators!

Sweet Goldenrod (Solidago odora)

Attracts: 🐝🦋

Sun: Adaptable to a wide range of sun conditions

Soil: Adaptable to any soil

...Smells like licorice! Very neat, smooth, tall plant with fragrant anise-scented leaves that can be used for tea!  LOVED by native bees, important source of energy in the fall for them and a super attractor of the predatory insects that prey upon pest insects.  PS Goldenrod does NOT cause hay fever...it is a myth. it is the Non-flowering plants like ragweed that are wind pollinated that make ya sneeze! Goldenrod is an all-around winner with super fall color. 2-5 ft. average to poor soil, sun to part shade.

Virginia Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)

Attracts: 🐝🦋

Sun: Full to partial shade (4-6 hours of direct sun per day)

Soil: Prefers moist/wet soil

This easy-care, deer resistant, perennial is a must-have for any pollinator garden.  It attracts insects, butterflies, and moths.  Songbirds, which rely on insects, will appreciate this plant in your garden.  Birds also use the dormant stems for nesting material. 2-3ft tall.

White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata)

Attracts: 🐝 🦋

Sun: Full shade (less than 4 hours of direct sun per day)

Soil: Prefers dry, gravelly, sandy soil

Flower heads are produced in profusion and are frequented by bees and butterflies. This is a woodland aster that occurs in dry open woods, in clearings, on roadsides and on the edges of deciduous forests. low mounding perennial with heart shaped or oval leaves. In late summer starry white daisies cover the plant and gleam in the shade. Plants are tough and adaptable prospering in part shade or shade and in dry or moist soils. 3 ft. tall.