Attracting Butterflies and Bees to Your Backyard
Our pollinators play an incredibly vital role in the food industry; however, their populations are declining. We need to learn how to sustain their populations. Let’s start with learning their needs, and identifying what plants attract them.
Additional Information
Butterflies and bees are essential for plant pollination and play a vital role in the food industry. In order to sustain their populations, we need to help provide them a safe environment. Identifying their needs helps us determine what we can do in our backyards; incorporating annuals, perennials, & native plants in our yards invites them to dinner, and to stay a little while. Native plants are low-maintenance, and many are drought tolerant. Annuals provide color for a longer period of time and perennials are there every year for them to visit. The habitat you create will also invite other wildlife.
Restrictions:
Availability: Anytime BUT limited daytime availability during months of March through June (I work at a Garden Center)
Speaker Information
Lu Tarr
Lu Tarr became a Master Gardener in 2010. Her volunteer efforts have included Kansas City’s Flower, Lawn & Garden Show, Garden & Grow, Hotline, Community Gardens, Spring Fling, Planning & Communications Committee, & Speaker’s Bureau. She enjoys volunteering at the many Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City’s events.
Lu has been a lifelong garden enthusiast, starting in the family’s vegetable gardens on the farm, and continuing with growing natives, annuals, perennials, & herbs in her gardens today. And she has many houseplants! She tries to encourage the wildlife to visit by providing micro-habitats in her gardens. Lu also loves to create and incorporate “whimsy” in her gardens for that fun factor. During the spring, she can be found working in a local garden center and assisting friends, neighbors, and her HOA with gardening tasks.
Interested in This Program?
Book now by clicking the button below.