Wildflower Program: Supports Bees and Other PollinatorsNCDOT's Roadside Environmental Unit

摘要

With these prophetic words, First Lady Dottie Martin inspired the North Carolina Department of Transportation to begin a roadside wildflower program in 1985. What began as 12 experimental acres has grown to include plantings all along interstate and primary routes across the Tar Heel State.With additional encouragement from the Garden Club of North Carolina, the North Carolina Wildflower Program now encompasses 1,500 managed acres consisting of one-third each: annuals, perennials, and North Carolina native wildflowers. One hundred percentof these wild-flowers are grown from seed, not plugs or root stock.