West Coast Late Season Pollinator Plants

摘要

Autumn is here, the days are warm, the nights are cool, and bees and other pollinators are still active. For me this is one of the best times of the year since we can finally get some relief from the intense heat of Summer, and the leaves begin to change color on the trees. For bees, particularly honey bees, it is a crucial time to collect as many resources as possible so they can survive the Winter. For solitary bees and other pollinators, most of which do not live in colonies or over Winter as adults, nutrition is kept up in mating individuals and stores for brood are collected so the species may live on another year. For many of us gardeners, we love to see and support these creatures. This means reducing or eliminating the use of pesticides andproviding them with good nutrition: flowers.