23 Perennial Flowers to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden | Perennial Garden

[@marilynH66]

Every time I watch your videos, almost always, I find myself in the local nurseries looking for the flowers that you have growing in your garden. Thanks for sharing videos of your stunning garden and the plants that reside on it.

[@perennial-garden]

💚 we know that feeling. Thank you for such a lovely comment. Happy gardening weekend from us to you!

[@jbphoto7493]

So true I’m on my way to a nursery now! What can I find?

[@bewoodford2807]

Hi guys. You have shown us some absolutely gorgeous plants, many of which can be grown from seed, keeping the cost of encouraging pollinators into the garden, low. If we have the insects we will have the birds. fabulous. Thank you so much. I now have a new wish list for the seed catalogue. Happy gardening 🙂

[@perennial-garden]

So true! It’s not difficult to grow all of these from seed - and they’ll spread and come back year after year to keep the wallet and the pollinators happy 💚🐝

[@bethciaccio3450]

I really appreciate how great you guys are at putting the names, especially in the description. Wish everyone did this! Some great ideas from this video thank you 😊

[@perennial-garden]

You’re very welcome, Beth! Thank you for saying that - we know that we’d appreciate it in a video, so we make sure to add them. Not sure if all the common names are correct 😅 but the scientific ones are (and the Danish ones obviously 😂)

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

Thank you for showing us the beautiful perennials for pollinators.

[@perennial-garden]

You have gorgeous ones in your garden too 🥰 the bees must be so happy for that!

[@wendybartlett6717]

All the years that I've been gardening, I never knew about the Lupin opening when the bees land on the flowers. How amazing is that? Nature is fascinating. I love seeing and hearing the bees in my garden. They need all the help we can give them. Your own garden and the one at the cemetery are looking stunning.

[@perennial-garden]

Isn’t it neat? Creation has so many surprises when we look for them 💚💚

[@plantaddict4951]

One of my favorite pollinator plants at the moment is Echinacea. Where I live in the US, Echinacea (specifically Echinacea Purpurea) is a Native and can be found in meadows and on roadsides. It’s overall a beautiful flower that is great for the pollinators. I also really like Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum) and Goldenrod (specifically the variety ’Fireworks’, which spreads much less than the weedy, older varieties).

[@perennial-garden]

Love those! We have Joe Pye Weed - just not in flower yet. And you’re right - native is the way to go. Thanks for commenting - love hearing what gardeners like you are growing 💚🥰. Big hello from Denmark 🇩🇰

[@77sun222]

Hello guys Enjoyed this very much. I love the large swathes of planting in the cemetery gardens. Really showcases their full potential. Your foresight to stake plants is fantastic. Love your enthusiasm🍻🌟🌟🌟💯

[@perennial-garden]

Thank you so much! It’s a different way to garden than at our house, but still with a lot of the same native plants. Hope you have a great weekend 💚

[@jwhite5396]

I’m happy Danielle from Northlawn Flower Farm mentioned your channel! Thanks for sharing your garden and growing tips!

[@perennial-garden]

Hello and a huge Welcome! I'm so glad she mentioned us, too! WE ARE huge fans of anything she does :). What video did she mention us in?

[@jwhite5396]

Sorry, I don’t recall, but I’ve been watching you ever since.

[@perennial-garden]

@@jwhite5396 And we're super glad 🥰. Love what she's done with her library and everything. And all of her bulbs... love it!

[@jwhite5396]

@@perennial-garden Popular content! 🌻 The guys from Cranery Gardens posted a video of them watching one of your videos two days ago. It’s towards the end of their video. 😀

[@perennial-garden]

@@jwhite5396 We ADORE CRANE! He's such a genuine, sweet and kind person -- and the things he does with cut flowers... amazing 🤩 We watch him all the time, too 😇

[@leighrendler2256]

So inspiring, thanks

[@perennial-garden]

You are so welcome! Big hello from Denmark 🇩🇰

[@EnolaElorie]

I love your garden and am very happy to get another look at Lars' workplace as well. Both are beautiful and it must be so nice to be able to spend so much time in such amazing places. Do you guys know the name of the variety of Heuchera you showed? I know I saw it somewhere before and it always catches my eye. The lush green of the foliage in combination with those red flower spikes is just thrilling. Have a nice weekend, you guys!!❤

[@perennial-garden]

It really is! He loves going to work every day. 💚 That variety is Heuchera sanguinea ‘Leuchtkäfer’ - it means firefly… so maybe it’s called that in your area, too.

[@lulus7511]

Thank you gentlemen for sharing so much beauty and so much knowledge. We love your work and your communicative passion for plants!🌺💖🌺

[@perennial-garden]

You are so very welcome! Hope you’re having a great gardening weekend 💚💚

[@valdiego-san]

All the plants & flowers you two shared in this tour are AMAZING ~ I would imagine spending my lunch break at the cemetery perennial garden, having conversations with the buzzing bees & crawling lady bugs 💚💚💚 16:45 ~ What a KILLER new shot of this one. I may guess it was during sunset (?), but again it could be a shot of early morning sunrise since I suppose that corner is facing East/the beach (?) - Oh what do I know! Nevertheless, perfect closing for an immacualte tour 💐

[@perennial-garden]

Thanks! That was a sunset recently -- gorgeous, right! The whole sky was just magical that night ... no filter or anything. Really just so beautiful.

[@mapndo2337]

Love to see the bees, moths, butterflies, wasps, flies, etc on Delphinium, Verbascum, Eremurus (Foxtail Lilies), Kniphofia, Verbena, Digitalis, and Alcea (Hollyhock)....its like the luxe penthouses way up there. 😅😂

[@perennial-garden]

🤩 love the penthouse thought! Our verbascum were a hit too - so we’ve collected seeds and plan more next season.

[@nicholasryan5401]

Beautiful natural looking garden, its a pollinators dream. We have some of the plants in our garden that you have like salvia nemorosa, foxgloves, delphiniums, astrantias and geranium rozannes. We have other plants that bees like which are delosperma, African daisies, brook thistle, lilies, alstromeria, calla lilies, astilbes, echinacea, rudbeckia, salvia amistad, coreopsis, hebes, fuchsias, centaureas, knapweed, clematises, campanula, monarda, orvala, flowering hostas and snapdragons.

[@perennial-garden]

What an incredible list! We have some of those, too -- although not in this video. But we are missing a few from your list. Thank you for sharing it :) I bet the garden is gorgeous this time of year.

[@ЛилияЗайнутдинова-д9г]

Эти великолепно! Стиль вашего сада меня очаровал. Некоторые из этих цветов растут в наших лесах и я их пересаживаю в свой сад.

[@perennial-garden]

That's a great way to get more native plants into your garden! We've done that with a few of our plants, too.

[@ЛилияЗайнутдинова-д9г]

@@perennial-garden I like the style of English gardens, so I am happy to repeat after you. Thank you for the beauty!

[@perennial-garden]

@@ЛилияЗайнутдинова-д9г You are so welcome!

[@Wiseamphibian87]

Beautiful Garden 🪴; Am a fairly new Gardener so getting lots of inspiration & ideas to make my backyard look more beautiful 😍😍!! Thanks 4 sharing

[@perennial-garden]

Wonderful! So glad you can find some inspiration here 💚

[@sannaericditsler4034]

Thank you for the video. All great varieties for me to consider.

[@perennial-garden]

And they're all really easy to grow here in our climate at least :)

[@MadAboutGardening]

Thanks guys for showing us more beautiful plants. The wildlife will be very thankful. The eryngiums at the cemetery look great and so much further on than ones in the UK. 😍😀🐝

[@perennial-garden]

And when planted in a big group, they’re really pretty. Wish we had this kind of space and opportunity at home.

[@MadAboutGardening]

@@perennial-garden Us too! We're running out of space fast and still have plants to go out 🤣🤣

[@perennial-garden]

@@MadAboutGardening We have a rule... a plant can't come in without one going out. Altho I'm the only one who obeys that rule here 🤣

[@MadAboutGardening]

@@perennial-garden Sounds like a rule that is destined to be broken! 🤣

[@waynejones750]

Beautiful garden ❤

[@perennial-garden]

Thanks! Hope you have a great week ahead 😎

[@srivallibalajiprabhu8559]

மாலை வணக்கம் 🎉🎉என் favorite colour lavender எனக்கு பிடித்த ஊதா பூக்கள் 🎉🎉 சூப்பராக உள்ளது நிஜமாகவே 🎉🎉

[@perennial-garden]

It’s one of our favorites too 💜💜

[@PlantRelated]

I love your garden! Native plants are important because the caterpillars can eat native plants' leaves. Host plants, native plants are best in my understanding for pollinators, butterflies, and moths (have you heard of Doug Tallamy?) because certain insect species can only lay eggs on those specific plants. And their caterpillars can only eat that specific plants' leaves. Other plants like foxglove are good for the adults stage - let us remember to support the whole life cycle. Let us plant multi taskers, like asters and goldenrod her in US. We will also in this way, support birds who feed their young with caterpillars. Once again, I love your garden! and am incorporating your style with native plantings. Both and all! I know this is a pollinator video, and i wasnt sure if the viewers were aware of keystone species to support the whole lifecycle

[@perennial-garden]

SUCH IMPORTANT INFORMATION! Thank you for sharing -- and it's so true, native plants are the way to go. We often hear that native plants look too weedy or aren't 'fancy' enough -- but we've made a whole garden with so many things that are native to Denmark and our area. And with a little love, anything can be beautiful -- not just the 'showstoppers' like we all think of in some of the more famous gardens. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and obvious passion for pollinator gardens!

[@lindsaysmit2995]

I love these plants! We are visiting Denmark this summer and I must (and will) see this cemetary garden. 😲😍 It looks so pretty. 🌿

[@perennial-garden]

Exciting! When are you coming to Denmark? All of the cemeteries in Denmark are treated this way -- like public parks. ((Altho this one is the prettiest ;) )) If you're near Fredericia... stop by and visit our garden!

[@lindsaysmit2995]

At the end of august. I would love to visit your garden! 😍 I am following you on Instagram as well, I will contact you there about it. 🌿🌿 We are going from Odense to Randers via Fredericia. So maybe we can work something out. 💚

[@perennial-garden]

@@lindsaysmit2995 Would be great! Lars says you wrote on IG, so we'll connect there :)

[@anniehoefnagel2745]

Another beautiful video!

[@perennial-garden]

Glad you enjoyed it, Annie! Hope you have a great gardening weekend ahead :)

[@airi777]

I love every videos of you guys.I can sense how much you love gardening.

[@perennial-garden]

We sure do! And I'm sure you do, too :)

[@traceyclark2125]

Yet again another informative video. Lars garden you work in looks beautiful. Enjoy your weekend guys and I bet I can guess where you'll be, just like me - in the garden.

[@perennial-garden]

It is a wonderful plane to work - lots to do!… but wonderful to be in such a beautiful place. Happy gardening weekend 💚

[@Lea-zf7lm]

Good afternoon! At 15:27 to the right of the pink geranium, in the foreplan, there's a lone green stem. Do you know the name of the plant? Do you consider it a weed? I have some in my garden now and have no idea what they are or how they got here. My fingers are crossed that you will know 😊 Also, I kill all Jacob's Ladder. Variegated, green, it doesn't matter, if you need one killed, send it to me 🙄😂 It's frustrating, but I might try again since it has been a few years. ps thanks for the name of the giant scabious! I got it at a plant exchange and it wasn't at all what the tag said, just like at Walmart 😂 lovely, vigorous plant.

[@perennial-garden]

Lars says it’s a Epipactis helleborine - a wild orchid in Danish - it’s there by itself he says 😅 and wasn’t planted. They’re to keep those grounds quite organized.. but oops 😂

[@balprzebierancow3744]

I love your videos! 💗🌸🌱 I discovered your channel yesterday and can’t stop watching 😊 So inspiring, so useful information - names, shapes, seeds, heights etc. I’m planning my holiday in Denmark, including Billung Legoland and then moving to Kopenhagen. Will you please give me the name of the public garden you visited in this video? It’d be fun if I could drop in 😅🥰

[@perennial-garden]

Welcome to Denmark 🇩🇰. That’s the cemetery garden where Lars works - it’s in Fredericia. If you’re driving, it’s about 40 mins from Billund - and you’ll have to pass by Fredericia on your way to Copenhagen anyway 😀

[@balprzebierancow3744]

@@perennial-garden Thanks a million for you reply 💗 That’s exactly what I checked - it’s on our way so if children have their fun in Legoland I want to have my fun in this garden 😊 So I’m getting ready for it. I checked google maps and it shows the garden as located at Indre Ringvej / Christiansvej / Randvalsve. Is that correct? Sorry for bothering you but I really want to visit it 🌸🌱🇩🇰

[@perennial-garden]

@@balprzebierancow3744 It's REALLY easy to get to... Vesterdalsvej 1A, 7000 Fredericia... right as you enter Fredericia (just outside of the ramparts). Fredericia itself is really pretty to visit anyway. And let us know when you go... I'll make sure Lars is on the look out for you :)

[@najwaseiya]

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[@perennial-garden]

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[@michaellundberg2532]

Again a great video. My garden is built only for flying insects. Just added plants for moths which im sure will look great next year. Thanks for sharing your ideas on which plants to buy.

[@perennial-garden]

I bet yours is beautiful! And I can imagine the moths adding a lot of movement to the space. Hope you’re having a great Sunday in the garden 💚

[@cathytalaske6255]

I raise honeybees, so found this very interesting. I do grow most of the flowers you sowed, in some form. The one I really liked was cephalaria gigantea, I grow a small one of this. It gets small flowers on stems that max out at about 2 ft. I will try to find the giantea one. Love your garden and the beautiful ones at the cemetary

[@perennial-garden]

That giant one is really spectactular -- we're growing it in our garden this year, too -- but it's not as developed as the one we showed in the video yet. Hope your honeybees are having a great summer enjoying your garden :)

[@helengannon8855]

Do you start your plants from seed? I have no luck with delphinium and shásta daisy have you any suggestions. I love your garden and what you are trying to achieve

[@perennial-garden]

Yes I normally sow most of my plants from seeds. Some are sown right after I harvest them, some I winter sow, depending on which plant. You can sow Delphiniums in spring, autumn and even winter. I sow them in trays and place them in our unheated greenhouse. I replant them in larger pots once they have the second set og leaves. I have great success with winter sowing in January. The Daisy seeds I sow right after they have turned brown on the flower. Good luck:)

[@helengannon8855]

@@perennial-garden thank you

[@arnorrian1]

​@@helengannon8855True, winter sowing is a sure method, I had great success with both plants. Delphinium even flowered the first year. Just make sure the jugs don't dry out. And to move them into shadow if it gets very warm outside.

[@andreabriem853]

Great tips for the sunny side of a garden. Can we attract pollonaitors in half or full shade?

[@perennial-garden]

In our shadier side (still with half sun), we have Aquilegia, Digitalis, Mt Cornflower, Jacob's Ladder, and Geranium. We don't have much in full shade... only the hostas and astilbe, both of which will attract bees. What do you have in your shaded areas?

[@PlantRelated]

Native plants are most full shade and there are so many options! red columbine, jack in the pulpit, fern, sweet pepperbush, black cohosh, foamflower, crested iris, tall anemone virginiana. Depending on where you are these may be native to you,. just google native plants to .... where you are.

[@perennial-garden]

@@PlantRelated Super great suggestions! It all depends on where you are for sure! 🥰

[@andreabriem853]

@@perennial-garden minimum the half side of my garden is shaded by trees. There are big mapel and birch trees with big shrubs under this outside my fence, that shaded from south the half garden. If we have a hot and dry summer we are the winner! The year before last year i take all my hosta, astilbe and hydrangeas in a new bed under this trees and they rooted in very well. I weed the nettles and blackberrys in this corner the whole year and i am verry happy. But this year the slugs make war in this place. All my hosta are damaging by the slugs, my hydrangas take dead leaves by the last frost. Ok, with the frost that happens sometimes. But i have a new vision for this place. The hosta will be better in big potts (6 hosta with a squaremeter wide), secured mostly of the slugs. But what can i plant in the big holes without Hostas? Ferns will be nice, but i will have some blooms or nice foliage in there

[@andreabriem853]

@@PlantRelated i am from germany, there are not so much options. Options that are not eaten by slugs!!

[@theproperty541]

How funny is it that we were just talking about Calendula I saved from a cemetery and here we are now in the cemetery garden where Lars works! What a strange Coincidence!

[@perennial-garden]

🥰 we get lots of seeds and cuttings from this garden. It’s the largest one in our municipality. Altho I do have to keep an eye on Lars and make sure he’s not bringing home everything 😅

[@theproperty541]

@@perennial-gardenoh good! Nice to know I am not the only “grave robber”!

[@perennial-garden]

@@theproperty541 In that case, we've robbed supermarket parking lots, doctor's offices, and the city hall multiple times 🤣

[@theproperty541]

@@perennial-gardenI love it!! I just noticed some amazing holly hocks down at the community center and I am planning on snagging some seeds soon.

[@perennial-garden]

@@theproperty541 The best kind of 'stealing' 🤣 AND...if that hollyhock could talk, it would thank you for it!

[@kotsifou]

'Well, now you won't get a flower from that one...' 🤣🤣🤣Btw, yellow and white anthemis grow in Crete everywhere like weeds. People literally treat them like weeds, uproot and throw them away cause around May time they will grow anywhere they can find a little bit of soil. It's interesting to see them incorporated in formal landscaping.

[@perennial-garden]

That's so interesting! And what a luxury problem to have :) haha They do grow wild here in Denmark, too -- a lot of people use them in wildflower gardens, meadows, etc... but nothing as prolific as weeds. I bet it's really pretty when they are in bloom though! We'll have to go see it one day.