Best plants for pollinators! Northeast native plants for pollinators and how else to support them.

Create buzz in your garden by using these northeast native plants that are magnets for pollinators! Plants discussed will support bees, butterflies, and other insects from early spring through late fall, not just during the height of summer. In addition to using the right plants, you will learn about the actions you need to take to support pollinators year-round. This video will help gardeners in the northeast and Mid-Atlantic create habitats that support our insects.

[@annejacobs1115]

You are the most informative expert on NJ Natives. Your encouragement and service is angelic. Thanks!

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thanks for commenting, I understand that people are busy and try to provide the most useful information in the shortest time possible.

[@zabalaan]

0:28 Summer sweet 2:02 Annise hysop 3:36 Blunt mountain mint 5:35 Joe Pye 6:00 Plants bloom different seasons 6:50 Willows 7:10 Blueberrys 8:17 Fall flowers, asters, goldenrods

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thank you for helping viewers find the right spot in the video!

[@TechTimeWithEric]

I just discovered your channel. I live in a trailer park in the woods of South Jersey and now that I’ve been here a bit I want to build a nice pollinator garden in my yard. Thanks for the great information. I didn’t even think about blueberries

[@emmafox4069]

Hollies are a MAGNET, no joke. I was shocked the first time I saw how many bees were on it last spring.

[@NativePlantChannel]

Yes, the amount of activity around their flowers is incredible!

[@renatamanzoscruggs]

Thank you for the informative video. I live in Virginia on a lake where native plants are encouraged. So hard to find them locally, though. Keep making the videos please!

[@hioyas]

I have been seeing less and less bumblebees, butterflies, and fireflies in my neighborhood. Native plants are beautiful. I have planted so many native plants only to have it being pulled out by my families and neighbors. They see it as weeds. You need to make more video and educate the public. Thank you.

[@angobansoar8174]

Greetings from Ireland. A brilliant series of videos. Thanks for all the information and ideas. P.S. - You are a very beautiful young lady.

[@NativePlantChannel]

Wow, Ireland! I don't think any of these plants will help you but thanks for watching!

[@anfearmor9616]

​@@NativePlantChannel Thanks for the reply. I had lots of Asters and Salvias last year. they were totally alive with Bees. Am trying a good few other plants i have seen here, and sure if they fail, it is the price of a packet of seeds. Just love these type of videos. Thanks.

[@NewEnglandReptile]

Great info, thank you !

[@jeffburke170]

deserve 100x more views!

[@kellymetichecchia6050]

Beautiful garden and very informative! Can't wait to make my own garden for pollinators. Thank you!

[@plantsrcool228]

I love me some anise hyssop and blunt mountain mint. The mountain mint just started blooming last week or so, and the activity on them is beyond compare!

[@johncornell7103]

Very nice

[@marieneilon7360]

This video was awesome, I love the presenter’s energy! Will definitely subscribe

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thank you! So happy to hear from viewers who find the videos helpful!

[@heavymechanic2]

Hi, I built up several boxes of honeybees, planted clover, fruit trees, blueberries, honeyberries, anise hyssop, sunflowers and other various plants as food sources for pollinators. I planted buckwheat in the grass along the road and the neighbor chopped it down stating it was weeds. Even growing lavender in containers, hybrid coneflower has not attracted the bees. Going to grow some Mountain Mint over the winter to transplant because it looks like a winner. .

[@alicebierhorst6712]

Love you, Lourdes!

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi Alice thanks so much for commenting and for using native plants!

[@karendurston2528]

Thanks for this channel. I’ve been enjoying it and it inspires me. Thank you for all you are doing too!!

[@patament4520]

Great video Thanks so much for caring and providing us with this information

[@annszymanski2369]

Wonderful video. Great information. Thanks!

[@kitty4tify]

Please show us how to deadhead? Thank you for your wonderful and positive videos.

[@MmYummerz]

I have a garden I’m trying to take care of and this is amazing content.

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi Brandon, thanks for commenting and for taking care of a garden. I hope Native Plant Channel will encourage you to use native plants!

[@donbirkholz6842]

Interesting video until the part about not disturbing the leaves. I pile leaves on my strawberries in November and take them off in late April (when the bees are busily pollinating my black currants and fruit trees.) I also plant sunflowers, catmint, Mexican sunflowers, melons, etc for the bees. Last year there was an article on the internet that said don't clean up your garden until the temperature is constantly above 50 degrees or you wouldn't have any pollinators. Nonsense, of course. And if I wait until temps are constantly above 50 degrees, (mid July), I might as well quit gardening. I guess all these seed packets that say "plant as early as soil can be worked" should be ignored. I am going to eat lettuce in late May and not wait until mid August as your advice suggests.

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thanks for commenting, Native Plant Channel is focused on growing native plants to improve our ecosystems, your interest is in growing food which is a different topic.

[@edwardwrenn4850]

I found this wonderful channel and have enjoyed a few of the videos including the very helpful one on species vs cultivar natives.. I am establishing a native plant ecosystem in Pittsburgh, PA. I just had a goldfinch visit for the first time and am hoping for ruby-throated hummingbirds and Monarchs, etc. soon. Thanks!

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thanks Edward! Goldfinches are so beautiful!

[@katrinamajoros6798]

Some favorites for gold finches are echinacea and liatris...they love the seeds

[@timgleason2527]

My local Audubon Society (Juniata Valley) had a bunch of PA natives in partnership with a local nursery. Got a bunch yesterday!

[@bellecraig]

Hi, I have a question about the fall leaves; I know you shouldn't burn, mulch (shred) or remove them completely, but I was wondering if it's okay to gently blow them to the very back of a yard against my fence? I live in a city with strict ordinances and they don't allow us to leave our fall leaves laying in the yard, they have to be removed (or otherwise out of sight). If I used a rake to rake them to the back yard up against my back fence I'm afraid the tines of the rake would either injure or disturb the larva and other pollinators, so I was wondering if it might be less disruptive if I gently blew them using a leaf blower to the back fence while the leaves are dry and very light so they would fly across the yard as if it were a stiff breeze blowing them?

[@emangthuso4383]

Than you

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi Emang, thanks for commenting! I hope it is helpful in bringing pollinators to your garden!

[@zullylozano1840]

I love learning about our native plants, thanks for the video. Which plants would you recommend for dry, part shade?

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi Zully, thank you for the positive comment. Here are some plants for dry shade: asters, geranium maculatum, false solomon’s seal, crooked stem goldenrod, Christmas fern, marginal wood fern, native pachysandra

[@shawnfellows5306]

What a wonderful and informative video! I would like to suggest that you include a list of the plants you discussed in your video description as many people like myself are bad note takers. I will watch again with a notepad. Again, wonderful video! :) Do you recommend a particular plant for the end of May through June?

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thanks for commenting, I try to include the common and scientific names of plants in most videos.

[@xBlackSunshinex]

Great video! Do you propagate the mountain mint? I'm also in New Jersey (Bergen County) zone 7a and would love to get my hands on a starter plant or seeds of that variety for my pollinator garden.

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi Jonathan, I don't propagate it, but check native plant sales for it. Good luck!

[@smithwessonoil1622]

I know this is an old comment but Everwilde is an amazing source for native seeds if you're still wondering where to get various seeds. Joyful Butterfly is great for butterfly attracting native seeds too.

[@anabenitez1021]

Great information. What Joe Pye weed do you recommend for a small garden?

[@planttasticcookinggardenin1561]

I’ve grown baby Joe successfully. It stays under 3 ft in my garden but does like a lot of water 💦

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi Ana, hyssop leaved boneset, Eupatorium hyssopifolium, which blooms in white, is probably the better choice for smaller gardens.

[@phyllisstevens1876]

Yea

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thanks, I hope the information was helpful!

[@College-Bball-Gambler]

Autumn Joy Sedum is a great late season pollinator plant. Always covered in bumblebees, honey bees, Carpenter bees, and skippers

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi Brady, thanks for commenting. Please note that Sedum 'Autumn Joy' is native to Asia, not the northeastern US.

[@SMElder-iy6fl]

I'm doing my best but my next-door neighbors spray for mosquitoes. I've seen almost no butterflies this summer. I quit planting host plants when the neighbors started spraying, but I don't know if this spraying is keeping the butterflies away or not. Don't waste your time telling me to talk to them. I've tried already.

[@bexnewt]

You can still plant your garden! In doing so, you may inspire others to try native plants - and insects need their help, too :)