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find them visiting these and other blossoms
You don’t need a prairie or large lot like catmint, sweet alyssum and perennial
to attract and support pollinators. A geranium.
meadow or informal, formal and even Include spring, summer and fall
container gardens can bring in bees, bloomers to keep pollinators visiting and
butterflies and hummingbirds to help well fed throughout the season. You’ll
pollinate plants. It’s just a matter of enjoy the seasonal changes along with the
selecting the right plants, adjusting color and motions the visitors provide.
your maintenance practices, and Include early spring perennials and bulbs to
skipping the pesticides. attract visitors in early spring as they search
Create your garden by converting a for much-needed food. Add fall flowers to
few square feet of lawn, garden bed or help prepare them for winter or migration
front yard into a pollinator-friendly to their winter homes. Those in milder
garden. You may want to start by climates will want to add some pollinator-
switching out part of an existing garden friendly flowers to support and attract
or container to more pollinator- pollinators wintering in their backyard.
friendly flowers. Plant flowers in groups for greater design
Expand your planting options by impact and to reduce the energy pollinators
converting a portion of your lawn into expend when gathering nectar and pollen
a pollinator garden. Outline the bed from one flower to the next. Provide plants
with a hose or rope. Remove the sod, with enough space to reach their mature
add compost as needed to improve size. Temporarily fill in voids with annuals
drainage and you’ll be ready to plant. like salvia, single zinnias and nicotiana that
Simplify and dress up your efforts by also attract pollinators.
using an easy-to-assemble raised Don’t let all the plant and design
garden kit like the Pollinator Garden possibilities overwhelm you into in-action.
Bed (gardeners.com). Its long-lasting Gardener’s Supply Company has plans
cedar planks slide into aluminum for designing gardens to attract bees,
corners to create a hexagonal bed. Get
creative while increasing the garden’s butterflies and hummingbirds plus tips on
size by adding additional sections to keeping them safe in your garden.
create a honeycomb or other interesting Mulch the soil with leaves annually. It
design. suppresses weeds, conserves moisture,
Mark the outline of the raised bed improves the soil and provides homes for
you select. Cut the grass short and many beneficial insects.
cover with newspaper. Set your raised
bed in place and fill with a quality Allow healthy plants and grasses to
planting mix. Mulch four to six inches stand for winter. These provide homes for Melinda Myers has written more than 20 contributing editor for Birds &
surrounding the raised bed for ease of many beneficial insects and food for birds. gardening books, including Small Space Blooms magazine and was commissioned by
mowing and to eliminate the need to Wait as long as possible to clean up your Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses Gardeners Supply for her expertise to write
hand trim. How to Grow Anything DVD series and this article. Her web site
Once your planting bed is prepared, garden in spring. If needed, pile clippings the Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio
you’re ready to plant. Include single out of the way to allow beneficial insects to segments. Myers is a columnist and is www.MelindaMyers.com.
daisy-like black-eyed Susans, escape these winter homes once
coneflowers, and asters that allow temperatures warm. Then shred and
visiting insects to rest and warm when compost the plant debris in summer. Meals On Wheels How you can help- By volunteering a
sipping on nectar or dining on pollen. As your gardens flourish, you will few hours of your time, by referring our
Add a few tubular flowers for want to create more pollinator-friendly services to those in need, and by
butterflies and hummingbirds. They contributing and encouraging
both like bright colors and can be seen spaces. Your efforts will be rewarded with organizations and friends to make
visiting salvias, penstemon and beautiful flowers, increased harvest and the contributions.
nasturtiums. And don’t forget the bees added color and motion these visitors You can donate on our website
that are attracted to bright white, provide. www.lahabramealsonwheels.org
Or mail a check to:La Habra Meals
on Wheels, 101 W. La Habra Blvd, La
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O O O O ONENE P PERSONERSON C CANAN Volunteer at the Habra, CA 90631.
If you know someone in need of
La Habra Meals on Wheels is a non-
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M M M M MAKEAKE A D A DIFFERENCEIFFERENCE Food Center profit, volunteer organization assistance and live outside of La Habra,
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Foothill Unity Center, Inc. providing meals for a nominal fee to please contact your local city services
Older Adults offer more to 415 West Chestnut Avenue, homebound residents living in La for information. We have found similar
the world each and every day Monrovia, Ca 91016 Habra & La Habra Heights. Meals are services in most areas.
in many different ways. 626.358.3486 prepared by a local vendor and are Meals on Wheels began as
Share your knowledge, information@foothillunitycenter.org delivered by our friendly volunteers
your experiences, your www.foothillunitycenter.org between 11:00am-12:00pm Monday a pilot program in 1965
through Friday.
compassion and contribute to Nonprofit Corporation under section To begin services contact our office based on a study done in
making this country the best 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code Monday through Friday between 8am- 1961 regarding food
place to live. 1pm at 562-383-4221. delivery for the elderly.
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