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       By Melinda Myers                   yellow, blue and ultraviolet colors. You’ll                   21234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567  123456789012345678901234567890121234567890123456  7
                                          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
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