The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Thriving Pollinator Garden

We encourage you to buy plants locally, but if they're not available - buy pollinator plants online and have them shipped right you your door.

Thank you for your interest in supporting your local pollinator populations! Each one of us can make a difference in our own gardens and communities, and collectively, we can create global impact. 

We have gathered our best resources about pollinators here in one place for easy reference. Each of the links below contains a wealth of information and inspiration, and we encourage you to explore them all. 

Find the Best Pollinator Garden Plants

Learn About Supporting Pollinators

Discover how you can make a meaningful impact on the health of pollinators through thoughtful gardening practices. Explore our guides for detailed information on creating lively habitats that attract and sustain hummingbirds, butterflies, and other vital pollinators:

• Protecting Our Pollinators Through Responsible Growing Practices - Understand how sustainable gardening practices can safeguard pollinator populations.

• Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden - Learn the best strategies for making your garden a welcoming place for butterflies.

• Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Landscape - Discover what draws hummingbirds into the garden and which plants they'll be looking for.

• Plant Community of Habitat Plants - Build a thriving habitat by strategically combining insect- and animal-friendly annuals, perennials and shrubs.

• Creating Wildlife-Friendly Gardens - Get insights into integrating wildlife-friendly practices in your garden to support a diverse ecosystem.

Looking for more? This is where you'll find a comprehensive list of articles about annuals, perennials, and shrubs that benefit pollinating bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. See all pollinator gardening articles.

Videos: Gardening for Pollinators

Here, you'll find numerous videos from our YouTube channel and from our friends and partners, all focused on gardening for pollinators.

Container Recipes for Your Pollinator Garden

Many annual flowers are attractive to pollinating bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Explore the container garden recipes linked below which include one or more of those plants to bring pollinators right up onto your porch or patio.

• Explore recipes featuring bidens for bees
• Explore recipes featuring Superbells^® calibrachoa
• Explore recipes featuring Vermillionaire^® Cuphea
• Explore recipes featuring Luscious^® Lantana
• Explore recipes featuring Supertunia^® petunias
• Explore recipes featuring Rockin'^® or Unplugged^® Salvia
• Explore recipes featuring Suncredible^® sunflowers
• Explore recipes featuring Mojave^® Portulaca
• Explore recipes featuring verbena

More pollinator container recipes

Pollinator Gardening on Proven Beauty

Do you know about beauty.provenwinners.com? This inspiring website is filled with garden project ideas, DIY tutorials and more. Many of the topics featured in our Gardener's Idea Book are covered here. Below are links to some of the pollinator garden information you'll find on Proven Beauty.

• How To Keep Mason Bees
• Pollinator Projects
• Cultivating a Bird-Friendly Garden
• Pollinator Garden Recipes with Annuals
• Make a Bird or Butterfly Bath from Colocasia Leaves

Pollinator Idea Boards

Idea boards work a lot like Pinterest, but all of your ideas will be saved for you right here at provenwinners.com. You can create as many idea boards as you'd like, and save ideas from our suggested idea boards as a springboard for inspiration. Here are a few we've created on pollinator gardening. 

• Yellow Plants for Bees
• Waterwise Butterfly Combination
• Red Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds
• Pollinator Plants at the Beekman 1802 Farm
• Native Plant Butterfly Combination
• Make It Hot Butterfly Combination
• Cool Hues Butterfly Combination
• Attract Monarch Butterflies
• Butterfly Container Companions 

Southern Gardens with Norman Winter

Do you garden in the South? Our southern gardening expert, Norman Winter, shares his favorite pollinator plants with you in these articles.

• Peak Pollinator Season is Here
• Hosting Pollinators Is a Thing of Beauty