Breeding Flowers & Saving Seed for MY POLLINATOR GARDEN

Early Summer

What’s Buzzing

  • Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
  • Easter Tiger Swallowtail
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Gulf Fritillary

What’s Blooming:

  • Aquatic Milkweed (Asclepias perennis
  • Tropical Sage (Salvia coccinea)
  • Coreopsis lanceolata
  • Coreopsis leavenworthii
  • Partridge pea
  • Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Polyphemus

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Phaon Crescent

About

Buzzing Blossoms Garden is where I incorporate all of my interests, from macro photography to entomology to horticulture to woodworking, into one messy experiment. The end goal of this experiment is to have a suburban home garden that pollinators see as an island of food and a nursery where they can build families. I hope that the local bee, wasp, butterfly, and moth citizenry will fall madly in love with this region of Mandarin, Florida. How can they resist scintillating, nectar-rich flowers offered throughout the year? So, I’m on a mission to create the most irresistible flowers out there, ones that will make even the pickiest pollinators and gardeners alike swoon.

Buzzing Blossoms Garden

Monarch

Danaus plexippus

Taylor's Perfection (Camellia japonica)

Taylor’s Perfection

Camellia japonica

Mexican Sunflower

Tithonia rotundifolia

Yellow Jessamine

Queen Pure Orange

Zinnia elegans