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Create a Pollinator Garden at Your Nursery: An Emphasis on Monarch Butterflies

We realize that this type of article is a departure for FNN readers but feel that it is important for forest, conservation, and native plant nurseries to be good environmental stewards. In addition, establishing a pollinator garden at your nursery can be good for business, too. Demonstrating the role and beauty of native plants and their pollinators, particularly in a small garden setting, might be a way to improve sales. The plight of pollinators has been in the news a lot lately, and many species of bees, butterflies and other insect pollinators, as well as bats and birds that pollinate, are in serious trouble.


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Author(s): Thomas D. Landis, R. Kasten Dumroese, Matthew E. Horning

Publication: Forest Nursery Notes - 2014 Summer