Plants for Beneficial Predator Insects

Wild Bergamot is one of the best pollinator plants a garden can have. Its gorgeous flowers are often surrounded by a cloud of insects of all sizes,...

One of the best native plants for the garden. It attracts a diverse group of bees and butterflies, is sturdy and upright, and is a clumping perenni...

Rose Milkweed isn't just our favorite milkweed in the garden, it's adaptable to many soil conditions, gorgeous, and it's also - along with Common M...

Common Milkweed has big, broad leaves and pretty pink globe-shaped flower clusters. In June, it draws a diverse group of pollinators. It's also rig...

This woodland Joe Pye is an amazingly versatile plant. It can take full sun or shade, wet or dry soil. It can grow up to 7 feet tall, so if you hav...

These plants offer beautiful lavender-hued blooms in the fall and are fantastic in the garden. They do have a tendency to flop over, so it would ma...

A native of western North America, but a great garden plant here in the east. Gaillardia attracts many native pollinators, but primarily bumblebees...

Aptly named, Showy Goldenrod also brings the pollinators in droves for the fall. Along with the asters, goldenrods are keystone plant species and s...

A beautiful plant with reddish-purple stems and sprays of small white flowers. An absolute powerhouse pollinator food source - it attracts the most...

A well-behaved garden plant beloved by native bees and butterflies. Beginning in May, it's one of the first wildflower plants to bloom after the sp...

Hollow Joe Pye is the giant among Joe Pye species, reaching up to 10 or more feet in moist soil conditions that it favors, with a dome of small pin...

Golden Alexander blooms in late spring and is the native host plant for Black Swallowtail butterflies in their caterpillar stage. It sports a numbe...

Blazing Star plants are a graceful presence in the garden, slender and vertical, they take up little horizontal space, but command the eye when in ...

A lovely woodland denizen that grows to three or four feet and elegantly drapes itself on other plants. Very well-behaved in the garden and a wonde...