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Question: Is there a coneflower that would do well in CA zone 10a? Or a better yet which zone 9 coneflower could stand the heat?

Spotted lantern fly is back in NJ

My Gold Fortune Agastache hands down has the most diversity of pollinators. Both my Rudbeckia are about ready to open, the assorted Salvia are busy with bees and hummingbirds. The Mountain Mint really wants some rain but the Liatris is about half bloomed, I'm sure it wouldn't mind a shower either. Very dry in north Georgia!

Lavender and catmint very busy with bees in my garden at the moment. Still waiting on coneflower, liatris and butterfly bush to open flowers.

Best pollinators in Eastern Washington: Redbuds and black currants early in year, bee balm, goatsbeard, and hydrangeas in summer, and sunflowers in Fall. Goatsbeard and currants serve smaller pollinators like bee fly and hover fly.

The Bumblebees are all over my Heucheras and Echinacea right now. When my Firelight Tidbit Panicle Hydrangeas bloom, they will include those too!❤

...I can't be without salvias and cuphea 'vermillionaire'; hummingbirds are everyday residents in my backyard. I hear PW has a new cuphea introduction for 2025 -- salvia, too, I think. Switching gears, I hafta chuckle; what is it with gardeners and disdain for red in the garden?! I do love a classic red geranium -- hafta have a few every year. 🤷🏼‍♀️🙃 👩🏼‍🌾💚 =^..^= [MD, now 7a]

Love your beautiful garden! Greetings from Southern Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

We have a Striped Pipevine that the Pipevine Swallowtail "cats" are totally devouring. Hope to have some adult butterflies.

The bees like my Russian sage. The bumble bees like my may night salvia and catmint. I planted ruby coneflowers specifically for the pollinators. But I have yet to see them on it. With the rabbits wanting to eat them, they may not be worth growing.

We have several germanders (Teucrium chamaedrys) and when they're in bloom the pollinators go nuts for it. Easily their favorite thing in the yard.

My favorite polinating plant that the Bee's are all over is Monarda citriodora aka Lemon beebalm. The Bee's love the lambada bee balm too but I'm partial to the dark lavender tall flower column of Lemon beebalm. Gorgeous plant!!!

Anise hyssop is hands down all the pollinators favorite in my garden. I see things on there that I didn't know existed.

Anise hyssop is a big winner for me, and plumbago. Bumbles love both!

I absolutely love ❤️ all the information you put on your channel. You and Stef are great. Thank you so much! You have so much knowledge that you share to your viewers. ❤️💕❤️💕

Right now mines a patch of common milkweed that’s in full flower and the pollinators love it and it perfumes the air with what I can only describe as a combo of a lilac and a peony fragrance. It’s contained within hardscape on 3 sides and the fourth side is a weekly maintained lawn there very happy in cultivation it’s almost 6 ft tall

My best pollinators here in Central Florida are my dwarf firebush shrubs (hamelia patens compacta) and my jatropha tree (jatropha integerrima).

I'm seeing pollinators on the hypericum, lamb's ear, blue sea holly, and Montana Minnie Goldenrod. Philly PA z7.

Our lavender started blooming and was initially covered entirely by bumblebees. It took a couple days for the honey bees to find it. Sometimes the bumblebees stop climbing around on the flowers and sit in one place for a while. Looks like they're on break.

I believe my mimosa tree blooms attract pollinators.

Your garden is looking great! Without a doubt Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) is the best in my garden.

I always think of Ice Breaker as a Christmas tree with snow on it. I have Horstmann’s Silberlocke Korean Fir after seeing it at Chanticleer. Love it.

Pollinators are enjoying the veronica, salvia, and lantana in my garden now.

Great video! Beautiful Candy butterfly bush! Right now the butterflies are addicted to my Marine heliotrope. 🦋

Slender mountain mint brings in a ton of pollinators. Plus, it’s foliage compliments many big leaves of other plants. Grows well in sun or shade, wet or dry, and doesn’t seed much or spread much. Very well behaved.

Hypericum densiflorum, Bushy St. John's Wort. I have three, small shrubs which have hundreds of flowers that are swarmed by all sorts of insects. The native bees are almost comical as they jump from flower to flower and roll around. One issue is that each flower is short lived so the plant, at any one time, is covered in buds, open flowers, and less pretty spent flowers. Earlier this spring, my Nyssa sylvatica, Wildfire Blackgum, was a raucous pollinator party!

Haas Halo hydrangea and white calamintha nepeta always beat my salvia, agastache, etc. in terms of total drunken pollinator frenzy!

Right now, the coneflowers, agastache, bee balm, and butterfly bushes are the most popular at my house. I need to plant some salvia that blooms later. I have several plants but they're all bloomed out already. It seems like every plant and shrub in my garden is struggling in the heat/no rain here in Georgia, even things that normally do fine.

Good stuff, Jim. Right now, the Dropmore catmint and Major Wheeler honeysuckle vines are just crazy buzzing with bees and hummingbirds. As soon as they begin blooming, it will be the large stands of Pink Diamond hydrangeas, pink obedient plant liatris and black and blue salvias. Here in northeast Ohio, my b&b salvia actually survived our (milder) winter and returned from last year's roots. Impressed me.

Thank you Jim, and Stef. 🌿

For me, right now it's the St. John's Wort, Wild Bergamont, and Coneflowers that the pollinators are on. I've also got New England Aster blooming, which normally doesn't bloom and shouldn't bloom until mid-late August.

My big pollinator plant is salvia. Zone 9A Alabama.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful space with all of us!! I have a number of flowering plants ( in SC) but..my mountain mint popped open a few days ago and what a joy to watch the numbers of pollinators that take advantage this smorgasbord!! There are so many pollinators that the mint sways with the large numbers of the bees, wasps, hover flies...truly amazing!!

I want your address for open garden today. Is it on Harris?

Hi Jim and Steph. Your garden is looking lovely. In older tours of your front garden you had a very upright white blooming buddleia. I have not notice it in your current tours. Did the white blooming butterfly bush died or relocated? Thank you for sharing your lovely garden. I wish I could make it to your open house.

Phlox for me.

Russian sage is my top pollinator plant

Penstamon, liatris spicata, mountain mint, coneflower, bee balm. In short, natives and nativars have been the kings and queens of the garden ❤🐝🦋

Mountain mint at my house

Lavender is right now. Then Clethra followed by PeeGee Hydrangea.

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Similar experience to you in zone 6a Southern Ontario, Canada. Blue Fortune Agastache is #1 in my gardens, followed by a butterfly bush, tall sedums and multiple varieties of perennial Salvia & Catmint. Pollinators are very happy 💜 🦋 🐝 🌱 🌸

Wow! You have a wonderful mixture of pollinators. I am trying to catch up in my garden. 9A north FL

Joe Pye weed is full of every pollinator I can think of every year.

I have a cestrum as well and it is always covered in pollinators. Mine will grow 5-6 ft every year

I have all the same types of plants but the thing that is most visited are my vitex chaste trees. There is such a loud buzz from them for the longest period.

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Pollinators are loving my golden jubilee hyssop right now along with the usual coneflowers and nepetas.

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Great video! Now you’re speaking my language. How do you know when you bring plants in, that they haven’t been sprayed with pesticides or herbicides? Do you contact the growers? I don’t want to hurt the bees.