Pollinator Gardening info

 These days pollinator gardening is popular, and people are looking for help to do it right. For that reason I'm writing to say that Heather Holm is one great resource! 

Here is a summary of Heather's recommendations from a webinar she did for the PA Master Gardeners

Heather Holm’s Top Gardening Activities to Support Native Bees

And here are two Heather Holm's books I highly recommend (note these are Amazon.com links the books are available in many places!)

Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants - paperback

Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide - paperback

and also the Xerces Society for Insect conservation is another great resource!

A few of the  Xerces Society's Books I have in my library.

Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide, Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies -paperback

100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive  -paperback

   Xerces has more books about butterflies etc. that I haven't read.

Photo of a female a species green sweat bee, (Agapostemon sericeus) courtesy of the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from their Bees of Maryland Album on Flickr