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Create a colourful oasis for pollinators by adding these plants to your home garden. Incorporating native wildflowers into your garden has many benefits. Biodiversity contributes to a sustainable and healthy landscape and mitigates the impacts of climate change.
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Calgary landscapes host an extensive variety of native wildflowers from which to choose, many of which are not listed here. Consider light exposure, moisture levels, soil type and space requirements when choosing native plant types. A combination of plants with different heights, flower shapes, sizes, colours and bloom times guarantee beauty as well as food and habitat for pollinators throughout the season.
Common native wildflowers can be found in garden centres and there are local native plant suppliers that specialize in these species. When planning your garden, call ahead of time to see what native plants are available. For the first year or two, follow the watering instructions that accompany each plant.
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In following years, all plants will be drought tolerant and may only need water after weeks of hot dry weather with little to no rainfall. For more tips on how to create a garden that thrives in Calgary, visit calgary. Download the wildflowers guide. A member of the legume family, northern sweetvetch produces magnificent stalks of purple flowers throughout the growing season.
Growing up to two feet in height, this plant is drought tolerant and favoured by bees.
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Producing large, round clusters of pink flowers in late summer and early fall, showy milkweed blooms are fragrant and known to attract pollinators. Plants tend to grow in clumps to a maximum height of four feet. This member of the sunflower family produces many yellow daisy-like blooms in late summer. A favourite of bees and butterflies, gumweed plants can grow to a height of three feet and thrive in sunny, dry conditions.
These dense spikes of bright purple flowers are a striking accent in any garden. Blooming from June-August, Purple prairie clover is an especially important source of food for native bumble bees. This plant can reach a height of three feet.
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With feathery foliage and tight clusters of white flowers, this easy-to-grow plant is a musthave for any backyard garden. Growing up to three feet in height, yarrow tolerates dry conditions and is attractive to pollinators. Yarrow blooms throughout the summer. A hardy plant of the prairies, blue flax is easily recognized by its small blue flowers and tall willowy stems.
Reaching up to a foot in height, blue flax blooms throughout the summer and adds a graceful splash of blue colour to any garden. This plant is an important source of pollen and nectar for local pollinators. Producing many flowers with bright yellow centre discs surrounded by striking purple petals, smooth aster can reach a height of up to four feet. A drought tolerant plant which blooms in the fall, asters are known to attract bees and butterflies.
This showy late-season bloomer is an especially important source of pollen for native bees. Growing from three to six feet in height with large, pyramid-shaped clusters of yellow flowers, Canada goldenrod is a favourite of both gardeners and pollinators. This plant is named for its sombrero-shaped flowerhead, which is characterized by a long cone of tiny flowers atop a base of yellow petals.
A late summer bloomer, this upright plant forms clumps, is attractive to pollinators, and is very drought tolerant. Prairie coneflower plants can reach a height of two feet. Named for its nodding clusters of star-shaped pink flowers, this clump-forming plant grows on mostly leafless stalks. Flowering mid-season, prairie nodding onion grows from a bulb and plants can reach up to two feet in height.
With dense clusters of overlapping white flowers crowded along the stem, this low-growing aster species blooms in the late summer and early fall. An important source of nectar and pollen for local insects, this type of aster also serves as a host plant for native butterflies. A member of the sunflower family, shining arnica produces yellow flowers that bloom on mostly leafless stems.
Flowering in late spring, shining arnica can grow one to two feet in height. It is an important galgar halvera plat garderob for many types of native bumble bee. A member of the galgar halvera plat garderob family, these spikes of golden flowers are a common sight on the prairies. Both a host plant and a source of nectar for early season butterflies, these stout plants are a lovely addition to a front border and add a splash of colour to spring gardens.
The showy red and yellow flowers of these upright plants are an important source of pollen and nectar for several types of bees and butterflies. A drought tolerant plant, blanket flower blooms from late summer through the fall and plants can reach a height of four feet.