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Native Solitary Bees: Don’t Make Your Landscape Too Tidy This Fall

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Cooler evening temperatures might have you switching gears from planting and maintaining your landscape to fall decorating and garden cleanup chores. While cleaning up diseased and pest-infested plants in your yard and garden are important to prevent problems in the…

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What’s the deal with butterfly bushes: Good or bad for pollinators?

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The summer is slowly leaving us, with many of us starting to harvest the last wave of vegetables and enjoying the beautiful late summer flowers. At this time of the year, I like to review what happened in the peak…

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What’s humming in your garden?

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The summer is here, and one of the big pluses of it is that it brings a bunch of new visitors to our region, some of which are the whimsical and hungry hummingbirds! In today’s post we’ll talk about these…

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Swarms, Swarms, and More Honeybee Swarms!

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On May 12, Nancy Allred, Interim Master Gardener Coordinator, Anne Arundel Co. called to say that one of the two Master Gardener Beekeeping Project hives at Hancock’s Resolution Park in Pasadena had swarmed. Swarming is the natural process that a…

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What should I plant to help pollinators?

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We all want to protect pollinators and it seems that the best way to do that is to have a lot of flowers so they can feed on them. But if you’ve ever checked a seed catalog or visited a…

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Why Do Pollinators Visit Flowers? Hint: It’s Not Just for Nectar and Pollen

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Other than because I think they are pretty, I love looking at plants and their flowers. In fact, one of my pastimes has become figuring where and what is the reward that pollinators get out of their visits to their…

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Carpenter Bees Are Native Pollinators

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A sure sign of spring is the emergence of carpenter bees. Have you seen the perfectly circular small holes that these bees chew into wood? I mean honestly, I have trouble drawing a perfect circle freehand, much less chewing one!  …

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