Greening

Carlington Loves Pollinators

Be a lazy gardener

First of all, fall and spring clean-ups are a lot of work.  Secondly, by cleaning up  your yard in the fall or the spring, you destroy insect habitats.  Bees and wasps lay their eggs inside stems, butterflies and butterfly cocoons overwinter in your dead fall leaves, even a small brush pile is insect habitat.

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From Berit Erickson’s website:

• Leave the Leaves
• Pollinator garden spring clean-up
• Almost mulch-free
• Creating nest sites for ground-nesting bees
• And nest sites for cavity-nesting bees