Pollinator Garden Project

Pollinator gardens are designed to attract beneficial pollinators like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. It is considered best to use native plants that will replicate the natural habitat of these pollinators while providing host and nectar plants. These gardens play an important role in supporting pollinators since their populations have been declining. Hudson Crossing Park is planting native plants as a part of our Pollinator Garden Project. We have installed pollinator gardens at Eagle Point and the Play Garden using native flowers and grasses that will support our local pollinators. If you are interested in learning more about the plants or creating your very own pollinator garden, look at our list of native flowers. Be sure to look for pollinators visiting our gardens next time you visit!

Native Flowers

Common Yarrow

Common Yarrow has white or yellow flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts bees.

Swamp Milkweed

Swamp Milkweed has bright pink, white, and purple flowers that bloom in the fall. This plant attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

Common Milkweed

Common Milkweed has green, purple, or rarely white flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, beetles, and bugs.

Coneflower

Coneflower has a variety of flower colors that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.

Butterfly Milkweed

Butterfly Milkweed has orange, red, or sometimes yellow flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bugs, beetles, and bees.

Pearly Everlasting

Pearly Everlasting has white flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, beetles, and bugs.

Field Thistle

Field thistle has lavender, pink, or rarely white flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, bees and moths.

Hollow Joe-Pye Weed

Hollow Joe-Pye Weed has purple or pink fragrant flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies and bees.

Flat Topped Goldenrod

Flat Topped Goldenrod has pale to bright yellow flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and beetles.

Purple Joe-Pye Weed

Purple Joe-Pye Weed has pale pink to lavender flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies.

Bottle Gentian

Bottle Gentian has purple flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts bees.

Solomon’s Seal

Solomon’s Seal has white flowers that bloom in spring. This plant attracts bees and hummingbirds.

Woodland Sunflower

Woodland Sunflower has yellow flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies and bees.

Smooth Oxeye

Smooth Oxeye has yellow flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and other pollinators.

Cardinal Flower

Cardinal flower has red flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts hummingbirds.

Hairy Beardtongue

Hairy Beardtongue has lavender or pink flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.

Great Blue Lobelia

Great Blue Lobelia has blue flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts bees and hummingbirds.

Wild Lupine

Wild Lupine has blue, pink, or white flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies.

Wild Bergamot

Wild Bergamot has fragrant lavender flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.

Bush’s Poppy Mallow

Bush’s Poppy Mallow has magenta flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.

Spotted Beebalm

Spotted Beebalm has pale yellow flowers spotted with purple that bloom in the spring. This plant attracts bees and hummingbirds.

Obedient False Dragonhead

Obedient False Dragonhead has pink to lavender flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies.

Narrowleaf Mountain Mint

Narrowleaf Mountain Mint has white clustered flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, beetles, and other pollinators.

Showy Goldenrod

Showy Goldenrod has yellow flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and beetles.

Canada Goldenrod

Canada Goldenrod has yellow clustered flowers that bloom in the spring. This plant attracts butterflies and bees.

Gray Goldenrod

Gray Goldenrod has yellow clustered flowers that bloom in the fall. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, beetles, moths, wasps, and flies.

Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod

Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod has small yellow flowers that bloom in the fall. This plant attracts bees, beetles, wasps, and other pollinators.

Partridge Pea

Partridge Pea has yellow flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies and bees.

Heart-Leaved Aster

Heart-Leaved Aster has light blue, purple, or white flowers that boom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies.

Calico Aster

Calico Aster has white to pale purple flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts many pollinators.

New England Aster

New England Aster has pink to purple and yellow flowers that bloom in the fall. This plant attracts bees.

Smooth Blue Aster

Smooth Blue Aster has blue or purple flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, flies, and beetles.

New York Aster

New York Aster has purple and red to yellow flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and moths.

Blue Vervain

Blue Vervain has multiple purple or blue flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies and bees.

Culver’s Root

Culver’s Root has white, pink, or blue flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, moths, wasps, and flies.

Tall Coreopsis

Tall Coreopsis has yellow flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies and bees.

Golden Alexanders

Golden Alexanders have bright yellow clusters of flowers that bloom in the summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, wasps, and flies.

Sweet Black Eyed Susans

Sweet Black Eyed Susans have yellow flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies and bees.

Hoary Vervain

Hoary Vervain has purple or blue flowers that bloom in summer. This plant attracts butterflies, bees, flies, wasps, and beetles.

Giant Yellow Hyssop

Giant Yellow Hyssop has green or brown to yellow flowers. This plant attracts bees.