Early Summer 2025 Snapshots From Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Garden
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Collapse ▲Cooperative Extension’s Pollinator Paradise Demonstration Garden was created in late 2008 at Chatham Mills in Pittsboro to provide forage from early spring to late fall for pollinators such as native bees, honey bees, wasps, butterflies, flower flies, hummingbirds, beetles, and other beneficial insects. The garden features over 225 unique species of perennials, 85% of which are native to North Carolina. The garden is a great teaching tool that I use to conduct workshops and tours for hundreds of folks each year. It has taught me so much and I enjoy sharing this knowledge with others. Below you can see photos of the pollinator garden from mid-June through mid-July.
Click here for links to all the seasonal photo collections
Bumble bee on blazing star (Liatris spicata). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Variegated fritillary butterfly laying an egg on purple passionflower vine (Passiflora incarnata). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Tiny early instar variegated fritillary caterpillar on purple passionflower vine. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Appalachian mountain mint, culver’s root, whorled tickseed. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Culver’s root, Appalachian mountain mint, and whorled tickseed. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) and prairie poppy mallow (Callirhoe involucrata). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pipevine swallowtail caterpillars on Dutchman’s pipe (Aristolochia tomentosa). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Pipevine swallowtail caterpillars on Dutchman’s pipe. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Bumble bee on culver’s root (Veronicastrum virginicum). Photo by Debbie Roos.
One of the garden beds in early July. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Syrphid fly on beautyberry bloom (Callicarpa americana). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Hoary skullcap with staghorn sumac. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Bumble bee on hoary skullcap (Scutellaria incana). Photo by Debbie Roos.
One of the many parking lot islands in the pollinator garden. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Great golden digger wasp foraging on hoary mountain mint (Pycnanthemum incanum). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Red rose mallow (Hibiscus coccineus) loves the rain! Photo by Debbie Roos.
Eastern tiger swallowtail on joe-pye weed (Eutrochium dubium). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Hoary skullcap, ‘Jeana’ phlox, and coneflowers. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Skipper nectaring on bottlebrush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Clubbed mydas fly on mountain mint. Often confused with wasps, mydas flies lay their eggs in soil or rotting wood and the larvae prey on beetle larvae. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Bumble bees and late figwort (Scrophularia marilandica). Photo by Debbie Roos.
Potter wasp on late figwort. Photo by Debbie Roos.
Silver spotted skippers on buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis). Photo by Debbie Roos.
For more information:
Pollinator Paradise Garden website
What’s in Bloom in the Pollinator Garden – updated bi-weekly!