Guest post: Bring Pollinators to Your Garden

Spring is here and it really is a great time to install pollinator-friendly plants in your garden. Here’s an article from PartSelect’s new Lifestyle Blog: Plant a Pollinator-Friendly Garden: Tips to Attract Hummingbirds and More!

Most gardeners realize how important natural pollinators are for our gardens. When it comes to human food and survival, pollinators such as bees, butterflies, wasps, flies, bats, hummingbirds, and so forth can be called true heroes. After all, pollinated flowers produce food: fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. In addition, the seeds hold the future for those plant species.

So exactly how important are pollinators? Well, according to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, about thirty-five percent of the entire world’s food crops depend on insects and animals, and three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants rely on natural pollinators for their very survival. That makes pollinators extremely important.

To read the rest of this article, click here: Plant a Pollinator-Friendly Garden: Tips to Attract Hummingbirds and More!

 And here are some great infographics that PartSelect put together!

Source: Partselect.com