POLLINATOR PLANTS

Dame’s rocket

Hesperis matronalis

Dame’s rocket was introduced from Europe as an ornamental plant and has spread through much of North America (except for a handful of states in the Deep South), where it can now be found in meadows, woodland edges, thickets, vacant lots, edges of yards and flower gardens. It is considered weedy and invasive in many areas, so plant with caution. Lenora controls its spread by simply cutting the spent flower stems before the seeds mature. She includes it because its extremely fragrant flowers attract all sorts of bees, moths and butterflies to her garden. The flowers can be purple, blue or white, and the stalks bloom from the bottom up.

Perennial Blooms: Four-petaled flowers in white, lavender or purple in midspring Light: Full sun to part shade Soil: Average or moist, well-drained Size: 1 to 3 ft. tall, 1 to 2 ft. wide Cold hardy: USDA zones 3 to 8 Source: Select Seeds, selectseeds.com

Colewort

Crambe cordifolia

Few other plants look quite like statuesque heirloom colewort. It’s majestic, cabbagelike