In this video, Christine Metzler gives us a tour of her early spring garden, where she is using milk-jug greenhouses to stratify native pollinator seeds. If you are interested in learning more about creating your own native pollinator garden, here are some great resources from Christine:
Here are a few of the people, organizations, and groups that got me into gardening with native plants. Since I wanted to grow native plants, and most of them need a period with cold temperatures to grow (stratification), I started with winter sowing.
Dr. Doug Tallamy inspired a movement to restore biodiversity at home. Recognized by Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, and The Garden Club of America, Tallamy is a leading voice in conservation.
https://homegrownnationalpark.org/
Dr. Robert Gegear is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. His research interests include the conservation of native pollination systems, floral evolution, and bumblebee ecology. I refer to his list a lot when I think about plant choices:
https://gegearlab.weebly.com/plant-list.html
Wild Seed Project in Maine sells native seeds, and has plenty of resources:
On a local level, there are Pollinator Pathways Groups, I get a lot of my seeds from my local group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mysticcharlespollinators
We have the Native Plant Trust in Framingham:
https://www.nativeplanttrust.org/
I learned a lot about winter sowing from this facebook group:
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