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POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR
Working on a pollinator garden? These plants are a must!
2020 Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year: Gregg’s mistflower
The votes are in for 2020's Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner is...Gregg's mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica, its lesser known pollinator plant colleague. The final tally as of 10 PM Feb. 1? Gregg's mistflower 127, Frostweed 105. "Many people still don’t know about Gregg's mistflower," said Lee Marlowe, sustainable landscape ecologist at the San Antonio River Authority (SARA) and 2020 president of San [...]
2019 Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year: Cowpen Daisy
Attention citizen gardeners! We need your help in creating demand for an unsung hero of the pollinator garden, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides. To get this plant some well-deserved attention, we're naming it "San Antonio's unofficial pollinator plant of the year" for 2019. Local nurseries and growers often cite a lack of demand as the reason many native plants are commercially unavailable. Let's create the demand. Monarch butterfly on Cowpen Daisy in downtown San Antonio pollinator garden. Photo by Monika [...]
