If you want to learn more about native plants for summer color, visit the arboretum at 6206 Oleander Drive, Wilmington, to see these plant performers for yourself.

The emphasis given to fostering pollinators has, however, also exacerbated a conflict already rife among gardeners. Fans of native plants began to assert that their plants, which co-evolved with the ...

Culver's root is one species where some pollinators preferred a “nativar,” or a deliberately selected, crossbred or hybrid variation of a native species. (iStock) Perspective by Tovah Martin ...

To Portlander Kim Brown — an ecologist, master melittologist (study of bees) with the Oregon Bee Atlas and secretary of the Native Plant Society of Oregon — those strips of grass are a canvas waiting ...

It is in a native plant’s nature to be beneficial to our environment. "Pollinators keep everything going in our ecosystem," Tim Johnson of Native Plant Trust said. "They pollinate 85% of our plants.

It is in a native plant’s nature to be beneficial to our environment."Pollinators keep everything going in our ecosystem," Tim Johnson of Native Plant Trust said. "They pollinate 85% of our plants.

A 2006 report credits insects with conducting at least $57 billion in business by pollinating plants. The need for native pollinators is especially true in an urban setting.

North Branch Land Trust will hold a public conservation event, Plants for Pollinators, from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at Evergreen WB, 27 E. Northampton St., Wilkes-Barre, at a cost of $30.