Here are the resource links from my talk at Saanich Seedy Saturday. Thanks again for such an awesome event! Island people are
the best. These are the bare bones of my resources, but I will keep
adding to this.
Saanich Native Plants: They have workshops and sell plants
and seeds. They are giving a workshop on the Garry Oak Ecosystem in April/May.
Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team: Their handbook has
garden plans in it that are fabulous for bees
Dr. Elizabeth Elle’s info for the Public
An article on Dr. Elle’s work on Vancouver Island
Habitat Acquisition Trust: Their brochure on native
gardening is the bee’s knees.
How to make a bumblebee box
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/nests_for_native_bees_fact_sheet_xerces_society.pdf
Rosemary at Willow Wood Farm on Vancouver Island sells many varieties of willows that are great for early spring forage for bees.
Rosemary at Willow Wood Farm on Vancouver Island sells many varieties of willows that are great for early spring forage for bees.
I also highly recommend Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC’s South Coast
By Maleea Acker, published by New Star Books. It’s such a
passionate and poetic celebration of the Garry Oak meadows.
Bombus occidentalis Plant List Garry Oak
Ecosystem
Early Flowering (from March)
yellow
glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum)
white
fawn lily (Erythronium oregonum)
pink
fawn lily (Erythronium revolutum)
red-flowering
currant (Ribes sanguineum)
broad-leaved
shootingstar (Dodecatheon hendersonii)
sea
blush (Plectritis congesta)
spring-gold
(Lomatium utriculatum)
Oregon
grape (Mahonia aquifolium)
Mid-Season April-July
arbutus
(Arbutus menziesii) a great tree for
bumblebees
camas
species (Camassia spp.)
gold
star (Crocidium multicaule) (Aster family)
menzie’s
larkspur (Delphinium menziesii)
nootka
rose (Rosa nutkana)
oceanspray
(Holodiscus discolor)
snowberry
(Symphoricarpos spp.)
Deltoid
Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza deltoidea)
wooly
sunflower (Eriophyllum lanatum)
Late-flowering (until Aug or
Sept)
pearly everlasting
(Anaphalis margaritacea)
nodding
onion (Allium cernuum)
salal (Gaultheria shallon)
evergreen
huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum)
entire-leaved
gumweed (Grindelia stricta)
white
glacier lilly (Erythronium Montanum)
(Garry
Oak Ecosystems Recovery)
Team
Society, 2009, p. 32; USDA Forest Service, 2010, p. 2.
Source:
Native Pollinator Campus Restoration Project, Darnell it al, University of
Victoria, 2014.
Some of the key plants for bumblebees in the Garry Oak Ecosystems
(from Dr. Elle’s list)
1)
Common Camas (Camassia quamash)
2)
Great Camas (Camassia
leichtlinii )
3)
Snowberry (Symphoricarpus
albus)
4)
Sea Blush (Plectritus congesta)
5)
Trailing Blackberry (Rubus ursinus)
6)
Dull Oregon grape (Mahonia nervosa)
7)
Salal (Gaultheria
shallon)
8)
Menzies Larkspur (Dephinium menziesii)
9)
Shooting Star (Dodecatheon hendersonii)
10) Tall Oregon Grape (Mahonia
aquifolium)
11) Hardhack (Spirea
douglasii)
12) Nootka Rose (Rosa
nutkana)
13) Ocean Spray (Holodiscus discolor)
14) Blue-eyed
Mary (Collinsia parviflora)
15) Oregon
Sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum)
16) Pacific sanicle (Sanicula
crassicaulis)
17)
Field chickweed (Cerastium arvens)
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