Monarch Meadows Native Plant Nursery - Lynd’s

Glad we could help! Excited to watch it grow 😁🐝

What native pollinators have you seen on your pollinator plants??

We have seen dozens of different bee species, as well as flies, butterflies, moths and even hummingbirds!

Did you know that Ohio is home to 500 different bee species?? 😳🐝

Mason bees, mining bees, leaf cutting bees and sweat bees are just a few of the most common types you’ll find around your garden 🐝

Our pollinators are LOVING our wild bergamot right now 😍

Swipe to see a 3 year transformation 👉

We planted this prairie in 2021 with our leftover plants, and now, just 3 years later it is absolutely gorgeous!

We planted it in a matrix style made of mostly purple coneflower, prairie coneflower, wild bergamot, royal catchfly and stiff goldenrod with Bicknell’s sedge intermixed. We also have a few butterfly milkweeds, phlox, prairie dock, and rattlesnake master mixed in as well in smaller numbers.

This is one of our best prairies! The plants exploded the first 2 years, and have calmed down significantly this year, looking more blended together with seedlings growing up in between the original plants.

We converted this area from sod to prairie using a large silage tarp. After laying for a few months, killing the grass, we removed it to find a clean slate ready for planting. While it is more expensive (labor and money) to plant a prairie using potted plants, it sure does speed up the process and results in a beautiful native prairie.

We feel pretty lucky to have this in our front yard. The bunnies like it too 🐰

Do you have any questions about our process??

UD biology student helps restore rare butterfly species in local wetlands University of Dayton senior Joseph Reichel wanted to do a restoration project through the Dean’s Summer Fellowship program.

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Happy Pollinator Week!!

Pollinators are SO important! In Ohio, we have bees, butterflies, birds, beetles, flies, moths, and so many more that pollinate our flowers, trees, shrubs, and crops. Apples, strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, almonds, chocolate, coffee, and more are available to us because a pollinator pollinated a flower! Did you know that approximately 75% of our fruits, nuts, and vegetables that we eat are thanks to a bee pollinator? Without them, we would not have a lot of the foods that we love.

How can you help pollinators? Plant native plants! Habitat and food sources are so important for pollinators, or any wildlife. Native plants are best for attracting native pollinators. You can grow a beautiful garden in your yard full of gorgeous, colorful, fragrant native plants, and have a yard buzzing with pollinators and teeming with life!

If you are trying to attract a specific pollinator, look into finding out their host plant. A host plant is a plant used by an insect to lay eggs on, and that species' larva feed exclusively on that plant. For example, Monarch butterflies only lay eggs on a Milkweed plant, and their caterpillars munch only on Milkweed leaves. In the Monarch's case, the Milkweed actually makes the caterpillars toxic and taste bad to predators. How cool is that?

A few more examples include the Zebra Swallowtail and the Paw Paw tree, the Great Spangled Fritillary and Violets, the Dogbane Beetle and Dogbane, and the Spicebush Swallowtail and the...you guessed it, Spicebush!

Enjoy pollinator week and celebrate by planting a native plant and learning about pollinators! Another fun thing to do is just go outside and find a flower and watch it for 5-10 minutes. See how many pollinators show up and which kinds!

Happy National Pollinator Week! Celebrate with us THIS SATURDAY at the Franklin Park Conservatory’s Pollinator Palooza! 🐝

When: 11am-3pm June 22nd

Where: The Franklin Park Conservatory

We will be there with a limited number of plants for sale! If you missed our spring sales, or want to add a few more species to your garden, now is your chance!!

This is a FREE event! There will be lots of booths and vendors, as well as live music, demonstrations, live critters and food trucks!

So come out and brave the heat with us 🔥, and celebrate all the pollinators that make life on this beautiful planet possible 🌎

Learn more about the event here 👉 https://www.fpconservatory.org/events/pollinator-palooza/

Congratulations to everyone who received the giveaway donations! 🥳🥳

As always, we are thrilled with all the interest in native pollinator gardens! We are so excited to watch these gardens grow and educate the next generations 🎓

In case you missed it….

Every year we set aside plants to donate to nearby schools and organizations! If you are interested in the giveaway, make sure you come back next year in April/May to enter!

Well, another year has come and gone! We are so thankful for all the support we have gotten since we first started this venture back in 2021 🪴🐝🦋

We can’t wait to start planning and preparing for next year!

Even though our regular sale year is over, we WILL be at 2 summer sale events this year 😉 :

🐝 Pollinator Palooza at the Franklin Park Conservancy, June 22

🐝 Mothapalooza July 19-21

We will have a small number of species available at both sales.

⚠️LAST CHANCE to purchase Native plants!

We are down to the final two days of plant sales! After tomorrow (June 9th) the plants will all be removed and either donated or planted to provide us with future seed sources. So get them while you can!

There is still quite a selection of hard-to-find Native plants available! And they’re all 25% OFF!

Open 10-5 at Lynd Fruit Farm (Last day to buy is June 9th!)

The 25% OFF Plant SALE continues!

Now thru Sunday (June 9th) ALL individual plants are 25% off! 😱

2.5” Pots were $4, now only $3!
Gallon Shrubs and trees were $15, now only $11.25!

This is the LAST WEEKEND of the year for plant sales! After Sunday (June 9th) the plants will all be taken down and either donated or planted to provide us with future seed sources! So get the then while you can! 😉



Ps. The full tray of 32 plants for $96 is not included in the sale…. This $96 tray is already 25% off!

💚End of Season Plant SALE!! 🪴🪴🪴

Starting WEDNESDAY all plants will be 25% off!

Since this is the last week to buy Native plants this year, we thought we’d go out with a bang!

Help us clear out the plants and fill your Native Pollinator Garden!

We still have a great selection of plants, about 80 still! But some are getting low, so you might want to get here as soon as you can!

💚What: 25% off PLANT SALE
💚When: Wednesday-Sunday (June 5-9) 10am-5pm
💚Where: Lynd Fruit Farm
9399 Morse Rd, Pataskala Ohio

Only ONE WEEK left to shop Ohio Native Pollinator Plants 😱 The last day the plants will be available for the season is JUNE 9th.

There are still a ton of plants available-nearly 80 species! These plants are just waiting for you to come and plant them in your garden!

Native pollinator plants are essential to native wildlife. They provide food, shelter, and cover for insects🐝, birds 🐦‍⬛and mammals 🐿️.

Re-Wild your backyard and be a haven for wildlife!

Plants are located at:
Lynd Fruit Farm
9399 Morse Rd Pataskala OH

Our Native Pollinator Plants will only be available for TWO MORE WEEKENDS 😱 The last day to purchase plants will be June 9th.

After that, the rest will either be taken to summer sale events or planted in our prairies to provide us with future seed sources 🪴🐝

There is still a GREAT selection of plants to choose from! Let us know if you are looking for something specific!

Remember!
JUNE 9th is the LAST Day
Lynd Fruit Farm
9399 Morse Rd. Pataskala Ohio

Only 3 days left to enter our giveaway!

Applications will be closed after Sunday, and we will be picking a winner in the days following!

If you would like to start a pollinator garden for your school or organization, please email us! You can find all the information you need to include in previous posts as well as on our website!

This is our 4th year donating plants to educators and it is one of our favorite ways to share the love of native plants ❤️ if you are chosen for the giveaway, you will receive 96 native pollinator plants that are specifically chosen for your site! This will cover 96 square feet! 😮 that’s an awesome start to a pollinator garden! 🪴

Tag all your teacher friends!

And who knows! Maybe we will hand out a few extra trays to more people 🤔😉

https://monarchmeadowsnatives.com/native-plant-giveaway