Leionnahs Native pollination Garden

Leionnahs Native pollination Garden Leionnah has chosen to create a pollination garden to earn her Girl Scout Bronze Award

It’s amazing how much the front garden has filled in the past 3 years! The back memorial garden is on its 2nd year and n...
06/19/2026

It’s amazing how much the front garden has filled in the past 3 years! The back memorial garden is on its 2nd year and next to it is in its 1st year. The zinnias are almost ready to have the chicken wire removed and maybe bloom in July. 🐝

Lots of yellow popping 🌼
06/13/2026

Lots of yellow popping 🌼

06/10/2026

This squirrel is not happy I’m in it’s space 😆

06/09/2026

Little Grey Catbirds to remind us to always check for nests before trimming your bushes.

06/03/2026

You went to the garden center. You bought flowers to
help the bees. The tag said "Pollinator Friendly!"

You planted them. A bee visited.

The bee died.

Most plants sold at big-box garden centers and
nurseries are pre-treated with neonicotinoid
insecticides. These are systemic — they're absorbed
into every cell of the plant. The roots. The stems.
The leaves. The pollen. The nectar.

When a bee feeds on the nectar of a neonicotinoid-
treated flower, it ingests the insecticide. The effect
isn't always instant death. It's worse.

Neonicotinoids disrupt bee navigation. The bee can't
find its way back to the hive. It flies in circles
until it's exhausted. It dies alone, lost, in your
neighbor's yard.

A sub-lethal dose causes the colony to slowly
collapse. Workers forage less efficiently. The queen
lays fewer eggs. Larvae develop poorly. Over weeks,
the hive dies.

Your "pollinator-friendly" plant was pre-loaded with
the #1 chemical linked to pollinator collapse.

How to buy truly bee-safe plants:
Ask the garden center directly: "Were these treated
with neonicotinoids or systemic insecticides?"
Buy from local native plant nurseries — they rarely
use systemics.
Look for "neonicotinoid-free" labels — some nurseries
are now advertising this.
Grow from seed — guaranteed untreated.
After purchasing treated plants: wait 1 full growing
season before allowing pollinators to visit — the
chemicals can persist in the plant for 1-3 years.

The bee on the label was a marketing graphic.

The chemical inside the pot was the real product.

Ask before you buy. Or grow from seed.


Get Your Wings Native Refuge is now official! We have been focusing on host plants for many varieties of Butterflies and...
06/01/2026

Get Your Wings Native Refuge is now official! We have been focusing on host plants for many varieties of Butterflies and Fritillarys as well as nectar plants .

Beefsteak tomatoes, cucumbers, sandwich bag orange and yellow peppers 🐝
06/01/2026

Beefsteak tomatoes, cucumbers, sandwich bag orange and yellow peppers 🐝

05/29/2026

New Jersey just declared war on its own garden centers and the strike teams are already in the field. The state launched coordinated legislation that funds dedicated eradication crews to rip invasive plants out of wetlands, forests, and roadside corridors while simultaneously banning the commercial sale of those same species statewide. It is a two-front attack: stop the pipeline and clean up the damage. For decades plants like Japanese knotweed, phragmites, and mile-a-minute vine have been sold in nurseries as ornamental choices while escaping into the Pine Barrens, the Delaware Bay marshes, and the suburban woodlands that still hold fragments of native biodiversity. New Jersey looked at the ecological hemorrhaging and decided that the same state that could mobilize emergency crews for storms could mobilize them for ecological restoration. The strike teams are trained crews with state funding, hitting priority invasion sites with mechanical removal, targeted treatment, and native replanting. The sales ban means nurseries can no longer profit from the species that are choking out the local flora. Landscapers are adapting to native plant palettes. Garden centers are clearing shelves. And the habitats that emerge under this coordinated assault have a real chance: Atlantic white cedar seedlings can establish in wetlands not smothered by phragmites, native asters and goldenrod can bloom in meadows not overrun by mugwort, and the migratory birds that depend on New Jersey's coastal habitats find food plants that actually belong there. Other Mid-Atlantic states are watching because New Jersey proved that stopping invasions requires both law and labor. You cannot just ban the sale and hope. You need boots on the ground pulling the roots out.

Zinnia sprouts !
05/25/2026

Zinnia sprouts !

05/20/2026

Male or female? Here’s how to tell the difference in Black Swallowtail butterflies.
The butterfly resting in my hand is the male. Notice the large, bright yellow spots across his wings and only a small amount of blue near the hindwings.

The butterfly above is the female. She is typically a bit larger and has smaller yellow spots, but her hindwings display a striking iridescent blue band.

Both males and females are important pollinators, but only females lay their eggs on host plants in the carrot family, including dill, parsley, fennel, and native golden alexanders.

Next time you spot a Black Swallowtail, look for the color pattern: more yellow usually means male, while more blue usually means female.

New here? Follow along for practical gardening tips, nature education, and simple ways to help pollinators thrive.

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