Keystone Plants

I just stumbled across an interesting video and thought I would share. Some may have already run across this since it is two years old. Just the same, I found that the info was useful and I was grateful to see that many of the trees and flowers that I am encouraging in my "meadow" are on the list of keystone plants that support specialist bees and caterpillars.

Thanks for sharing! I love it when someone makes my garden design job easier with beautiful and useful summaries like this. Fun stuff!

Here's the link it gave for the Keystone plants by ecosystem: https://nwf.org/keystoneplants

I particularly liked his attitude that if we have a foreign disease killing a native species, plant more of the species until you find one with natural resistance and then keep planting its offspring.

Thanks for sharing. I have an abundance of pollinators thanks to the diversity of trees and prairie plants around here. Here I check the list and not surprisingly many of them are the keystone species. I also plant specialty plants for a few beautiful butterflies (Sassafras, Pawpaw, milkweed etc). Combining both creates a garden full of life.