Welcome! What flowering plant is really attracting the pollinators in your garden these days?

Welcome! What flowering plant is really attracting the pollinators in your garden these days?

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Check to here to find the links and handout for tonight! https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/mn-plant-spotlight-series/handouts-and-resources?authuser=0

Check to here to find the links and handout for tonight! https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/mn-plant-spotlight-series/handouts-and-resources?authuser=0

Check to here to find the links and handout for tonight! https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/mn-plant-spotlight-series/handouts-and-resources?authuser=0

Check to here to find the links and handout for tonight! https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/mn-plant-spotlight-series/handouts-and-resources?authuser=0

To learn more about the Bee Lab: https://www.beelab.umn.edu/

To learn more about Turfgrass and Dr. Watkins' work: https://turf.umn.edu/

To learn more about Lawns to Legumes: https://bwsr.state.mn.us/l2l

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If you've not heard of Marla and her work before check out her TED talk- https://www.ted.com/talks/marla_spivak_why_bees_are_disappearing?language=en

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Hi Robert- could you add your question to the Q&A?

Birdsfoot Trefoil https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialplants/herbaceous/birdsfoottrefoil.html

Robert - I think the cardboard will kill most everything by next spring and should not take another full year

How long you wait between after round up? It’s illegal in Canada we can still use it here?

I'm surprised the use of roundup is even mentioned as an option. Stuff is toxic and should be taken off the market.

I know

Read the Round-Up label and it must list lawns and will state how long to wait before seeding or planting

Ways to Get Flowers In Your Turf 1) overseed into existing turf, 2) scalp the grass then overseed, 3) remove grass, seed fine fescue and flower into bare soil 4) scalp the grass and aerate, overseed with fine fescue and flowers,

Hi Elaine- do you have a place you like to get seed?

Still needs mowing?? Sorry I came in late

Limited mowing makes the bee lawn look more acceptable to neighbors, keeps grass from shading flowers and is better for lawn sports etc

great

Best treatments- scalping your turf (mow really low), then overseeding… OR scalping and aerating (perforating the soil) then overseeding

And pets..

What type of Thyme is it again?

The thyme is serpyllum: https://www.outsidepride.com/seed/ground-cover-seed/creeping-thyme/creeping-thyme-groundcover-seed.html

Thank you Laura

Just a comment, smaller bees and flys seem to love our black eyed susens

Love seeing the chat- a reminder if you'd like to share a message with your fellow attendees select the option "all panelists and attendees"

Red clover is a much coarser and larger plant and normally dies out with lawn mowing. It grows in many lawn areas at the Arboretum that we mow high and only a few times per year

Honey bees around us use the Bird bath to get a drink, the day I took it down they acted very confused. A water source may be a thing to consider.

The presentation will be on the website later

Yes I see them in my bird bath too

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Thank you!

Bee Lab link- https://www.beelab.umn.edu/learn-more/beelawn

I've actually made a sign on Shutterfly, which is a garden flag.

Metroblooms link- https://metroblooms.egnyte.com/fl/ibPDAS5I63#folder-link/

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Apparently vinegar will kill weeds

Vinegar is tricky- to be effective it has to be a high concentration that makes it less safe than you'd think

Good to know!

Extension Yard and Garden is a good source of solid information on what to use for weed removal.... more so than social media.

Thank you all!

Thank you all!

Great presentation

Thank you!