Pollinator Garden

The Boone UMC Creation Care Team is creating a Pollinator Garden in the Meadow of the church. We are creating our garden as a Pollinator Pitstop on the NC Butterfly Highway in accordance with the guidelines of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation. In choosing plants for our garden, we are using native plants and are informed by Dr. Doug Tallamy’s work and the Homegrown National Park movement.

We plan to launch our Pollinator Pitstop project on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 with the children of Boone UMC at Vacation Bible School. We welcome donations of native sun-loving, deer-resistant perennials, as well as native small trees and shrubs. You can share plants from your garden or purchase these plants from a local nursery. There will be a Pollinator Pitstop Project donation table set up in the Lobby on June 14, 2026.

If you would like to give a financial donation for this project, you can donate online. If donating by check, please indicate “Pollinator Garden” in the memo line and take your donation to the Church Office.

Pollinator Pitstop Wishlist

Shrubs and Trees
American beauty berry (shrub)
Northern spice bush
Button Bush
Native azaleas (such as Flame)
Witch hazel
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)

Perennial Flowers
American Boneset
Aromatic Astor
Bee Balm
Blackeyed Susan
Cardinal flower
Coneflowers (Echinacea)
Coreopsis (Tickseed)
Garden phlox
Golden Alexander (wild parsley)
Joe Pye Weed
Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum)
Oxeye sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)
Milkweed (Eastern Butterfly Milkweed)
Wild geranium (Cranesbill)
Blue Pitcher Sage (Salvia azurea)
Mountain Stonecrop (Sedum ternatum)
Common Yarrow (white)

Why Natives?
“A native plant is a species that naturally occurs within a specific ecosystem (without human intervention) and shares an evolutionary history with the other species in that area. These relationships make them crucial for the health and productivity of that ecosystem. Without them, ecosystem services collapse, threatening the systems our communities depend on to survive.” 
Source: Home Grown National Park