Online Pollinator Festival 2020
Pollinators of all kinds – insects, birds, and mammals - are vital to our food production system and the vitality of our natural environments. As home gardeners, we can support pollinators by filling even a small corner of our gardens with plants that provide food and habitat for them.
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the 3rd Annual Dancing Oaks Pollinator Festival scheduled for Saturday, June 20th at the nursery is canceled.
Instead, during National Pollinator Week, June 22-28, we will share a series of pollinator-themed videos, handouts, and activities provided by our Pollinator Festival partner organizations and the Pollinator Partnership. Scroll down the page for links to those resources. ↓ ↓ ↓
Pollinator Festival 2020 partner organizations:
Audubon Society of Corvallis
- ASC and the ongoing activities they offer: click to view
- Attracting Pollinators - a colorful and informative USDA publication (with a plant list!): click to view
- How to make hummingbird food and keep it safe: click to view
Benton County Soil and Water Conservation District
- A Garden Plan for Butterflies: https://bentonswcd.org/garden-plan-butterflies/
- Native Bumble Bees – Important Pollinators in the Willamette Valley: https://bentonswcd.org/native-bumble-bees-important-pollinators-willamette-valley/
- Pollinator Focus; a collection of resources: https://bentonswcd.org/programs/native-plants/pollinators/
Corvallis Environmental Center
https://www.corvallisenvironmentalcenter.org/
- "Investigating SAGE for Garden Invertebrates" (including pollinators!) video: https://youtu.be/lMFoWChRUro
- "Let's Dissect a Flower!" video: https://youtu.be/6frF-gXxUYY
The Oregon Bee Project
https://www.oregonbeeproject.org/
- Enhancing Urban and Suburban Landscapes to Protect Pollinators: https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9289
- Trees and Shrubs for Fall and Winter Bloom: https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9277
- General resources for gardeners: https://www.oregonbeeproject.org/garden
- The PolliNation Podcast 'For people making bold strides to improve the health of pollinators': http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/pollinationpodcast/
Oregon Flora
- Oregon Wildflowers app (get to know your natives!): http://www.highcountryapps.com/OregonWildflowers.aspx
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
https://www.xerces.org/- "Xerces Classroom for Youth: Brilliant Bees" video: https://youtu.be/EhBaMc6g_C4
- Pollinator Conservation Resources: Pacific Northwest Region: https://www.xerces.org/pollinator-resource-center/pnw
The Pollinator Partnership
- Pollination Fast Facts: click to view
- Pollination Fast Facts for Gardeners: click to view
- Interactive, clickable, pollinator "poster:" https://prezi.com/view/WZ3qCtCz9VoNgL4qOb1V/
- 5-minute video for kids - "Why Protect Pollinators?" (California Academy of Sciences): https://youtu.be/p8uxJnNteNY
As part of the celebration, during the month of June 2020 the following pollinator-friendly plants were featured. Browse our entire "Pollinator-Friendly" plants collection here.
Perennials/bulbs:
- Achillea millefolium 'Desert Eve ™ Terracotta', Yarrow
- Allium cernuum, Nodding Onion
- Anaphalis margaritacea, Pearly Everlasting
- Beesia calthifolia, Ginger-leaf False Bugbane
- Dicentra formosa 'Bacchanal', Bleeding Heart
- Epilobium (syn Zauschneria) 'Everett's Choice', California Fuchsia
- Geranium oreganum, Native Geranium
Trees/shrubs:
- Arctostaphylos standfordiana 'Fred Oehler' SBH 7655, Stanford Manzanita
- Ceanothus 'Blue Jeans', California Lilac
- Cercis occidentalis, Western Redbud
- Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor', Flannel Bush
- Ribes sanguineum 'Vampire', Flowering Currant
- Spiraea betulifolia var. lucida, Shinyleaf Spirea