Bookhenge: Pollinator Paradise Garden is planted all around the historic Chatham Mills in downtown Pittsboro -- as in on every parking lot island.
Bookhenge: Debbie Roos imagined and created the Pollinator Paradise. She's an Cooperative Extension Agent with NC State University.
Bookhenge: Rock cairn with lots of spaces inside for pollinators.
Bookhenge: A lovely wild, white Baptistia. Baptistia is one of Debbie's Top 25 Pollinator Plants.
Bookhenge: Native oregano (Prostanthera rounditfloria)
Bookhenge: Bright orange is Butterfly Weed.
Bookhenge: Butterfly weed, orange flower in the foreground.
Bookhenge: Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium L.)
Bookhenge: Leadplant (Amorpha canescens)
Bookhenge: Amsonia tabernaemontana (Blue Star)-- Top 25
Bookhenge: Antennaria plantaginifolia, or Plantain Pussytoes, is a herbaceous perennial, native ground cover in the Asteraceae family. Host for American Lady butterfly
Bookhenge: American Lady butterfly
Bookhenge: Buttonbush Plant (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Bookhenge: Horny goat weed
Bookhenge: Culver's Root, Top 25
Bookhenge: Aristolochia macrophylla -- Common Name(s): Broadleafed Birthwort Dutchman's Pipe, Pipevine, Wild Ginger