Milton Historical Society thanks Hollymount 4H for pollinator garden

The Milton Historical Society extends its thanks to the Hollymount 4H Club members who cultivated a pollinator garden next to the Lydia B. Cannon Museum, making the building’s scenery much livelier. Planted in late May, the garden has started blooming and growing beautifully.

Pollinators like bees and butterflies will have food from the pollen and flowers, and a more stable habitat. Other pollinators such as birds, moths, wasps, bats and small mammals are positively affected by the garden as well. All gain nutrients from the nectar of the blossoms, and help the flowers to spread their pollen. Plants from such gardens provide shelter and protect the young of most animals from predators and negative human intervention.

The garden will be able to support the local ecosystem as long as it is kept healthy and viable. The food web also greatly improves from gardens like these by allowing pollinators to stay in the area to pollinate crops.

In the pollinator garden, visitors will find Chinese forget-me-nots, purple prairie clovers, purple coneflowers, California poppies, Cape forget-me-nots, basil, corn poppies, French marigolds and many more varieties of plants.