Designed for a typical suburban backyard, this 40’ x 25’ pollinator garden features showy native Willamette Valley plants. It should have a sunny southern exposure. Spread out the design and plant larger groupings to fill a bigger space. Click on the design above to enlarge it, or download it to print here:

Inclusion of trees, shrubs, and perennials provides a variety of heights. Low-growing self-heal, wood strawberry, and kinnikinnik along the edge soften the transition to an adjacent lawn.

Earliest spring blooms are provided by kinnikinnik, camas, shooting star, Oregon grape, Indian plum, and red-flowering currant, continuing with tiger lilies, milkweed, Douglas aster, and gumweed in the late summer and fall.

A short path leads to a bench beside the mock orange, so you can enjoy the fragrance while immersing yourself in the buzz of busy pollinators.

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Broadleaf Trees

• Choke Cherry x1
• Vine Maple x2

Large Shrubs

• Blue Elderberry x1
• Buckbrush x1
• Indian Plum x1
• Mock Orange x1
• Red-osier Dogwood x1
• Serviceberry, Pacific x3

Small Shrubs

• Nootka Rose x2
• Red Flowering Currant x2
• Tall Oregon Grape x3

Groundcovers

• Kinnikinnik x3
• Salal x3
• Wood Strawberry x17

Flowers

• Broad-leaved Shooting Star x8
• Common Camas x3
• Common Self-heal x6
• Douglas Aster x3
• Oregon Iris x4
• Oregon Sunshine x6
• Red Columbine x7
• Rose Checkermallow x6
• Showy Milkweed x3
• Narrow-leaved Milkweed x3
• Tiger Lily x9
• Willamette Valley Gumweed x3