Larry Hurley shares his Photo of the Month featuring Meadow Blazing Star, a native perennial that’s a magnet for monarch butterflies. A must-have for any garden looking to support these beautiful pollinators!
For June’s Beyond Behnke’s Podcast I got to chat with Kate Fisher, owner of The Bumbling Bee Apiary. Kate and her husband own a farm in Carroll County, Maryland were Beekeeping is just one of the many things happening on the farm.
Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized in the media, and evident to anyone who gardens or even steps outside during the growing season. It is not your imagination…
Behnke’s has a number of demonstration gardens. One of the most recent additions is the Pollinator Garden, still going strong and growing robustly after one year. Click through to learn about the some of the plants in it and come by the store to see them in person.
Those of you who have shopped here for many years may remember that we used to have our shade and flowering tree display area on the south side of our main driveway (that is, between Route 1 and the parking…