13 Best Flowers for Attracting Pollinators to the Garden | Gardener's Path

Flowers are beautiful, bringing a splash of color to our gardens and veggie patches. But there’s so much more to them than just beauty alone.

Flowers play a key role in our ecosystem, they can be edible, and they are perfect for attracting beneficial insects and other small helpful animals. This is especially true in the case of pollinators.

The functioning of our ecosystem rests on the tiny backs of these pollinators – a big burden for their little shoulders to bear! In fact, we rely on pollinators to help produce as much as one-third of our food.

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So, if there’s anything we can do to give them a helping hand, we definitely should!

Read on to find out more about the beautiful array of blooms you can plant in your garden to help your pollinators, and your plants. The following are 13 of our top picks.

Also known as a starflower thanks to its attractive star-shaped blue flowers that are beloved by both people and pollinating insects alike, borage provides ample sweet nectar, which is perfect for bees.

It has lovely soft green foliage, and what’s great about this flower is that is self-seeds, so growing it is very low maintenance.

Another great thing about this plant is it is not only pretty, but functional too. The seeds, leaves, and flowers are all edible, and often used in culinary and herbal applications.

Borage seeds are available in a variety of quantities from Eden Brothers.

Read more about adding borage to your garden here.

As the name may imply, butterfly bushes are an excellent choice for attracting butterflies (and