Garden Planning
& Care
We have developed a series of native plant guides and other resources to help you explore ecological gardening and create habitat that supports native pollinating insects, such as wild bees and butterflies, and the birds that depend on them.
Garden Design & Short List Native Plant Guides
We developed a garden design worksheet to help you create a pollinator garden that works for your garden space, whether it is a tree lawn, a garden in front of a condo building, a container garden on a balcony or roof deck, or a garden in a larger landscape.
We also created two short lists of key native plants for adding habitat for pollinator and birds in Brookline:
Additional information about key native plants is available in the more detailed guides below.
Native Plant Guides: Pollinator Garden Plants
Guides to native perennials and annuals for planting in garden spaces large and small, around trees, in tree lawns, and in containers on patios, balconies, and roof decks
Native Plant Guides:
Shrubs
Guides to native shrubs for habitat restoration in pollinator gardens, hedgerows, and other landscapes