Tammy Sons of Tia Nursery shows blue vervain, a late-summer plant that attracts bees, hummingbirds, and monarch butterflies. Pair it with Black-eyed Susan and yellow coneflower for visual contrast and to keep pollinators fed through fall.
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This is Tammy Sons with Tia Nursery. I've taken my lunch break to show you a great pollinator plant, the blue vervain. It's the end of summer and they are just now starting to bloom. So if you love bees, pollinators like hummingbirds, monarchs, you need to get blue vervain because they go crazy over, over those. And as you see in the background, we've got Black-eyed Susan blooming. It's very important to get end-of-year perennials as well as long-blooming season perennials, because the long-blooming season perennials, when they're through blooming, then you've got the end-of-the-season perennials. Look at the contrast with the purple blooms of the Blue Burr Vane and the yellow coneflower. And I don't know if you can see the bees