Landscaping for Pollinators in Oklahoma

Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Poteau, OK

Landscaping for Pollinators

in Oklahoma

Landscaping for Pollinators

Kerr Center off ice landscape

Establish a low-maintenance, drought tolerant, attractive landscape using native plants that will attract native pollinators

Survey native plants on the Kerr Ranch

Research native plants and pollinators and plants

Experiment with gathering and starting plants from seed

Experiment with transplants

Design landscape elements

Plant landscape

Kerr Center Office Landscape Project

Use landscape as an outdoor classroom to educate visitors about native plants and pollinators

Plants labeledField days

Photo-document landscape and post info and photos online

Create fact sheets, reports and other educational resources for use by farmers, ranchers, ag educators and landowners

Educational Outreach

Native Plant Selection

A few questions to ask:

What grows well in my area?

Which plants will attract the pollinators I want?

Can I create a landscape that will attract pollinators throughout the growing season?

Which plants look attractive in a landscape planting?

Steps to Establishing a Native Landscape

Kerr Center’s office landscape 2011-15

David Redhage

planned the

native landscape

2011-2012: Seeds collected from around the ranch

Sunflowers

Some success with seeds

David Redhagewith Giant Coneflower

Spring 2013 Transplants in Greenhouse

Transplants

purchased

from

Bustami

Plant Farm,

Stillwater,

OK

Golden indigo

Barbara’s button

Giant coneflower

Illinois Bundleflower

Transplants for office landscape

Frog Fruit

Butterfly Milkweed

A look at the Kerr Center’s new office landscape2013-14

Butterfly milkweed2013

2014

Purple Prairie Clover

2013

2014

Frog fruit

2013

Frogfruit

2014

Slender Mountain Mint

2013

2014

Illinois Bundleflower 2013

2014

Maximilian’s Sunflower

June 2013

Maximilian’s Sunflower

October 2013

2014

2013, spring

Narrow-leaf sunflowerFall 2013

2013

Giant Coneflower

2014, summer

Switch grass (variety “Dust Devil”)

2014

American Smoketree

2014

Sweet Bay Magnolia 2013

2014

Buffalo grass

Osage Orange wood “rounds” add decorative element”

For more information on Kerr Center’s Pollinator ProjectContact David Redhage

Project Manager dredhage@kerrcenter.com

This material is based upon work supported by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under number 69-7335-1-21Any opinions, fi ndings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily refl ect the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture

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