Pollinator Garden

Pollinators are important to our environment and without them our food supply would be in danger. In 2017 Mrs. Sorensen's 4th grade class helped with planting a Pollinator Garden through a "Call 511 Before You Dig" contest, a grant with the Success Academy and the Skills Academy. Our Roots and Shoots group at Dodge is working on making a difference one project at a time. The vision for this area is to use the scientific method to conduct real-world observation and data collection in the monarch butterfly habitat.


These are the plants growing in our Pollinator Garden:

Butterfly Milkweed

Butterfly Milkweed is a host plant for Monarch Butterflies.

The Scientific name of the plant is Asclepias. This plant grows well in the Plains.

Bees, ants, wasps and butterflies all pollinate this plant.

Blue Wonder Catmint

This plant flowers from spring to fall.

Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds love Blue Wonder Catmint.

Nepeta Racemosa is the Scientific Name for this plant.

Goldenrod Fireworks

The bright yellow flower of this plant looks like a firework. It is a late blooming plant and blooms into the fall.

Bees, butterflies and wasps like to pollinate this plant.

The Scientific name is Solidago Rugosa for this plant.

Butterfly Bush

The Butterfly Bush bloomsin the summer attracting butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, wasps and ants.

The Scientific name for the Butterlfy Bush is Buddleia davidii.

Purple Coneflower

Bees, hummingbirds, beetles, flies and butterflies all pollinate the Coneflower Purple plant.

The Scientific name for Coneflower Purple is Echinacea purpurea.

This is a great plant for a prairie garden.

Purple Dome Aster

This plant blooms royal purple from August to September.

Birds and butterflies pollinate this plant.

The Scientific name for this plant is Symphyotrichum novae-angliae .

Blazing Star

The Scientific name for Blazing Star is Liatris Kobold.

Butterflies, bird and hummingbirds like this plant.

This plant grows well in dry soil. It has deep purple flower heads that can grow up to a foot tall.

Baby Joe Pye Weed

This plant blooms a maroon color. It blooms from July to September.

The Scientific name is Eutrochium dubium for Baby Joe Pie Weed.

Butterflies love Baby Joe Pie Weed.

Ivory Silk Lilac Tree

Vlcek Gardens provided an Ivory Silk Lilac Tree for our garden.

This is a flowering tree that will attrack hummingbirds and butterflies.

The Scientific name for the Ivory Silk Lilac Tree is Oleaceae

We hope that our Pollinator Garden at Dodge Elementary helps with the pollination and the life of the Monarch Butterfly.