Join us on Pollinator Day!
Want to learn about the butterflies and bees in your garden and maybe go home with seeds and plants?
Date:
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Planned locations include:
- Seaboard Coastline Trail at Driver Demo Garden 10:00 – 12:00
- Sleepy Hole Park Children’s Learning Garden 11:00 – 1:00
Click to see participating gardens.
Visit both gardens, take a tour, and learn about the flowers and plants in the gardens.
Complete an easy scavenger hunt at both gardens, and you can pick up a FREE pollinator plant at Sleepy Hole Park, while they last.
We have over 150 plants donated by Master Gardeners. Final plants may vary, but we plan to have:
Blackeyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta
Blackeyed Susan – Rudbeckia spp. ‘Jeff’s Susan’
Blue False Indigo – Baptisia cultivar
Blue mistflower – Conoclinium coelestinum
Blunt Mountainmint – Pycnanthemum muticum
Butterfly Milkweed – Asclepias tuberosa
Buttonbush – Cephalanthus occidentalis
Common Milkweed – Asclepias syriaca
Cup Plant – Silphium perfoliatum
Golden Ragwort – Packera aurea
Hoary Mountainmint – Pycnanthemum incanum
Late Boneset – Eupatorium serotinum
Lyreleaf Sage – Salvia lyrata
Purple Coneflower – Echinacea purpurea
Spotted Bee Balm – Monarda punctata
Trumpet Vine – Campsis radicans
Virginia Creeper – Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Virginia Mountainmint – Pycnanthemum virginianum
Wild Bergamot – Monarda fistulosa
Wooly Pipevine – Aristolochia tomentosa
All ages are welcome!
*We’ll keep an eye on the weather that week. Event cancelled in case of rain. Participating locations may change.*
About Pollinator Day
Pollinator Day is an opportunity to learn how to attract more bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects to your gardens here in Hampton Roads. See which flowers get the most visitors and get growing information so you can decide if you want to add those to your own home pollinator garden. Gardening for pollinators is good for us all, whether you want to see more pretty butterflies floating around or to have more bees pollinating your fruits and vegetables.
Pollinator Day is part of Pollinator Week, an annual event celebrated internationally in support of pollinator health, organized by the Pollinator Partnership, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated exclusively to the protection and promotion of pollinators and their ecosystems. https://www.pollinator.org/pollinator-week
If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services or other accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact Erin Wishall, VCE City of Suffolk at 757-514-4331/TDD 800-828-1120 during business hours of 8:30 am. and 5:00 p.m. to discuss accommodations five days prior to the event.