Gardening for Pollinators Creating a backyard pollinator garden is a great way to provide habitat for native species and enjoy your local wildlife. You don't even need a backyard to do it. Even window boxes or small borders can become safe havens for pollinators. Buchmann encourages gardeners to use native plants because horticultural varieties are bred for human tastes, not pollinator preferences like nectar yield. Native plants are generally easy to care for because they require few or no pesticides and are adapted to your climate and soil.
Conservationists also urge gardeners to cut back or eliminate pesticide use.
I have quaker ladies, dandelions, spring beauty, periwinkle, chickweed, and mayweed in my very small Greenbelt, Maryland, townhouse yard.