Bees pollinating cholla flower. Photo: Kathy Haq.
Join Santa Fe Botanical Garden, local partner organizations and Xerces Society and build a connected, climate-smart pollinator habitat across our local Santa Fe urban community.
Fill out an interest form by 5:00pm on June 30. More details here.
With more than three hundred species of butterflies and around one thousand species of bees, New Mexico boasts an impressive diversity of pollinators. In the Santa Fe area, pollinator habitat has been lost due to urban development. Fortunately, many pollinators are able to thrive in urban areas where landscaping includes a diversity of native plant species free of pesticides.
Growing throughout Santa Fe Botanical Garden at Museum Hill are over 170 species of New Mexico native plant species supporting pollinators year-round. Our horticultural practices are organic and pesticide-free and we monitor the health of the plants. Plant information and locations are available on our Garden Explorer database and soon a pollinator plant web tour will be available.
Also, at our Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega, there are many pollinator plants including species of milkweed which are the only larvae host plant used by the monarch butterfly.
Monarch on poison milkweed Asclepias subverticillata (photo: Janice Tucker)
Become a part of the Santa Fe Pollinator Trail and fill out an Habitat Kit interest form!
Xerces Society is offering habitat kits that contain climate-smart native plants to residents and local organizations willing to commit to providing the time, labor, and space to establish these plants in yards and gardens throughout urban Santa Fe.
If you are interested in learning more about establishing pollinator habitat in your own garden, please visit the Xerces Society’s website with more Habitat Kit Program information and instructions. You will find program requirements, descriptions of the habitat kits, species lists, planting guides and frequently asked questions.
You can contact kaitlin.haase@xerces.org with any questions about the Santa Fe Pollinator Trail Habitat Kit program.
Watch “Protecting Pollinators in Santa Fe: Introducing the Santa Fe Pollinator Trail”:
Visit the Xerces Society blog for more information about the Pollinator Trail and Habitat Kit Program.
Also learn more about pollinators in New Mexico gardens on our YouTube channel here!
