Softer landings
Episode Introduction
In today's episode, Softer Landings, we chat with Heather Holm, pollinator conservationist and author, about leaf litter, the mighty oak, and what we can do to make more “habitable” habitats in often underutilized understory. Thanks for listening!
Host Stephanie Barelman
Stephanie Barelman is the founder of the Bellevue Native Plant Society, a midwest motivational speaker surrounding the native plants dialog, and host of the Plant Native Nebraska Podcast.
Guest Heather Holm
Heather Holm is a pollinator conservationist and award-winning author of four books: Pollinators of Native Plants (2014), Bees (2017), Wasps (2021), and Common Native Bees of the Eastern United States (2022). Both Bees and Wasps have won multiple book awards including the American Horticultural Society Book Award. Heather’s expertise includes the interactions between native pollinators and native plants, and the natural history and biology of native bees and predatory wasps. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and many local publications. Heather is a National Honorary Director of Wild Ones and also serves on the boards of several non-profits: Friends of Cullen Nature Preserve and Bird Sanctuary and Friends of Minnetonka Parks.
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Episode Content
Visit Heather’s site and get pollinator educated!
Keystone plants: what does that even mean?
Soft landings- nice, cushy spaces for our little insect friends.
Leaf litter and diverse native plantings under native trees. A multi-season buffet for birds and a haven for all the sweet little caterpillar babe-ays. And fireflies, and bumblebees, and ladybugs… You get the idea.
Yet another reason insecticides are bad
- Did you know systemic insecticides can persist in woody plant material for long periods of time-like years? I didn’t…
- Check out this Xerxes Society publication here.
Tailored plant list for NE
Wildflowers
- Wild Columbine
- Wild ginger
- Wild geranium
- May apple
- Bloodroot
- Short’s aster
- Common blue violet
Grasses and sedges
- Carex brevior
- Pennsylvania sedge
- Sprengel’s sedge
- Bottlebrush grass
Ferns
- Lady fern
- Marginal fern
- Maidenhair fern
Additional content related to this episode:
What makes a plant native?
http://bonap.net/fieldmaps Biota of North America North American Plant Atlas database-select Nebraska
https://bellevuenativeplants.org Bellevue Native Plant Society
native (wild type) vs. nativar/native cultivar (native plant cultivated by humans for desirable characteristics)
On the Web
BONAP aforementioned
BNPS aforementioned
http://www.facebook.com/groups/bellevuenativeplantsociety- BNPS on Facebook
Books & Authors
Rick Darke- The Living Landscape
Douglas Tallamy- Professor and Chair of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Entomology at the University of Delaware, author of The Living Landscape, Nature's Best Hope, naturalist, and curator of "Homegrown National Park".
Enrique Salmon- Iwigara
Daniel Moerman -Native American Ethnobotany
Heather Holm- https://www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com
Native Plants of the Midwest
Planting in a Post-Wild World
Jon Farrar's Field Guide to Wildflowers of Nebraska
Additional Resources
Other Local Organizations
- Green Bellevue
- PATH
- Nebraska Native Plant Society
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