Species Guides with Planting Guidelines
These documents contain species-level information about how your plant looks at different stages of its growth, as well as information about flowering times, soil and moisture preferences. The second page of each guide contains planting and watering guidelines.
- Blue Vervain
- Blue Wood Aster
- Boneset
- Cutleaf Coneflower
- Foxglove Beardtongue
- Golden Alexander
- Grey Goldenrod
- Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
- Showy Tick Trefoil
- Swamp Milkweed
- Wild Bergamot
- Wild Strawberry
Pollinators Cheat Sheet
Quick Guide to Pollinators (pdf)
This is a key document for all volunteers. It contains examples of insects you might see on your plants as well as guidelines for how to identify bees vs wasps vs butterflies, etc.
Data Monitoring using Survey123
There are two surveys we require participants to fill out after planting their plants.
The first is a one-time ‘Planting Conditions’ survey to let us know the date and location of planting, and other information about your planting location.
We’ll send out weekly reminders to fill out the ‘Timed Count’ survey to let us know how the plants are doing, whether they are flowering and what pollinators you observe on the plant.
See directions below on how to download the app and load the two surveys, or the links to open the surveys in a browser on any device if you prefer to not download an app.
- App
- Browser
- Planting Conditions (one-time): https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/906fa7de0a054530887bec7bd6508bf5
- Timed Count (weekly): https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/c3545632f6fe4671ae346da911ff5401
Data Sheet
Timed Count Data Sheet (PDF)
You can use this document if you prefer to use a paper sheet while filling out your weekly Timed Count survey. However, you would still need to enter the information into Survey123 afterwards to send us the data.
REFERENCE BOOKS
• Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England (print: $25)
OTHER RESOURCES
UVM Pollinator Handouts (Strawberry)
Adopt a Plant iNaturalist Project (website to submit pictures and get crowed sourced identification of insect species)
