Garden Proposal:

Plants:

Local?

Benefit?

Drought?

Cost

Rosemary

No

Edible, attracts
pollinators

Tolerant

$3 per 50 seeds

White Sage

Yes

Attracts
pollinators, local

Tolerant

$3 per 100
seeds

Hidcote Blue
Lavender

No

Attracts
pollinators

Tolerant

$3 per 100
seeds

English
Lavender

No

Attracts
pollinators

Tolerant

$3 per 250
seeds

All of the plants we chose to line our plot will attract various pollinators, demonstrating a
symbiosis called mutualism. The pollinators; flies, bees (honey bees, bumblebees, solitary bees,
etc.), butterflies, wasps; use the flowers of these plants as food sources (pollen and nectar),
while the plants are in turn pollinated as the pollinators move from flower to flower.
Our soil must be amended in order to grow any of our plants, it is heavily compacted, rocky, and
nutrient-poor. We will supplement it through sheet mulching, using cardboard and wood chips.