Pollinate Wellesley Events




Garden Tour (00000002)Click Here for Information and map links for Pedals to Petals, self-guided biking and walking tours of residents’ native gardens throughout Wellesley, which will also include stops at the Town’s Central Park and Police Station Pollinator gardens when flowers are in full bloom later this summer.  

Did you miss the Wellesley Conservation Land Trust Flower Power Speaker Series, How Native Plants Can Save Our Bugs and Birds?

Weve got you covered?  Watch the talks here. 

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Toxin Free and Pollinator Friendly?

Show your pride with a Healthy Yard Sign.
Email us with your address to receive a new Sign.

     CALLING CITIZEN SCIENTISTS

No room or time for a garden but still want to help our pollinators? The NRC will be offering Wild Flower Seed Packets in exchange for participation in a fun and easy citizen-science documentation project suitable for all ages. Stay tuned for more details.

Simons Parks Volunteers Needed

We need your help to prepare Simons Park and help replace lawn with new plants to support at-risk pollinator species. We will be removing the black tarp and sandbags September 7th and 8th and planting new trees, shrubs, grasses and plugs on September 21-23. We need your help! Please Sign up here. Be a part of this transformative project, food, fun and fulfillment will be in high supply. 


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RECOMMENDED READING

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Find these great books at your local library to keep you informed and inspired.  Download the full list here.



Books (adults): 

  •  Bringing Nature Home, by Doug Tallamy
  • Nature’s Best Hope, by Doug Tallamy
  • The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening,  Kim Eirman. 
  •  The Green Garden: A New England Guide to Planting, and Maintaining the Eco-Friendly Habitat Garden, by Ellen Sousa
  • The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, by Rick Dark and Doug Tallamy
  •  Native Plants for New England Gardens, by Mark Richardson and Dan Jaffe 
  •  Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening and Conservation, by Donald Leopold 
  • 100 Plants to Feed the Bees, Xerces Society
  • Attracting Native Pollinators, Xerces Society
  •  Lawns into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape, by Owen Wormser 
  • A Guide to Invasive Plants in Massachusetts, by Paul Somers
  •  Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide, by Heather Holm 
  •  Pollinators of Native Plants, by Heather Holm 
  • Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them, by Paige Embry
  • The Bees in Your Backyard, by J. Wilson and O.M. Messinger Carril
  • Noah’s Garden, by Sara Stein
  • The Art of Butterfly Gardening, by Mathew Tekulsky

 Books (children): 

  • Señorita Mariposa, Ben Gundersheimer. Illustrated by Marcos Alvado Rivera
  •  The Puddle Garden, Jared Rosenbaum (Wild Ridge Plants). Illustrated by Laura Rosenbaum 
  •  Native Plant Stories, Joseph Bruchac 
  •  Pretty Tricky: The Secret Ways Plants Survive, Etta Kanor 
  •  The Queen Who Banished Bugs: A Tale of Bees, Butterflies, Ants and other Pollinators, Ferris Kelly Robinson 
  • Rusty Bumble: A Bee’s Story, by Melissa Davey