Crawley Woodlands Preserve Educational Pollinator Garden

The educational pollinator garden at Crawley Woodlands Preserve is located along Billington Street at the trailhead for the preserve’s approximately 2-mile walking trail. The garden provides an opportunity for visitors to learn about native plants and the important role they play in supporting pollinators and local biodiversity.

The garden is a collaborative project of the Town of Plymouth’s Department of Energy & Environment, Sustainable Plymouth, and America’s Hometown Garden Club, with design guidance from Love Albrecht Howard Designs. The garden features a combination of native plants established from New England Wetland Plants’ “Showy Wildflower Mix” seed mix, along with more mature nursery-grown plants.

Plantings include Butterfly Weed (Asclepias 'Gay Butterflies'), Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), New York Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis), Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis), and a variety of native goldenrods, including Seaside Goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens), Early Goldenrod (Solidago juncea), Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis), and Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa).

The garden serves as both a pollinator habitat and an educational resource, demonstrating how native plants can be incorporated into a landscape to provide food and habitat for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other wildlife.