(mellow music) >>As a veggie gardener, I love having flowers throughout my garden, not just because they're beautiful, but at the same time, I'm trying to get as many pollinators to come to my garden as possible.

So I often look and say, which ones should I put in my garden?

'Cause there's so many different varieties.

But really, which ones will attract the most pollinators?

From the moths flying around to the various types of bees and bumblebees to the birds, to the evening moths that pollinate so many things, even sometimes I look at, hey, my little beetles, those little clumsy things that fall all over the place, they're doing their job too.

So as I look at this blue flax right here, I look at that, how open that is.

That allows that bumblebee to have a landing strip.

This Dianthus right here, it's beautiful colors, and this right here is a wallflower.

It has so much fragrance that it'll attract those various type of pollinators.

So throughout my garden, I have beebalm, I have lavender, I have coneflowers, I have mint.

I have so many different types of flowers, some that are tubular, because not only do the bees and the wasps do a great job of pollinating, but I also wanna see hummingbirds come to my garden and the various types of butterflies.

So you have bumblebees that, as I mentioned, they need a sturdy platform and a good cluster.

But one thing about it, you see this is red?

Bumblebees aren't crazy about red, but they like purples and blues and yellows and whites and oranges.

They see it differently than how we might see it.

So it's almost like an ultraviolet light that's telling them, hey, come here.

I need you to pollinate me.

But then we have the birds who fly around.

They're not crazy about the color white, but they love all these other colors here.

So as you're planting in your garden, put a variety of different types of colors and petals and scents throughout your whole garden because they're going to invite such an array of pollinators to your garden.

Because think about it, one in three bites of food that we consume came to us via a pollinator.

So as you garden, think of it from the perspective of what will invite the various pollinators into your yard, and you'll enjoy so many benefits, from the different fruits that you grow to the seeds that they'll give you the next season.

Try it out.

Happy gardening.