Welcome to
The Pollinator Path
A real front-yard habitat supporting bees, butterflies, birds, and people—and a rabbit hole you are warmly invited to fall down.
A living recap
Garden Brain is gathering this week’s published Garden Walks.
This front yard was planted to be shared.
Please wander the paths, take pictures, linger awhile, and enjoy the garden.
If you see us outside, don’t be shy—we’re always happy to talk about plants, bees, birds, or whatever tiny creature we’re currently excited about.
Curiosity is encouraged. ❤️
How would you like to explore?
Start with a plant. Follow its pollinators. Learn why leafcutter bees cut perfect circles and why some bees nest in dirt. Suddenly it is midnight and you have opinions about bare soil. Welcome to the rabbit hole.
Garden Map
See the whole yard and tap numbered plants—even when the tag is too far away.
See What’s Growing
Search by name, number, bloom season, plant type, or visitor.
Meet the Wildlife
Repeat guests, tiny architects, and a resident toad with a magnificent name.
What's Blooming?
Follow the garden's seasonal rhythm from spring flowers to winter seed heads.
Garden Walks
The projects, discoveries, mistakes, victories, and occasional mulch-related profanity.
Start Your Garden
Colorado programs, planting plans, rebates, and wonderfully practical ways to begin small.
It started with one plant.
Then another.
Then I wondered what pollinators they supported.
Then I found out some bees nest in dirt.
Things escalated.
What this became
The Pollinator Path is a living field guide to one real front-yard habitat in Mead, Colorado.
Every plant here was chosen with intention. Every wildlife observation happened in this garden. Every story belongs to this place.
The goal isn’t perfection. It’s paying attention.
If one person leaves here and plants a coneflower—or three—the garden just got a little bigger.
Meet a few garden residents
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
A probable female used Vermillion Bluffs and Hummingbird Trumpet before disappearing into the oak.
Brenda
A repeat leafcutter-bee visitor to Blanket Flower. Celebrity status achieved almost immediately.
Big Booty Judy
Resident toad and unofficial habitat quality inspector.
White-lined Sphinx
A probable nighttime visitor doing the pollination night shift.
There is always something happening
Spring begins with manzanita, columbine, penstemon and fruit-tree flowers. Summer belongs to the bee restaurants. Fall brings asters, goldenrod, rabbitbrush, grasses and seed-eating birds. Winter is not “dead”—it is shelter, food and structure.
Bean juice, muddy shoes, and happy discoveries.
July 2026 · The hummingbird proof
My husband spotted a hummingbird from the office window using the plants we chose for her. That moment was proof that the garden was not just decoration. It was working.
July 2026 · Brenda returns
A leafcutter bee returned to Blanket Flower for several consecutive days. Naturally, she received a name and a fan club.
Garden Brain 3.2
The garden now remembers
Explore the front garden as a connected living archive of plants, wildlife, trees, boulders, habitat and observations.