As part of the Rotary Grant for our pollinator garden project, education and outreach is part of our mission, to our club members and outside our club as well. Below is a little piece of information about the importance of snow to pollinator plants.
The pollinator Garden’s Prayer: “ LET IT SNOW”!!
Simply put, Wisconsin winters are damn tuff!! We need a good snow cover to give us a “blanket of protection”
Without snow, we can get: Freeze dried, Heaved out of the ground, Suffer from drought, Burnt to a crisp, think its Spring on a Sunny day or Suffocate under a sheet of ice!
And then, “No Soup for You! ( no honey either) and nothing for the birds and the bees.
You get the picture – without the protection of a blanket of snow, bad things happen. We could get stunted, maimed or just plain DIE!
So just saying, from one bloomer to another, “ LET IT SNOW”!!
William Wandsnider
BS Landscape Architecture UW Madison