Pollinators get new digs at Scotts Bluff County Administration garden

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05/22/2025 Added

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Members of the Nebraska Extension Master Gardener and Scotts Bluff County 4-H planted a pollinator garden on May 16 at the Scotts Bluff County Administration Building in Gering, Neb.

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[00:00:00.000]The Scotts Bluff County Courthouse
[00:00:01.640]Garden in Gering has been
[00:00:02.920]under construction this spring
[00:00:04.460]and on May 16th the Nebraska
[00:00:06.480]Extension Master Gardeners and
[00:00:08.720]4-H Youth were out updating the
[00:00:10.600]flowers and plants for the pollinator
[00:00:12.660]habitat. Laurie Zitterkopf,
[00:00:14.330]Nebraska Extension Master Gardener
[00:00:16.320]and coordinator for the event
[00:00:17.920]explains the need for the
[00:00:19.270]update. It was in a big need of
[00:00:23.020]a change over.
[00:00:24.340]It had vine weed and thistles
[00:00:27.550]had taken over and so this last
[00:00:30.080]year growing season the
[00:00:32.860]employees at the courthouse
[00:00:34.840]with the county sprayed it to
[00:00:36.810]kill off the vine weed, kill
[00:00:38.920]off
[00:00:39.140]the thistles and of course that
[00:00:40.250]took care of everything else
[00:00:41.280]that might have been in here.
[00:00:42.540]The pollinator garden will have
[00:00:44.270]nine specific local plants for
[00:00:45.920]nine local butterflies. We
[00:00:48.900]did research on the different
[00:00:50.810]plants and we used the Nebraska
[00:00:52.790]statewide arboretum
[00:00:54.220]so we're going to be using the
[00:00:54.220]Nebraska statewide arboretum.
[00:00:54.340]Their planting guide of doing a
[00:00:56.970]tiered layer, less weeds more
[00:01:00.630]wow and so we have four layers
[00:01:03.980]of
[00:01:04.160]plants. We have our anchor
[00:01:06.000]plants which are our focal
[00:01:07.700]plants. We have our seasonal
[00:01:09.700]superstars.
[00:01:10.800]We have our space holders or
[00:01:12.910]place holders which are like
[00:01:15.140]your blue flax and things like
[00:01:17.450]that that
[00:01:18.140]and black-eyed susans which
[00:01:20.230]will move around and fill in
[00:01:22.230]spaces and then dissipate
[00:01:24.220]as the other native plants take
[00:01:26.380]hold because some of our native
[00:01:28.620]plants will take three plus
[00:01:30.470]years to
[00:01:31.040]really shine so we need to have
[00:01:33.350]other things in place while
[00:01:35.500]they grow up. Zitterkopf said
[00:01:38.320]the
[00:01:38.460]pollinator garden will have a
[00:01:39.960]different aesthetic next fall
[00:01:41.540]than other flower beds. The main
[00:01:43.630]goal for
[00:01:44.460]taking care of it is just to be
[00:01:46.860]able to come in, in the
[00:01:48.850]spring as late as we can just
[00:01:51.160]break
[00:01:51.780]off stems and leave them in
[00:01:53.130]place.
[00:01:54.100]We don't want to remove the
[00:01:55.740]stems because there might be
[00:01:57.530]insects living in them, and
[00:02:00.420]we don't want to cut those
[00:02:02.120]stems off too far down because
[00:02:04.150]actually the insects use that
[00:02:06.280]second year after you've deadheaded
[00:02:08.760]it, then the next season they
[00:02:10.760]use that for their homes
[00:02:12.380]to overwinter in.
[00:02:14.980]The maintenance on this will be
[00:02:17.130]focused on insects, taking care
[00:02:19.460]of the insects that are
[00:02:21.140]in our area.
[00:02:22.560]We will have, one of the kids
[00:02:24.350]for their 4-H project, making a
[00:02:26.350]puddling area so that
[00:02:27.800]we will have places for them to
[00:02:30.170]get their water and mud and
[00:02:32.250]stuff like that.
[00:02:33.860]The Pollinator Garden will be a
[00:02:35.420]stop on the Nebraska Statewide
[00:02:36.990]Arboretum's Wildflower
[00:02:38.360]Week schedule on Friday, June 6th.
[00:02:41.600]The gardeners will finish
[00:02:42.850]planting on June 6th, and there
[00:02:44.480]will be a ribbon cutting at
[00:02:45.800]10 a.m.
[00:02:46.800]The public is invited.
[00:02:48.600]Funds from a Watchable Wildlife
[00:02:50.680]Grant.
[00:02:51.340]The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum.
[00:02:52.540]And Keno funds have been used
[00:02:54.230]for the Pollinator Garden.
[00:02:56.940]With the UNL Panhandle Research
[00:02:58.630]Extension and Education Center,
[00:03:00.530]I'm Chebella Guzman.

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