You Need This Plant in Your Garden

When searching for a great addition to your pollinator garden, what are some of the prerequisites you require?

•     nectar rich
•     continual blooms
•     waterwise
•     perennial
•    disease resistant

There may be many plants that meet these requirements, but there is one that is often overlooked.  That plant is Zexmenia (Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida). 

Zexmenia defies our hot summer weather and is unperturbed by the humidity.  If it suffers from any disease issues, I have not found them.  Producing bright golden flowers from May thru November, this tough perennial will provide excellent nectar for smaller butterflies and other pollinators in your garden.  It will grow to a height of about two feet. 

I very successfully grow this winner in a brick-enclosed courtyard where most other plants have failed. 

Zexmenia happily survives on nature's rain and most any soil from clay to sand.  

You need this underutilized perennial Zexmenia in your pollinator garden.