No Mow March: Homeowners Associations

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Container Gardening

Planting flowers in containers helps your yard or porch look neat while still adding color. Many flowering plants you choose for containers can also give food to pollinators.

Utilizing Flowering Shrubs

Instead of using evergreen shrubs that only have leaves, try planting a few flowering shrubs that can stay in your yard year‑round. Pollinators like it when there are groups of the same kind of plant together.

Do Not Apply Insecticides in March

Native ground‑nesting bees use patches of resting (dormant) grass in the spring to raise their young. These helpful pollinators are not aggressive and do not harm your lawn. Skipping insecticide treatments on your grass during March helps protect these native bees!

Add a Pollinator House

If you can’t leave a few hollow plant stems in your flower beds, you can add a pollinator house instead. Some native bees will use man‑made tubes if they are built the right way. You will need to clean or replace the nesting materials every couple of years to keep the bees healthy. UF’s Pollinator Hotels guide can help you learn how to build and care for a pollinator house.