Beneficial Blooms Guide
Using flowering plants to support beneficial insects on your property
by NRM South, September 2025
Beneficial blooms guide — using flowering plants to support beneficial insects on your property from NRM South.
The guide offers a range of helpful tips to boost beneficial bugs – including which common flowering plants to select, and easy ways to create insect-friendly habitat.
While pollination services in our horticultural landscapes are often thanks to European honeybees, there’s also a myriad of native insects that are important for pollination and pest control – and there’s actions we can take to encourage them to thrive in our gardens and orchards.
Read about:
- crop pollinators
- natural pest enemies
- boost diversity and abundance of flowering resources
- choosing your plants
- native bees
- creating habitat for native crop pollinators
- resources and further reading.