Join us on Saturday, June 20, for the Pollinator Palooza at Franklin Park Conservatory during National Pollinator Week at the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Community Garden Campus.
Meet our founder, learn about native bees and how you can help them recover, discover local pollinator organizations, and enjoy crafts, music, food trucks, and garden tours.
Learn about Ohio’s native bees
Get tips on how to create a pollinator garden or wildflower patch
Learn how to naturalize your lawn with mowable flowers and avoid chemicals
Get a 3-ingredient recipe to deter wasps, yellow jackets, and carpenter bees naturally
Enjoy coloring a bumble bee or butterfly at our children’s coloring station
Take home some native wildflower seeds to plant in a pot or your garden
ATTENDANCE IS FREE
This event is held in the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Community Garden Campus, southeast of the Conservatory.
Schedule of Events
Food Demo: Education Pavilion
The Teen Corps has cooked up some tasty treats in the Education Pavilion.
Zebra Swallowtails love to lay their eggs on parsley, dill, carrots, and other garden veggies. Enjoy some fresh veggies and dips made from these garden herbs and learn how you can support butterflies in your backyard.
Raffle Prizes
Complete our Palooza Passport and enter to win prizes, announced every half hour. *Must be present to win*
Children’s Arts & Crafts: Community Garden Campus
Make a pop-up pollinator bookmark, decorate a community art project, and make a pollinator origami.
Live Music from Greg Greyson
Greg Greyson plays a unique blend of soft rock with jazz overtones.
The Bugman
Mark Berman, the Bugman, shares his knowledge.
Plant Sales
Natives In Harmony & Monarch Meadows
Food Trucks
Pitabilities
Participating Organizations
Nora Steele Art | Wild Ones Columbus | Pollinator Pathways
Xerces Society | GreenSpot | GCGC
OSU Master Gardeners | Columbus Kiwanis | ODOT
CDC Headstart | COBA | Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland
Dobritsa Lab | Save Ohio Bees | Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District
Columbus Audubon | ODNR | Dawes Arboretum
Ohio Nocturnal Pollinators | Art of Honey | Barley Moon Botanicals
Project Dragonfly from Miami University
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Community Garden Campus
Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
1777 East Broad Street | fpconservatory.org