Lebanon Pollinator Pathway
The Lebanon Pollinator Pathway is a string of pesticide-free pollinator gardens, fruit trees, and berry bushes for bees, butterflies, birds, and even hungry humans.
About the Lebanon Pollinator Pathway
We steward a pollinator corridor along the Mascoma River Greenway and elsewhere in Lebanon, NH. With funding from the Robert F. Church Charitable Trust, we have planted a string of pesticide-free pollinator gardens, fruit trees, and berry bushes for bees, butterflies, birds, and even hungry humans. By prioritizing native flowers, shrubs, and trees, and avoiding harmful pesticides and chemical fertilizers, this corridor supports pollinator species who in turn support us: much of our food depends on pollination, and these species are key to the health of our natural ecosystems.
To view all our pollinator corridor plantings, check out the Pesticide-Free Pollinator Pathway on Public Lands map.
At one end of the pollinator corridor is Canillas Community Garden, an organic garden located on CCBA property that is home to 37 individual raised beds, a spiral flower garden, a free-for-the-picking neighborhood herb garden, a pollinator garden, blueberries, and apple trees.
Pollinator Gardens
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Mascoma River Greenway Overpass Pollinator Garden
Location:
Near Alice Peck Day Hospital
(43°38'20"N 72°16'00"W)Pollinator perennials: 2 apple trees, two elderberry bushes, bee balm, black Cohosh, echinacea, Joe Pye Weed, cardinal flowers, sunflowers, black and brown-eyed susans, goldenrod, garlic chives, wild strawberries, golden alexander, butterfly milkweed, coreopsis, obedient plant, woods pink asters, daisies, sedum, and daylilies.
Maintained by Pat McGovern.
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Mascoma River Greenway Mini Meadow
Location:
Behind Goss Logan
(43°38'32"N 72°15'15"W)Pollinator perennials: black-eyed susans, lupine, bee balm, coreopsis, daisies, creeping thyme, purple coneflowers, asters, irises, garlic chives, daylilies, asters, etc.
Maintained by Pat McGovern
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Mascoma River Greenway Pocket Park
Location:
By greenway tunnel
(43°38'33"N 72°15'16"W)Pollinator perennials: Espaliered apple tree, crab apple trees, cherry tree, daffodils, grape hyacinths, scilla, black cohosh, coreopsis, black-eyed-Susans, daylilies, garlic chives, hosta, Solomon seal, bloodroot, etc.
Maintained by Pat McGovern, Cindy Heath, and the Upper Valley Rugby Club.
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Mascoma River Greenway High St. Garden
Location:
High St and Mascoma St
(43°38'28"N 72°15'20"W)Pollinator perennials: Bee balm, common and butterfly milkweeds, liatris, asters, angelica, goldenrod, purple coneflowers, sunflowers, black-eyed susans, daylilies, garlic chives, etc.
Maintained by Pat McGovern
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Colburn Park Garden
Location:
Southwest side of Colburn Park
(43°38'31"N 72°15'06"W)Pollinator Perennials: anise hyssop, common and butterfly milkweed, foam flower, black-eyed Susans, spiderwort, borage, cardinal flower, purple coneflower, lance-leaf coreopsis, New England asters, etc.
Maintained by Barbara Slaiby
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"Bee Friendly" Traffic Island Garden
Location:
Near Lebanon Library
(43°38'34"N 72°15'00"W)Pollinator Perennials: Bee Balm, Echinacea, Lupine, Daisies, Dianthus, Black-eyed Susans, Golden Alexander, Pink Turtlehead, Bachelor Buttons, Coreopsis, Nasturtiums, Wood's Pink Asters, Hosta, Goldenrod, Zinnias, etc.
Maintained by Susan K. Johnson, Barbara Slaiby, Kathy Elfstrom, and Pat McGovern
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Northern Rail Trail Garden
Location:
At the Head of the Northern Rail Trail at Spencer St.
(43°38'41"N 72°14'57"W)Pollinator Perennials: Obedient plant, bee balm, purple and yellow coneflower, lilies of the valley, black-eyed susans, canada anemone, cranesbill geranium, phlox, daisy fleabane, spiderwort, sunflowers, coreopsis, sedum, Irises, marigolds, bachelor buttons. (They also have some lovely painted rocks to identify the plants.)
Maintained by Joanne Oscadel and Mavis Murray
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Canillas Grandparents Garden
Location:
Behind CCBA
(43°38'43"N 72°15'05"W)Pollinator Perennials: Bee balm, purple coneflowers, daisies, black-eyed susans, lupine, hosta, golden alexander, Canada anemone, spiderwort, etc. This garden was planted to honor all grandparents.
Maintained by Pat McGovern
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Canillas Community Garden
Location:
Canillas Community Garden, next to Emerson Place
(43°38'46"N 72°14'58"W)Pollinator Plants: many vegetable, fruit, and herb flowers planted by community members as well as crabapples, blueberries, lupine, bee balm, purple coneflowers, black-eyed susans, garlic chives, butterfly and common milkweed, queen anne's lace, goldenrod, sunflowers, etc. Canillas Garden was named to honor Frank Canillas, a former CCBA Board Member
Maintained by community members.
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Miracle Mile Shrub Plantings
Location:
Behind Miracle Mile
(43°38'16"N 72°17'26"W)Pollinator Perennials: Red osier dogwoods, aronia, button bush, wetland rose (rosa palustris), and American cranberry bush
Maintained by Pat and Joan McGovern
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Umbrella Sculpture Plantings
Location:
Behind Miracle Mile, near the Umbrella Sculpture
(43°38'16"N 72°17'26"W)Pollinator Perennials: Golden Russet Apple, highbush blueberries
Maintained by Pat and Joan McGovern and Bart Guetti
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Northern Rail Trail - Bank St. Garden
Location:
Northern Rail Trail at Bank St. Extension
43°38'39"N 72°14'15"WPollinator Perennials: Purple coneflowers, bee balm, black-eyed Susans, common milkweed, daisies, wood's pink asters, sunflowers
Maintained by Chris Haidari
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Nicole Cormen Memorial Garden
Location:
Bakers Crossing Conservation Area, Hardy Hill
43°38'22"N 72°13'20"WPollinator Perennials: Bee balm, white violets, purple coneflowers,lilies, irises, daisies, phlox
Maintained by Joan Monroe
Get Involved
Volunteers are always welcome to help care for our plethora of pollinator gardens, either by taking responsibility for a garden or joining a work day. To get involved, please email Pat McGovern at mcgovern.patricia@gmail.com.
If you are interested in tending a plot at the Canillas Community Garden this upcoming growing season, email Pat McGovern at mcgovern.patricia@gmail.com. Plots are $20 apiece.
