Pollinator Pathway
Danbury
Pollinators play a critical role in our ecosystem, fertilizing plants in our gardens and farms. They rely on a network of food sources and habitats to survive and thrive. Most insects need a food source every one to two hundred feet - the Pollinator Pathway project aims to establish appropriate pollinator-friendly habitat and food sources for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinating insects and wildlife along continuous corridors. Picture a series of stepping stones, each resting place having safe space for our pollinators to eat, drink and rest.
Anyone can create a pollinator garden - a few plants in containers on a deck will provide nectar and pollen for our pollinators! Lists of appropriate plants can be found on this website: https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/plants
Join us today and put your garden on the map!
WCSU Garden 1
WCSU - Science Building - Danbury, CT, 06810
Garden 1 is located on the 9th ave side of the science building, by the greenhouse. The garden is composed of native flowering plants such as, Purple coneflower, Black-eyed susan, Wild bergamot, Joe pye weed, Foxglove beardtongue, and much more.
MannKind Corporation
40 Taylor Road, Danbury CT 06810
Pollinator Garden with native trees, shrubs, perennials and grasses. Site is sunny, with moist well-draining soil. Garden will provide habitat for pollinators and a respite for employees.
WCSU Garden 2
WCSU - Science Building - Osborne St, Danbury, CT, 06810
Garden 2 is located on the back of the science building (Osborne St), by the drop-off location. It is in a more shaded area, surrounded by maple trees. It is located at the bottom of a hill, where runoff accumulates coming from Osborne st. Native plants include, purple coneflowers, cardinal flower, Joe pye weed, and many more.
Rogers Park Middle School Gardens
21 Memorial Drive, Danbury, CT, 06810 (near south parking lot)
School gardens that include a vegetable, an outdoor classroom with benches framing a sunwheel and facing a native plant meadow. The sunwheel was built by students and school staff and points to the compass directions and to the solstice and equinox sunrises.
Ryder House, Danbury Museum
41 Main Street, Danbury CT 06810
Native plant garden in front of the historic Ryder House at the Danbury Museum. Pollinators love the Coneflowers and Anise Hyssop during the summer, and Asters bloom wildly in autumn. Native grasses fill the spaces in between the flowering plants, keeping weeding to a minimum.
DHS - Bioretention Garden
43 Clapboard Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT, 06811 - lower lot
The garden started off as a bioretention pond, using river rocks to slow down and filter the runoff water coming down Clapboard Ridge Rd. The location was chosen because it is where floods often occur on the High School grounds. Native shrubs and flowers planted include, dwarf and compact inkberry, bearberry, beards tongue, and Shenandoah switch grass.
Danbury Library
170 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810
Native plant garden between the library and the parking lot. The space is long and narrow, and receives early to mid-afternoon sun. Shrubs and a redbud tree are next to the building, with a curving strip of native grasses to prevent erosion. Perennials provide blooms all season long, and low-growing ground cover fill in the space next to the curb.
Our Partners
The Danbury Pollinator Pathway is an iniative led by Western Connecticut State University, The Danbury Garden Club, The Danbury Museum, The Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, MannKind Corporation, and The City of Danbury.
