A snapshot of what the BVG Project is all about - BUGs (see what we did there?) plants gardening and grabbing your attention! Because it all starts with awareness. This project is all about sharing small things that we can do from home to help our insects, and therefore the rest of biodiversity, to thrive. #theBVGProject #biodiversity #insects #biodiversitycrisis #gardeningforbiodiversity

Always learning, always changing, just like the world around us. The BVG Project focuses on 4 areas to help individuals combat insect decline from home: • Study the context • Sweat to restore ecosystems • Monitor your work • Share lessons learned. These categories are pulled from the 4 ways researchers say we can combat Shifting Baseline Syndrome, the biggest challenge to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises today. SBS keeps us from noticing the loss in biodiversity, which keeps us from acting. It all starts with awareness. So I’m glad you’re here! My goals through the BVG project are to • STUDY - share resources, data, and connect you to thought leaders and indigenous voices to understand the context. • SWEAT - offer practical tips of what you can do, starting at home, to restore biodiversity and functioning ecosystems • MONITOR - connect you to groups that track species and methods for monitoring biodiversity • SHARE - I’ll share what I learn and ask you do the same! #biodiversitycrisis #gardeningforbiodiversity #30x2030

Simple steps. Big change. Starting in the home garden. The BVG Project logo is a stylized garden gate, a reminder to embrace the scale of the home garden. These spaces are often overlooked as insignificant by landscape architects- I used to be one of those designers who only saw the power in big, green spaces. But with 1.2M acres of home gardens in the UK (more than all its nature reserves combined) and 60M acres of lawn in the US, and millions more across the globe… there is HUGE opportunity for healthier, ecologically rich (maybe even rewilded!!) habitat at home. Let’s get to work! Logo design: the talented Allie from @prettyuseful #biodiversitycrisis #biodiversityvictorygarden #30x2030

And the winners are …. @marlin_nator2000 - Fine Art finish @laud_studio - Matte finish @haleylavergne - Glossy finish DM me to select the print of your choice and talk details 🏆🌻💌 #gardeningforbiodiversity #biodiversity #biodiversityvictorygarden #biodiversitycrisis #gardeningtips #pollinators #thebvgproject #insects #birds #bats

New A3 Print: same info, new (cute) numbering key! This smaller print size delivers all the eye candy in a smaller package, allowing the collector in you to mix and match pollinator palettes. Launching online at our BVG Project Shop soon!

New print alert! 🎉 We’re giving away three A3 Pollinator Pantone Prints to celebrate this new collectible size! To enter, simply: 🫶 like this post 💅🏼 Follow our account 🐝🪲🦋🦇🦜🪰 comment below + tag a friend or share your favorite pollinator! Each tag is an entry. Winner announced Wed Aug 20! Smaller prints 🤝 gallery wall. Which combination would you choose?? #gardeningforbiodiversity #biodiversity #biodiversityvictorygarden #biodiversitycrisis #pollinators #thebvgproject #insects #30x2030 #gardening

Power to the pollinators! 🦋🐝🐦‍⬛🦇🪰🐞 We recently finished a series of illustrated “Pollinator Pantone” posters for @thebvgproject that highlight the beauty and diversity of our plants and pollinators. These posters showcase not just the colorful zinnias, asters, and honeysuckles we know and love, but also the lesser known plants and species with their own unique palettes. Here are some fun pollinator facts we learned while working on this series: 🪰 Flies are extremely important pollinators, second only to bees! They fly further from home and are more resilient than bees, making them essential for harsh environments and isolated plant species. Flies like their flowers stinky and pollinate many of the foods we love like cacao and mangoes. 🐞 Beetles are the most ancient pollinator - they evolved 170 million years before bees, and are often the ones pollinating equally ancient flowers like magnolias and water lilies. They like their flowers fragrant and fleshy, and they usually make a mess and eat the flowers as they pollinate. 🐝 Color matters! Bees can’t see the color red at all and are drawn to blue, yellow, violet, and white blooms, while butterflies are drawn to red, orange, pink, and purple. Bees primarily use scent while butterflies rely more on sight to find food. These prints are now available online! Follow @thebvgproject to learn more about how you can help support your local pollinators, and snag some for yourself at the link in their bio!

The first gallery showing of Pollinator Pantones was a success! Thanks for having us @bonnymuirgreen_garden Lots of great conversations were sparked from these being displayed out in the community - which is the whole point of these series! Your garden is habitat and what you plant matters. This series offers up some ideas of what you can plant and what pollinator species to look for as a result. Research-based info in a gorgeous package, thanks to the talented @alliemounce from @prettyuseful . Excited to see lots of these prints go into new homes. More to come! #gardeningforbiodiversity #biodiversity #biodiversityvictorygarden #gardeningtips #pollinators

Series 01 | Pollinator Pantones is live!! Link in bio This series of art prints showcases the different blooms palettes that attract our 7 main pollinators - your guide to what you can plant at home for biodiversity. #biodiversity #pollinators

Happy Pollinator week! 🐝 🪲 🐦 🦇 🦋 We learned so much about bees from the collaboration with @buildforbees this Spring. A round up of favorite tidbits to come + exciting news about the remainder of this Pollinator Pantone Series… stay tuned! #gardeningforbiodiversity #biodiversity #biodiversityvictorygarden #pollinators #thebvgproject #insects