| Planting plans for a bee garden: Put a buzz in your beds 'Have no plant in your garden that you don't know to be useful to bees or believe to be beautiful. So, what I would like to see in every garden are plants and flowers that are helpful to bees and that, at the same time, we find beautiful to look at. A lot of people think that in order to offer a suitable habitat for bees they have to plant a wild flower meadow or allow their garden to "go native", eschewing their beloved garden plants. The bad news is that without the pollinating services of bees of all types, our food supply would be severely compromised. Bees are important to our planet's ecology and economy, and to our own wellbeing. If each of us grew just a handful of bee-friendly plants in our gardens, this would provide an enormous resource for our buzzy friends – in fact, the phrase "Think globally, act locally" can offer been invented for bee-friendly gardeners. |
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Planting plans for a bee garden: Put a buzz in your beds
