Plants And Flowers To Save The Bees
An old cottage garden favourite bees are attracted to the pink or white flowers and we love the perfume.
Plants and flowers to save the bees. These insects are responsible for pollinating around 30 of the world s crops and. If you want to save bumble bees plant these flowers in your yard. Each bumble bee. From power plants to power and plants on the site of where the logansport power plant supplied the city energy for 132 years the new 19 million solar farm is set to supply a little less than.
For fall zinnias sedum asters witch hazel and goldenrod are late bloomers that will tempt foragers. The bees were oregon checker mallow and mountain pennyroyal flowers. It s best to plant native plants. Thankfully there are things we can do to save the bees like.
Bees feast on bee balm cosmos echinacea snapdragons foxglove and hosta in the summer. Sedums are also excellent plants for rock gardens and walls biting stonecrop and english stonecrop sedums acre and anglicum are natives and great for bees. Many plants rely on bees as natural pollinators to produce some of nature s most nutritious foods. 22 sweet williams dianthus barbatus hb are fantastic flowers for bees.
Keep them moderately well watered in hot and dry weather. Sorry to make this startling but in order to maintain a healthy food supply our busy pollinators must thrive. They do well in full sun to partial shade. Bees love the flowers from cucumbers onions and chives.
Here s a list of 15 plants to consider if you d like to help save the bees. Here are some pollen plenty plants to make a bee s job a little easier and maybe even save them too. Seven simple things you can do to save the bees on national honeybee day. Bees are dying at an alarming rate seriously and we need them on our planet more than you might think.
Read a guest blog post by michaela of the gardener s eden about container gardening with herbs and edible flowers for honeybees and their human. Many plants rely on bees as natural pollinators to. If you opt for an annual variety make sure you save the seeds to sow next year.