Bees are incredible natural pollinators, and they play an essential part in your garden’s ecosystem. Bees pollinate flowers, which allows the plants to produce fruit and seeds. Creating a welcoming environment for bees in your yard will improve your garden’s production and assist a global bee population that is in decline.
TIPS FOR ATTRACTING BEES:
- Bees are more attracted to yellow, white and the blue-purple range
- Fragrant flowers
- Plants with a long flowering season to assure a continuous food supply
- Early spring flowers after a long hungry winter
- Select single flower heads
- Double headed flowers look showy but produce much less nectar and make it more difficult to access pollen
- Avoid highly hybridised plants which have been bred not to seed and thus produce very little pollen
- Choose different types of flowers to ensure blooms through as many seasons as possible
- Provide fresh water
- Don’t use pesticides
- Plant indigenous plants
- Plant flowers in clumps
- Plant where bees will visit- sunny spots and sheltered from strong winds
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