Bee Survival 2010 Style
Gardeners continue to do their bit to help Bees survive.
The cold winter was not all bad news as this new British Beekeeper report shows
There is also an ‘Adopt a Beehive’ scheme for those interested
Reduce the number of Bubble bee bereavements by becoming a British bee bloke.
Selection of Flowers for Bees ( credit the BBC Gardeners World)
Spring flowers
Bluebell, bugle, crab apple, daffodil, flowering cherry and currant, forget-me-not hawthorn, hellebore,
pulmonaria, pussy willow, rhododendron, rosemary, viburnum, thrift.
Early-summer flowers
Aquilegia, astilbe, campanula, comfrey, everlasting sweet pea, fennel, foxglove, geranium, potentilla, snapdragon, stachys, teasel, thyme, verbascum.
Late-summer flowers
Angelica, aster, buddleia, cardoon, cornflower dahlia (single-flowered), delphinium, eryngium, fuchsia, globe thistle , heather, ivy, lavender, penstemon, scabious, sedum.