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.