Bee Survival 2010 Style

Bee Survival 2010 Style

Oh to Bee a Wallflower

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.

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