{"id":1812,"date":"2015-01-09T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2015-01-01T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T15:55:31","slug":"attract-bees-in-organic-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/attract-bees-in-organic-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Attract Bees in Organic Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/attract-bees-in-organic-gardens\/attachment\/insects\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1813\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1813\" title=\"insects\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/insects.jpg\" alt=\"insects\" width=\"526\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/insects.jpg 423w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/insects-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bees, Flies, and Wasps all display their liking for the nectar from this Sedum spectabile. Insects are attracted by colour, fluorescence and iridescence and by pollen which gives them proteins and fat.\u00c2\u00a0 Scent is only one form of attraction for Bees. In the following selection of plants there are many attractions for the apairian population and you can grow them\u00c2\u00a0 to help your Bee population<\/p>\n<h3>Plants to Attract Bees<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Flowers with open structures like Rudbeckias, Erigerons, and the early Doronicum<\/li>\n<li>Most daisy like flowers and Calendulas, Asters and Cosmos<\/li>\n<li>Bees seem to swarm together around Monarda, Verbenas, Echinops, Teazels, Scabious and of course the Sedums.<\/li>\n<li>Natural gardens of indigenous species are one of the key food plants for bees<\/li>\n<li>Flowering\u00c2\u00a0 herbs like Thyme, Sage and Lavender are bee magnets.<\/li>\n<li>Ceanothus, Heather, Pyracantha, Broom and Hebe also attract Bees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Experiment with other plants and flowers\u00c2\u00a0 in addition to this list as the population of bees has been struggling in the UK in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com%2Finfo%2Fgardening-ideas%2Forganic-vegetable-seeds.html\">Organic Seeds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/flowers\/how-to-make-your-garden-eco-friendly\/\">How to make your garden ec0-friendly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bees, Flies, and Wasps all display their liking for the nectar from this Sedum spectabile. Insects are attracted by colour, fluorescence and iridescence and by pollen which gives them proteins and fat.\u00c2\u00a0 Scent is only one form of attraction for Bees. In the following selection of plants there are many attractions for the apairian population and you can grow them\u00c2\u00a0 to help your Bee population Plants to Attract Bees Flowers with open structures like Rudbeckias, Erigerons, and the early Doronicum&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/attract-bees-in-organic-gardens\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}