Blogged by Carol:
Andy the engineer (shown below with the new muesli pack) is a man of many projects and I found out yesterday that he's working on re-designing our car park. This seems like a great opportunity for us to start our own bee-friendly garden. I found a list of lots of different plants that are bee friendly on this website:
http://nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegardens/list.html
Apparently lavendar and rosemary are a good place to start. So, next steps are to have a look at the plans with Andy and then discuss with John our gardener and hopefully by Christmas we'll have taken the first steps to creating our very own bee garden. More to follow...!
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I was pleased when looking at the link that soladago (Goldenrod) is in the list of summer plants. I have lots of it still in flower in my cottage garden and it seems to be as bee friendly as any other flower I've come across. I've found that it's very invasive though - once you have some you will never be without it! The other thing is that my goldenrod grows up to 5'6'' in height and bad weather (we are known to get wind and rain in Cornwall) will knock some of it over if no form of staking is carried out.
How can people be persuaded to adopt more traditional and therefore usually more bee friendly plants in their gardens? Luckily I like lavender, marjoram and goldenrod for example. The bee situation is very worrying what with two wet summers and they need a lot of help I think.
Hi Brian
I don't think people need to do anything complicated in their gardens to help bees. As you say plants like lavender are perfect, easy to grow, great for bees and are a garden favourite. I have a couple of lavender plants in my garden and whenever it actually stops raining the bees are all over them.
Rachel
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