Bee Friendly Garden Design

No matter the size of your garden you can make a difference in the lives of area pollinators.

Bee friendly garden design.

It s designed for our pollinator garden bed but can be used for any small space planting. See our table below for a list of species that attract bees. Linden bottlebrush buckeye andgolden raintree bloom for severalweeks in late spring and summer. Sedums single flowered dahlias verbena bonariensis japanese anemones autumn asters actaea simplex.

By providing a constant supply of pollen and nectar for bees to feed on you ll keep bees on site year round. Pesticides herbicides and fungicides. Plants that attract bees. Bee species all have different tongue lengths adaptations to different flowers so a variety of flower shapes will benefit a diversity of bees.

These pollinators need our help as they struggle to overcome habitat loss pesticides diseases and other environmental stresses. If you want your garden to support bees avoid. Likewise a wildflower meadow covering acres of land is also a bee garden. Instead grow plants that.

Frey kate lebuhn gretchen lindell leslie. A bee garden may be a collection of flower pots sitting on a back porch. Flip to back flip to front. Bloom for a long time.

It is a while since i last updated you on my garden. Native bees include ground nesting carpenter mason and sweat bees. Bee friendly plants for every season summer. How to design a bee friendly garden home gardens can provide safe havens for wild and domestic bees.

Plant spring to fall pollinators appreciate this approach and you llbe happy with blooms for six months or more. Plan for a succession of flowers so as one finishes another starts off. I have been very busy with all sorts of landscaping and planting since the spring and the bee friendly garden is now beginning to show it s potential. How to create a pollinator friendly garden.

Bee friendly flowers draw in pollinators putting your garden firmly on their map. Lavender agastache erysimum bowles mauve scabious comfrey foxgloves cardoon echinops autumn. Design an abundant flower filled yard that nurtures bees and supports biodiversity. Bee garden design tips.

Offer both pollen and nectar. Paused you re listening to a sample of the audible audio edition. Plant bee friendly trees and shrubs start the growing season withflowering crabapple and eastern redbud. Double blossomed flowers which produce little or no pollen and nectar.