Don’t Step on a Bee
Today is Don’t step on a Bee Day!
Bees are vital pollinators for the landscaping schemes as well as being very important for our ecosystem. Pollinators are so important because they help plants to reproduce by transferring pollen between plants. While plants would survive without pollinators, there would be a severe decline in certain plants. This would cause many problems including food reduction and carbon dioxide levels would increase.
You can encourage bees into your garden by creating a bee garden, providing nests or providing water for them. Tubular-shape flowers, like foxgloves, are a good flower to have for bees and they are extremely important for some bees, for example the garden bumblebee, Bombus hortorum.
Fun fact about bees:
- Did you know that bees can see the colour purple more clearly from other colours?
- Did you know that honeybees can visit up to 5,000 flowers in a single day?
- Did you know that approximately 1/3 of food is a result of honeybee pollination?
- Did you know that male bees don’t have stingers so it’s only the females that can sting you?
- Did you know that honeybees communicate through dance moves?
Our nursery has a great selection of plants that bees love:
🌿 Buddleja ‘Black Knight’
🌿 Buddleja ‘Nanho Blue’
🌿 Buddleja ‘Lochinch’
🌿 Lavandula ‘Hidcote’
🌿 Ajuga reptans ‘Braunherz’
🌿 Verbena bonariensis
🌿 Echinops Ritro
🌿 Salvia nemorosa ‘Ostfriesland’
🌿 Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’
🌿 Salvia nemorosa ‘mainacht’
🌿 Sedum ‘Matrona’
🌿 Echinacea purprea