Bee Garden

Let your plants flower leave the flowers on your plants and deadhead them to allow the honeybees to get the pollen and nectar they need.

Bee garden. Without their help in pollinating plants there would be few flowers or vegetables. Wood and stem nesting bees will benefit from untended hedgerows or hollow reeds and nesting blocks made of untreated wood. A seed kit like this makes attracting bees to your garden easy.

In addition to the familiar honeybee there are about 4 000 species of native or wild bees in the continental u s including bumblebees carpenter bees sweat bees leafcutter bees and mason bees. There are many things we can do to make our gardens more attractive to bees one of the simplest is to grow plants that are rich in nectar and pollen. Put out the welcome mat for honeybees native bees and other beneficial insects.

It s designed for our pollinator garden bed but can be used for any small space planting. Solitary bees lay their eggs in the hollow cavities leaving a small supply of food for the larvae to eat. Crocus hyacinth borage calendula and wild lilac provide enticing spring blooms in a bee garden.

For solitary bees consider leaving a sunny part of your garden uncultivated with soil surface exposed. The populations of many of these bees are in serious decline. Using a wide variety of preferred plants in your bee garden will also attract a wide variety of bees.

Inviting an array of bees into your own backyard is simple when you plant their favorite flowers. Always position bee hotels in full sun. Bees are essential to a garden.

Bee gardens that use 10 or more species of bee preferred plants tend to be the most successful. This way the bees will keep coming back again and again. Providing bee hotels is a great way to boost bee diversity in your garden by attracting solitary species.