Bee Friendly Garden Design

Plants that attract bees.

Bee friendly garden design.

Plan for a succession of flowers so as one finishes another starts off. By providing a constant supply of pollen and nectar for bees to feed on you ll keep bees on site year round. Bloom for a long time. Linden bottlebrush buckeye andgolden raintree bloom for severalweeks in late spring and summer.

Flip to back flip to front. Native bees include ground nesting carpenter mason and sweat bees. Frey kate lebuhn gretchen lindell leslie. 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.

Bee friendly plants for every season summer. If you want your garden to support bees avoid. Bee garden design tips. How to design a bee friendly garden home gardens can provide safe havens for wild and domestic bees.

Design an abundant flower filled yard that nurtures bees and supports biodiversity. A bee garden may be a collection of flower pots sitting on a back porch. Instead grow plants that. Likewise a wildflower meadow covering acres of land is also a bee garden.

It s designed for our pollinator garden bed but can be used for any small space planting. No matter the size of your garden you can make a difference in the lives of area pollinators. Sedums single flowered dahlias verbena bonariensis japanese anemones autumn asters actaea simplex. While the bees are sipping nectar and collecting pollen you ll enjoy a colorful garden that produces flowers in every season spring through fall.

Bee friendly flowers draw in pollinators putting your garden firmly on their map. Plant bee friendly trees and shrubs start the growing season withflowering crabapple and eastern redbud. It is a while since i last updated you on my garden. Double blossomed flowers which produce little or no pollen and nectar.

These pollinators need our help as they struggle to overcome habitat loss pesticides diseases and other environmental stresses. How to create a pollinator friendly garden. Bee species all have different tongue lengths adaptations to different flowers so a variety of flower shapes will benefit a diversity of bees. Put out the welcome mat for honeybees native bees and other beneficial insects.

See our table below for a list of species that attract bees. Last year i bought some lavender hidcote plugplants they cost 15 for around 150 plants. Lavender agastache erysimum bowles mauve scabious comfrey foxgloves cardoon echinops autumn. Pesticides herbicides and fungicides.