Many people get pleasure from gardening but it also provides essential food sources for pollinators. Whether you are a small or large scale gardener there are suitable plants for everyone.
It doesn’t matter if your garden is a balcony, allotment, window box, pots and tubs or a swathe of green open space; with a bit of thought pollinators can benefit from a banquet of pollen and nectar right throughout the year.
You can help all the bees: honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees, by planting more flowers for them to feed on.
Honey bees are reliant on both nectar and pollen throughout their life cycle and they need food in order to make and store enough honey to see them through the winter months as they do not hibernate.
Choose plants with single, open flowers for easy access to the pollen and nectar and plant several plants together in a group to attract the bees. Bees are also more attracted to colourful plants…