Keeping a bee alive is as simple as planting some flowers in your garden. The bees are in trouble but you can help by creating, bee friendly, pesticide-free environments. It does not matter how little space you have access to. You can help, simply do this in your garden or even a container or a window box, at home or work. By just planting and caring for a small selection of flowers, where ever you live, this will help beyond measure.

 

Please though, do not rely on bedding plants. In recent years has been a big push by garden centres, markets and DIY stores to get you to decorate your garden with bedding plants. These strips of colourful annuals are very popular, convenient and you can quickly to fill your flower borders, especially handy if you are pushed for time. Sadly, most of these plants are not particularly useful to bees.

 

Apart from some "green" issues why I object to these bedding plants. (For a start, they are raised in big industrial greenhouses which waste energy and generate carbon emissions at nearly every stage of their production. Raised in these artificially heated greenhouses, most are then shipped here *(uk) from Holland in large gas guzzling lorries, in non recyclable plastic modules, filled with unsustainable peat compost, drenched in pesticides.........)

 

Still no use

But even if overnight the companies went green and got all this sorted, there is still one major problem, the Bees just do not like these types of plants!

 

As far as helping the bees is concerned, any plants with double flowers or are highly hybridised, like these mass factory produced bedding plants, do not supply them with enough nectar and pollen that they need to survive and feed their young with.

 

If you really can not live without bedding plants in you garden, then for the sake of the bees and butterflies, please make the effort to grow them yourself from seed, in your own greenhouse cold-frame, conservatory or window box propagator and use heritage or heirloom seeds.

 

Flowers you can plant

Here are just a few flowers that you can grow to attract and feed the bees and butterflies that visit your garden.

 

Annual Scabious, Alyssum, Bee Sage, Candytuft, Cornflowers, Dahlias, Flanders Poppy, Larkspur, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Sweet William and Tobacco plants.

 

Plant Wildflowers

If you really want to make a difference, you can try your hand at planting bee friendly Herbs and wild-flowers. Mind you, however well meaning the advice of some experts it is not just a case of throwing some wildflower seed in your garden and hoping for the best, sadly this is wrong and all your efforts will be in vain.

 

Most wildflowers thrive on poor soil, so your best bet is to lift a bit of lawn, remove another 2" inches of the soil and then plant your seeds or seedlings. There are specialist wild-flower seed suppliers that will give you the right seeds for YOUR garden, if you explain what you want them for and what sort of soil you have in your garden.

 

Together we can do something about this and create Bee sanctuaries in our gardens, across the land and to encourage you further I am going to give away one of my Bee Books

 

 

"How to make nesting boxes for Bees, to use or sell"

by Greenjackdavey,

the Environmentalist & Eco-activist.

 

Written in plain English this little guide reveals where and how bees like to nest in the wild.

 

With this newly learned knowledge, you can then go on to design and build nesting boxes for solitary bees and bumblebees for your garden.

 

This is a totally practical guide will show you step by step, with plans, how to construct a range of nest boxes to use or sell and encourage others to help the Bees.

 

(It also reveals an original design that you can use, never before seen, based on a little known technique used by victorian cottagers. )

 

The techniques in this report alone are worth a small fortune, if you are looking for some home based business ideas.

 

So if you're really serious about saving the bees , you will have to act NOW.

 

You need to take immediate action. With-in a few minutes you will be downloading and reading the incredible"Making Bee Nesting Boxes"... and using it to !

 

And here's some great news for you:

This book is for a limited time being given away free as a special bonus!

 

Click here for details!

 

 

 

Best Wishes

Greenjackdavey