Bee Friendly Garden Design

Both the bee attracting flowers and the leaves are edible.

Bee friendly garden design. Salvia especially the blue flowering variety attracts bees. Here are a few simple steps to get wildflowers blooming in your garden. Here are the most effective ways you can give these amazing insects what they need to thrive.

You can bolster the pollinator population in your area by making your landscape a bee friendly oasis. A world without bees will therefore be an impoverished and hungry world. Choose local native varieties of flowering plants edible and ornamental that stagger flowering throughout the year.

By filling your garden with a variety including annuals perennials shrubs trees ground covers vegetables and herbs you ll attract a greater diversity of bee species. By providing nectar and pollen as food and creating shelters in your garden space you will create new habitat for bees which is important as their natural habitats become less and less. Making a bee friendly garden designing a bee garden.

A bee friendly garden is a family friendly garden. Lavender agastache erysimum bowles mauve scabious comfrey foxgloves cardoon echinops autumn. Even just a few containers with colorful plants can help but the more you can view your garden from a bee s perspective the better.

Bee friendly plants for every season summer. Worldwide of the 100 crop species that provide 90 of the world s food over 70 are pollinated by bees. Wildflowers such as cornflowers cowslips and the common poppy are all brilliant for bees and other wildlife.

Inviting an array of bees into your own backyard is simple when you plant their favorite flowers. Pick up wildflower seed mixes at your local garden centre or by ordering a bee saver kit from us. It s designed for our pollinator garden bed but can be used for any small space planting.