pickHi from MIA land, otherwise known as my garden! I‘ve just been so obsessed with getting my backyard reno done during the day then I‘m too knackered at night to read anything much. I did finish this new book I just bought, all about the types of bees including our Aussie native bees(they‘re so cute!)and what to plant to attract them into your garden. Bees are so important, 9/10 foods you eat start from bee pollination. #chemicalfreegardens🐝 #bzzzz
Cathythoughts Lovely picture ✨ 4y
gradcat Bees ARE important...what a great way to conceive of your garden! 4y
squirrelbrain I love 🐝 too! That book looks great! 4y
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Crazeedi I hear you, my garden has me exhausted at the end of the day. Bees are critical, we love seeing them pollinating or flowers and veggies! 4y
TheAromaofBooks I've been spending a lot of time in the garden, too!! Love mixing flowers in with the veggies to help encourage the bees - so happy to see them bustling about!! 4y
SamAnne Yay! If we all do our part we can help these important critters. We have a lot of native bees and honey bees, other pollinators in our garden space as well. 4y
CarolynM We've done a bit of "bee friendliness" to our garden this year too. We'd started to notice there were less of them about. Hope to see more this spring ? 4y
Lizpixie @Cathythoughts thank you!🌸 @gradcat @squirrelbrain @Crazeedi @TheAromaofBooks @SamAnne @CarolynM I‘m so happy to hear more bee lovers! Far too often we reach for chemicals the minute there‘s any pests in our gardens, not thinking of the consequences to friendly bugs, all of them not just bees. There‘s wasps, beetles & spiders that help too that are killed. Too much hysteria about bee allergies hasn‘t helped, just leave them bee🐝☺️ 4y
Lizpixie @CarolynM have you made a Bee Hotel for them? 4y
CarolynM No, haven't heard of that. What is it? 4y
Lizpixie @CarolynM you fill a box frame with small logs and branches with holes drilled into them, bamboo with open ends, woody stems with holes, bundles of sticks and pipes filled with soft clay that has holes poked in, then sit it about waist height in your garden for native bees and other beneficial insects to make their homes in it. Or you can buy small ready made ones from Bunnings or nurseries. Just google it, I have a small one in my gum tree🐝🦋🐞 4y
CarolynM Thanks. I'll look into setting one up👍 4y
Crazeedi @CarolynM we have a small bee hotel in an apple tree. @TheAromaofBooks I have marigolds in my veggie garden this year, I plan to do more flowers in it next year, also planting herbs of all kinds attract bees. 4y
TheAromaofBooks @Crazeedi - Same here with the marigolds!! Also love to have lavender planted here & there... I use buckwheat as a cover crop for areas I am leaving fallow this year, which the bees also love. Sunflowers are fun because you can just stick them here & there. Cosmos & cornflowers are my other two favorites... I tend to let things come up volunteer as long as they aren't going crazy, so a lot of the flowers sort of grow wherever they want! 😂 4y
Crazeedi @TheAromaofBooks I have sunflowers growing by our corn patches, and yes the volunteers are great, chippys plant a lot lol! We have comfrey along the edge of the garden too, which attracts insects too 4y
Lizpixie @Crazeedi @TheAromaofBooks I currently have a big pot of primulas and pansies in my patch and a big pot of alyssum and violas, plus lots of herbs & nasturtiums. I have calendulas, cornflowers, nigella & poppies started in my greenhouse waiting for Spring. I‘m planting my Giant Russian Sunflower seedlings once this storm front goes away, the flower heads are as big as dinner plates!🌻 4y
Lizpixie Oh, and cosmos, lupins & coneflowers too🌸🌼🌺 4y
Crazeedi @Lizpixie that sounds just glorious!! 4y
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