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New PlantforLife Guide promoting bee friendly plants
PlantforLife, in association with The British Beekeepers Association, have produced a downloadable guide to planting to attract bees in your garden.
As British gardens are the largest nature reserve in the UK, PlantforLife, has produced the bee friendly guide. Accredited by The British Beekeepers’ Association, the factsheet provides a list of plants – together with tips on how and when to plant and care for them – that will encourage bees back into the garden. The plants featured in the guide include: buddleja, cornflowers, corn poppies, flowering currants, foxgloves, heathers, honeysuckle, lamb’s ear, lavender, sea holly, sedum and sunflowers.
Available to download at www.plantforlife.info/bees garden retailers are encouraged to print them out and display next to bee-friendly plants such as lavender, corn poppies and sedum.
Tim Lovett, Director of Public Affairs at the British Beekeepers Association said: “The British Beekeepers Association was delighted to be able to assist the HTA in the preparation of their PlantforLife Bee Friendly campaign materials. The HTA is keen to encourage gardeners to help bees which are struggling against a number of problems and the advice the HTA has made available will make its own important contribution in the fight to help our bees.”
5 reasons why we should encourage bees into our gardens:
Bees add charm and character to our gardens, bringing them to life
Creating a garden for wildlife can be a project the whole family can become involved in from toddlers to Mums and Dads!
Encouraging bees also attracts hoverflies and other beneficial insects into the garden, helping to control pests and protect garden plants
A third of all the food we eat is on our table thanks to bees pollinating our crops; so looking after bees is actually the same as looking after ourselves
Bees can help make your garden more productive, especially if you grow vegetables or have fruit trees that need to be pollinated.
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