The constant gardener
Oct 21, 2020
3 minutes
Text Mary Lovell-Smith
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How to attract more bees to the garden
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Bees love flowers. From them they get nectar for energy and pollen for protein and other nutrients. So, aim to have flowers for as many months of the year as possible, from the middle of summer when the bees are most active, through autumn when they need to stock up for the cold months ahead, and winter itself when there isn’t much around.
Don’t limit their food supplies to annual and perennial flowers. Flowers on herbs, vegetables, shrubs, climbers and trees, and even weeds (another reason to
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