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Plants to please pollinators

“Gardens are important oases of biodiversity that can play a vital role in insect pollinator conservation”

Most flowering plants need pollinators to help them set seed and reproduce. We need them too because the majority of food crops require insect pollination and the demand for crop pollination is growing fast. Pollination is important – probably far more than we even realise. And this ancient bartering system between plants and insects has been around for over 100 million years. It’s still happening today in our gardens, all around us.

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