When the late season garden starts to fade from summer’s heat, dahlias are one of the best choices to add delightful months-long displays of brilliantly colored blooms.The timing of these flowers is perfect!From July until t
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Bees, the cute winged insects that make sure to keep the pollination alive, are the most important part of our ecosystem. Unfortunately, the honey bee colonies are decreasing alarmingly, which can have an adverse effect on our climate. So, how about playing your little part and learning the ways to Attract Bees to Your Garden!
The best way to attract bees to your garden is to plant plenty of flowers of bright and vivid colors. Native blooms that are a rich source of nectar, like butterfly bush, lantana, sunflower, sweet alyssum, salvia, and cosmos, are the best ones to grow.
We all know how bees pollinate fruits and flowers and increase crop production. The main benefit of inviting and providing habitat to bees is improved yielding and healthy fruiting.
Your veggies and fruits will not grow in irregular shapes and sizes, and your harvest rate will increase, too. Encouraging bees will allow other pollinators like butterflies and hummingbirds to visit your garden.
Bees, unlike wasps, are lovely buzzing creatures that seldom sting. Most bee species are defensive rather than attacking and sting only in defense.
A bee garden attracts these winged insects and provides a natural habitat for them. With slight alterations like growing bee-friendly plants, providing shelter, and changing your gardening habits, you can easily make it!
To make a bee-friendly garden, avoid using harmful pesticides and fertilizers in your garden. Go Organic! Bees are so tender that chemicals in these products directly influence their life. You can use organic pesticides like Neem oil and more compost and aged manure instead of inorganic fertilizers.
Grow more local and native plants in your garden because bees are attracted to native and wild varieties of
When the late season garden starts to fade from summer’s heat, dahlias are one of the best choices to add delightful months-long displays of brilliantly colored blooms.The timing of these flowers is perfect!From July until t
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