World Bee Day: Create a bee-friendly garden
Hi greenthumbs! Happy World Bee Day!
I love bees so much! World Bee Day is on 20 May, and to celebrate, I thought I'd share my best ideas on how to make a bee-friendly garden! But first, can I tell you why I love bees?!
Pollination
When the bees visit my garden, they buzz straight to my flowers and stick their heads in to get the nectar and pollen. The pollen gets stuck on them.
If you watch honeybees closely, you might see that some of them have little yellow pollen pants! This is actually the pollen and nectar that sticks to the hairs on their little legs.
The bees help move pollen from one flower to another – and this is what’s called ‘pollination’. It’s important because pollination makes our flowering plants grow the fruit, vegetables and nuts that we eat. A third of all the food we eat relies on bees for pollination.
Ok, so let’s get your garden buzzing!
Here are three ways to create a bee-friendly garden.
Plant bee-friendly plants
These are some of the best bee-friendly garden plants that you might like to plant in your garden or put in pots. Maybe you have some of them already? Different bees like different types of flowers, so try to plant lots of different types of plants (with different coloured flowers) in your bee garden!
Build a bee hotel
You can encourage bees to visit your garden or pot plants by making a bee hotel. Native bees just love to hang out in these hideaways.
Give the bees a drink
Help out the bees by making bee water stations in your garden. You can use shallow containers or saucers with a small amount of water. Pop a few rocks into the containers so your bees have something to sit on (we don’t want them to get stuck in the water!).
We need the bees, and the bees need us to help look after them and their flowers.
Have fun getting buzzy at your house.
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