Ten Things You Can Do to Help Bees

We can all do our bit for the bees around us.  Here are ten things you can do to help bees.
1.    Let there be weeds in your garden

Weeds provide excellent forage for all types of bees (honey bees, bumble bees and solitary bees).
If you have space, why not allow a ‘wild area’ in your garden, where you can literally throw a handful of wild flower seeds and see what comes up over the following years.  It takes a long time to establish a true wild flower meadow (and NO FERTILIZER!) but even in the first year when you let the weeds flourish, you will find that there are hundreds of little native flowers which the bees will really appreciate.  Remember, to bees, the lawn is just a desert.
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