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Create potential
nest sites
Encourage natural
predators
Have long as well Bees don’t just need
as short grass nectar and pollen. Nest
sites and water are just
as important
dandelions, blackberries, asters, ivy, Download your free
and willow, are as attractive to a Wild Bee action pack
foraging honey bee as your carefully
cultivated borders. To make it easy for everyone to help wild bees,
we’ve produced a short e-booklet. In it you’ll
A garden without bees not learn how our many different types of bees
only reduces its fertility but also live, why they are threatened – and what you
diminishes its beauty. You can keep can do to help them flourish. For example, you
bees as I do, or simply provide a can revive a tired bee with sugar solution. Find
source of food for them. But one the booklet on wildaboutgardensweek.org.uk,
thing is certain: we cannot do our long-running collaboration with the RHS.
without them. So as gardeners we
should do everything we can to summer 2017 NATURAL WORLD 13
welcome them as an integral part of
a beautiful garden.
