How and Why You Should Try to Attact Honey Bees?

How and Why You Should Try To Attract Honey Bees to Your Vegetable Garden

Far too few gardeners seem to take seriously the welfare of bees in their gardens. This is unfortunate, for not only do honeybees produce honey for someone else, but bees of all types play an essential role in pollination. They are probably the number one effective agents of pollination. Not only that bees help your garden pollinate, bees are also predators to harmful pests that are present in your garden. Please don’t kill them or spray insecticides on them.

All insecticides are just what their name implies – killers of insects – and with few exceptions will annihilate the creatures of beneficial effect as readily as the pests. Of if you use insecticides in your garden, you need to understand that there are certain safety precautions involved. Note that bees are insects too and if you spray too and if you try to kill them, you are absolutely making a big mistake. Bees protect you garden from pests infestation. If that so, what if your garden is consistently visited by a number of bees every day? Fast pollination and less infestations. There are a lot of ways on how you can attract bees coming in toy your garden and one simple trick is to plant.

Plants to Please The Bees

Did you know that there are certain plants that attracts honey bees? Mints and thymes are among the plants which are especially attractive to bees, and they will positively hum with life in the early summer. Heathers and lavenders also make good bee plants. Others which, between them, flower for several months are Cotoneaster horizontails (which flowers in June), Mahonia aquifolium (March-April), geranium species (May-August), Sedum spectabile (September-October), brooms (April-May), flowering currant (April) and michaelmas daises (September).

Many native British flowers also bring bees in by the dozen. So even if you don’t want a wholly wild garden, you can still draw in plenty of bees with a patch set aside as a...