I thought this was interesting. So gals..start planting flowers in your yards. Native flowers. You can find wildflower seeds from many different sources..I encourage you to do so..clear a small plot in your backyard and put a little picket fence around it..or even put a little bench at the back of the patch with a small stone path leading to your bench..and enjoy the show! We have done the wildflower garden plantings for several years here in our city backyard..and I tell you..it is one of the most enjoyable things we have done here. It definitely drew quite a bit of native bees and even honeybees too. As well as butterflies. Anyhow..try it sometime..you'll be glad you did. And I just wanted to share this article too..I found it to be interesting...and right on track with what an entomologist at the University of Florida in Gainseville told me would be of benefit to the bee situation... if more people would plant native/wild flowers to help the bees.
I noticed Burt's Bee (the company) was giving out packages of wild flower seeds and encouraging people to plant, plant, plant....Tina, I think this is a "whole new revalution in the making :)
Roadside Native Plantings Helping the Bees
Posted - Sep 16 2008 : 12:47:49 AM
