A blog about trying to live a green life in the city with as much of a country feel as possible. Vegetables, foraging, preserves, crafts, wildlife, community, recycling, cycling... Helen, Leyton, London, E10
Friday, June 15, 2012
Bee flowers not bee hives
I have thought it strange that in the face of the problems bees are facing we are often encouraged to start keeping bees. I thought this would increase the competition bees faced finding food.
I thought growing more flowers that beeds liked would be a far better thing to do (and am delighted with how many bees and other insects I have feeding in my garden between the showers).
In the Evening Standard today there was an article telling how "Too many hives mean not enough food and falling honey yields". So my logic was right!
If you look carefully you can see a bumble bee's bottom!
Apologies - there must be a trick to getting the photo to appear it the right place!
Labels:
bees,
bumble bees,
plants for insects
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