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of lavender, covered with fat bumblebees and the odd butterfly.Honeysuckle, which I’ll train to grow up my house so, when I open the windows in summer, I can smell its sweet fragrance.A large patch of viper’s bugloss, one of the best plants for bees.I’ve never

, comfrey and lavender in a pot and it's going to look great in July. It will be also alive with the buzzing of bees (I hope my whole garden will be).I'd love everyone to grow such plants in their gardens, but I realise this isn't realistic. Wild flowers

in their wake. There's a tiny lavender (grown from a cutting) and a hebe (a gift - not my favourite plant but loved by bees), which will grow in time. My callicarpa died. Planting large(ish) shrubs will be my first job of 2011.I'm hoping some of this year

Guerrilla gardening, the subject of a recent radio programme, is the act of gardening on public or private land without permission. Many guerrilla gardeners grow plants on neglected council land, traffic islands, graveyards, road verges and canal

feeding, nesting and hibernation preferences. Tongue lengths determine which flowers the bees can feed on, so grow flowers with long corollas like red clover, honeysuckle and foxgloves to attract long-tongued bumblebees like the commmon carder (Bombus