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Inula hookeri is a great one for bumblebees and I find bees of all sorts love forget-me-nots. If, like me, you want a good harvest of beans you have to consider they need pollination which means lots of food plants. I respect so-called weeds

This year, having grown camassias for the first time , I find the bees love them. The bees need all the help we can give them at the present time, not only because of the mysterious decimation they are going through, but also because more and more

Hi All, We have a small box shaped hive in our garden. Last year we had some bees in our hive. We loved seeing them buzzing around. One very sad day we opened the hive and the bees were all dead. The appeared to have been destroyed by some white

I saw my first Bee today buzzing around my Hydrangea. I don't think I have ever seen a bee in January, it has got to be the very mild winter we are having. I want to encourage more bees and wild life into the garden this year so seeing this little

I'm taking part in a sustainable initiative that wants to help save bees in London. We would really appreciate some information from people interested in gardenening to help push our project forward and make it as good as it can be. Here are a few

I have this problem on one of my rose cuttings, but don't mind it now I know it's a bee and presumably it will have had enough soon and leave my rose alone! busy bee's have totally defoliated a climbing rose which hasn't flowered for 3 years

I've failed to attract bees to my garden for as long as I can remember, but this year I haven't given myself a budget, so am looking for any perennials that attract wildlife, preferably clump forming or ones that seed themself, so I'm able to make

I think I have a leaf cutter bee nesting in the bottom of a plant , she seems to be alone at the moment. I have seen her going in and out of the drainage holes, but this is the first time I have seen her with part of a leaf. Should i just leave her

i have been planting wild flowers for bees for the last 4 years but this year I went even further by not cutting the grass.We are so keen on short lawns that we deprive the bees of primary foods ,dandelions,butter cups and the most important wild

I have just unwrapped some fleece from some plants I was protecting from frost when I was horrified to discover some bees trapped in the threads. Most were already dead and even those still alive still had threads caught in their legs and could