Grow a bee friendly garden // Bee Attracting Plants // The Gardenettes

Bee's - what's all the buzz about and why do we need them in our garden? When I tell you that 1 in mouthfuls of the food that we eat is thanks to the work of bees and that 90% of all food crops are pollinated by bees... then you begin to understand just how important these supply!

So attracting bees into your garden not only helps pollinate your fruit and veggies, but it can actually help pollinate fruit and vegies on farms up to five kilometres away - because bees will travel that far for the sweet nectar.

Creating a bee-friendly garden at your place is easy - it can be as simple as some pots of flowering plants or as elaborate as a full flowering mass planted border just make sure you've got things in flower in every season.

Bright and sweetly scented flowers like these Bidens are irresistible to bees and I can smell why! Bidens are long flowering with a low growing habit and masses of these sunshine yellow, long-lasting flowers. They love full sun and a good trim back once they've finished flowering.

You could also try including some Pentas to bring in the bees - these tiny star-shaped flowers come in red, white or lavender shades and the bees just love them! Cut these plants back hard in winter to encourage oodles of new growth in the spring. Now of course once you've attracted bees into your garden you want to make sure that you're not going to harm them or worse kill them!

So if you need to use an insecticide or a fungicide choose one from the eco organic garden range these are certified organic and absolutely safe for bees.

Check out the range from eco organic garden here: https://ecoorganicgarden.com.au/

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