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Bee-Friendly Plants: Catnip

KBB Editor — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:00:58 +0000

The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that support bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: pick the […]

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Bee-Friendly Plants: Lupine

KBB Editor — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:43:20 +0000

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Bee-Friendly Plants: Fireweed

KBB Editor — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:13:59 +0000

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Top 5 Plants for Late Season Nectar

Claire Jones — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:59:23 +0000

Editor’s note: The author’s garden is likely in plant hardiness zone 6b or 7a. This is reflected in the plants selected this post. Nectar dearth is a phrase that you hear frequently in beekeeping. Simply put, it means that instead of your honeybees finding readily available nectar and pollen-producing flowers, they are chowing down on their stored honey. […]

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Prairie Blazing Star: Native Plant Review

Rachel Cunning — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:02:37 +0000

Prairie Blazing Stars are spectacular spiky, towering flowers that, to my imaginative mind at least, look like fireworks exploding across the prairie. These native flowers attract a plethora of native insects and honeybees for their nectar sources. If you are considering adding additional native flowers to your pollinator garden this year, Prairie Blazing Stars can […]

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Plant Trees for Bees

Hilary Kearney — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:10:59 +0000

When people ask me how they can help bees, I used to say, “Plant a pollinator garden!” I would then rattle off a list of bee-friendly flowers and shrubs to get them started. Then I had an epiphany. A tree provides much more forage than any patch of flowers ever could. It’s so obvious, but […]

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Please Bees With Germander

KBB Editor — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:31:12 +0000

An herb garden is traditionally a busy place, with bees buzzing from plant to plant, their fuzzy little bodies perfect for trapping pollen and transporting it to the next flower. But declining bee populations means that we can no longer take these beneficial visitors for granted; we need to lure them with a choice selection […]

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