How to make a bee-friendly garden | The RHS

Helen Bostock, RHS Senior Horticultural Advisor, gives advice on making your garden bee friendly, with perfect plants for pollinators and creating bee habitats.

[CaliforniaGleamin]

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[danjackson]

its all well and good that gardeners do their bit and refuse to buy grotesque and unnatural double flowers,
but unless farmers and large scale landowners change their ways...we humans are f*cked as a species.
we need all of our farmers to put back the hedges they ripped up, all the ponds they filled in and restore the
flower rich meadows they vandalised in the pursuit of efficiency or profit. i can forgive the wartime generation, who were incentivised to wreck the countryside, but farmers of the 21st century should be custodians and stewards of
the land and put right what was done out of ignorance by their predecessors.

[carl]

I made a bee garden in one bee...not one. 😢 I tried my hardest

[feathercrest]

Beekeeping does not help pollinator conservation, it puts increased competitive pressure on what are already limited floral resources. Best thing to do is plant plant plant, and native is best. DO YOUR RESEARCH RHS!!

[eco-beehive]

Hello Helen. I build the only honey bee habitat in the world. I need your help. I would like to talk and shout about it at any available RHS show or talk or dinner or whatever!! Can you help?? Kevin