Bee Friendly Garden Design

Aim for continuous flowering all year.

Bee friendly garden design. Making a bee friendly garden designing a bee garden. Make a wildflower meadow for bees. Sedums single flowered dahlias verbena bonariensis japanese anemones autumn asters actaea simplex.

Worldwide of the 100 crop species that provide 90 of the world s food over 70 are pollinated by bees. You can bolster the pollinator population in your area by making your landscape a bee friendly oasis. Salvia especially the blue flowering variety attracts bees.

A bee friendly garden is a family friendly garden. Here are the most effective ways you can give these amazing insects what they need to thrive. It s designed for our pollinator garden bed but can be used for any small space planting.

Well it is estimated that 78 of flowering plants rely on bees and other insects to reproduce. How so you may say. Even just a few containers with colorful plants can help but the more you can view your garden from a bee s perspective the better.

While the bees are sipping nectar and collecting pollen you ll enjoy a colorful garden that produces flowers in every season spring through fall. Wildflowers such as cornflowers cowslips and the common poppy are all brilliant for bees and other wildlife. Put out the welcome mat for honeybees native bees and other beneficial insects.

Yates phacelia is renowned for its appeal to good garden insects including hoverflies and honeybees. Lavender agastache erysimum bowles mauve scabious comfrey foxgloves cardoon echinops autumn. Inviting an array of bees into your own backyard is simple when you plant their favorite flowers.