This blog is all about bees. How on earth did we decide to write about bees? We watched a documentary called Cities: Natures New Wild. There was a bit about bees and how they had to commute a long way from their nest to get to the flowers. At the end of the programme, there was a message about how we need to make our cities greener to encourage wildlife. A campaign called 10 times greener was mentioned and we decided to look it up online. It turned out that the campaign was run by Friends of the Earth, so we went to visit their website. That’s where we found out much more about bees and how we can help to save them.
We ordered a Bee Saver Kit from the website and it arrived on Friday. The kit contained seeds for the garden, a pamphlet, a bee identification poster and a garden planner. We used the planner to choose some plants for the garden. These were Hellebore, Rosemary, Chives, Raspberry, Runner Beans and Hebe. This will give us some flowers for the next few months to attract more bees into the garden.
You can find out more about the campaign here: https://friendsoftheearth.uk/bees