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🌸🌿 Planting pollinators in your garden is a win-win! Not only do you get a beautiful, vibrant garden, but you also support essential wildlife. Here’s why you should consider it: 1. **Boosts Biodiversity**: Attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, enhancing your garden's ecosystem. 2. **Improves Plant Health**: Pollinators help plants reproduce, resulting in healthier, more abundant blooms. 3. **Supports Food Production**: Many fruits and vegetables rely on pollinators, so you’re helping secure food sources. 4. **Environmental Impact**: Reduces the need for pesticides and promotes a healthier planet. 5. **Educational**: Great way to learn about and teach others the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. Add some pollinator-friendly plants like lavender, sunflowers, and milkweed to your garden today! Here are a few that we have planted at our garden! #PlantForPollinators #GardenGoals #SaveTheBees #ButterflyGarden #EcoFriendly #Biodiversity #SustainableGardening #NatureLovers #GreenLiving #GardeningTips

🐝🌸Incorporating pollinator-friendly plants into your garden projects is a small change with big benefits! Here’s why: 1️⃣Boost Biodiversity: These plants attract a variety of pollinators, helping to create a vibrant and diverse ecosystem.🐝 2️⃣Support Food Production: Pollinators play a crucial role in the pollination of many crops. A healthy pollinator population can enhance the yield and quality of fruits, vegetables, and nuts. 🌽 3️⃣Sustain Wildlife: Many pollinators, like bees and butterflies, are vital to the life cycle of plants and other wildlife. Supporting them helps sustain the entire ecosystem. 🦋 4️⃣Beauty & Enjoyment: Pollinator-friendly plants are often beautiful, adding color and life to your garden while allowing you to enjoy the presence of butterflies, bees, and birds. 🐦 Help our planet thrive—start planting for pollinators today! 🌼💛 https://lnkd.in/eTGG2vBv

Shout out to bees 🐝 on World Bee Day! Did you know bees contribute to the pollination of an estimated 87% of the world’s flowering plants? This makes their preservation crucial so the declining bee population - impacted by habitat destruction, widespread pesticide use, climate change and disease - poses a serious threat to global biodiversity. The good news is we can all play our part and support bees by planting nectar-rich flowers 🌸 (ideally a variety blooming at different times of the year), creating habitats (including installing bee hotels) and keeping gardening organic. It doesn't take much to create safer, bee-friendly environments, and don't forget to dissolve white granulated sugar into water for that all important bee tonic! #savethebees #worldbeeday #pollinators

World Bee Day 🐝    This annual event raises awareness about the essential role that bees and other pollinators play in maintaining our ecosystems and supporting agriculture.     How Can You Help Bees and Pollinators?  🐝 Avoid using pesticides - Reduce or eliminate the use of harmful chemicals in your garden.  🐝 Plant bee-friendly flowers - Create bee-friendly habitats by planting flowers that attract bees.  🐝 Choose to create a ‘green roof’ on your next project rather than the more traditional options.    We recently installed Sedum Modular Roof trays covering the entire nursery roof for a client.  Beyond enhancing aesthetics, these nearly self-sustaining roof trays foster lush grass and wildflower expanses. Particularly beneficial in urban settings, green roofs teeming with herbs and vibrant vegetation provide essential food and breeding grounds for butterflies, hoverflies and bees!!     Connect with our friendly team today to discuss your bee friendly projects! 🐝 #WorldBeeDay #savetheplanet #biodiversity #rasico #wildlife #outdoorspaces #rooftrays #loveconstruction 

World Bee Day 🐝    This annual event raises awareness about the essential role that bees and other pollinators play in maintaining our ecosystems and supporting agriculture.     How Can You Help Bees and Pollinators?  🐝 Avoid using pesticides - Reduce or eliminate the use of harmful chemicals in your garden.  🐝 Plant bee-friendly flowers - Create bee-friendly habitats by planting flowers that attract bees.  🐝 Choose to create a ‘green roof’ on your next project rather than the more traditional options.    We recently installed Sedum Modular Roof trays covering the entire nursery roof for a client.  Beyond enhancing aesthetics, these nearly self-sustaining roof trays foster lush grass and wildflower expanses. Particularly beneficial in urban settings, green roofs teeming with herbs and vibrant vegetation provide essential food and breeding grounds for butterflies, hoverflies and bees!!     Connect with our friendly team today to discuss your bee friendly projects! 🐝 #WorldBeeDay #savetheplanet #biodiversity #rasico #wildlife #outdoorspaces #rooftrays #loveconstruction 

🍯 It’s World Bee Day today and at Chartway, we celebrate the incredible impact bees have on our environment every day! 🐝 #TheChartwayBee Did you know our Kent head office has its very own bee hive? It's a symbol of our commitment to supporting pollinators and promoting biodiversity. Bees play a crucial role in pollinating the plants that sustain us, and their well-being directly affects the health of our planet. Here are a few ways you can help support bees💛🍯 🌼 Plant Bee-Friendly Flowers: Add a splash of colour to your garden with native wildflowers and plants. Bees love a variety of blooms, and you’ll love the beauty they bring to your space! 🚫 Avoid Pesticides: Opt for natural pest control methods to keep your garden safe for bees and other beneficial insects. 💧 Create a Bee Bath: A shallow dish filled with water and pebbles gives bees a safe place to hydrate. 🍯 Support Local Beekeepers: Purchase honey and beeswax products from local sources to help sustain beekeeping initiatives. For more ideas on bee-ing helpful to our pollinator friends, visit this link https://lnkd.in/eGAdqdWd Happy World Bee Day! 🌍🐝 #WorldBeeDay #ChartwayCares #BeeFriendly #Sustainability #PollinatorPower

Check out this amazing image I captured on my daily walk! This is the Eastern Common Bumble Bee, collecting pollen from Alpine Asters. Did you know that this bee is not only a pollinator for wildflowers, but also for numerous fruit and vegetable crops including tomatoes, blueberries, and cucumbers? It's even the only pollinator in my raspberry patch! Unlike European honey bees that make large amounts of honey for the entire colony to survive the winter, bumble bees only make enough to feed the colony for a couple of days during bad weather. This is because newly-mated bumble bee queens hibernate and don't need vast quantities of honey found in honey bee hives. However, pollinators worldwide are in decline due to habitat loss, invasive species, parasites, and pesticides. In North America, only 10% of native grasslands remain. We need to protect these grasslands, and as individuals, we can create sustainable gardens (even small ones) to help. DM me for advice! #nature

This week is #BeesNeedsWeek 🐝🌼 An annual event coordinated by #Defra which aims to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, and share ideas, actions and activities that highlight the ways in which everyone can help bees and other pollinators to thrive. Here are a few easy ways you can help the bees in your garden: 🐝 Create a Bee-Friendly garden by planting nectar-rich flowers that range in shapes, sizes, colors, and bloom times and seek out locally native plants as often as possible as many bee species have coevolved to feed exclusively on native flowers and need them to survive. 🐝 Create a Bee Bath using a shallow bird bath or bowl with clean water, and fill with pebbles and stones that break the water’s surface for the bees to take a long, refreshing drink. 🐝 Build a Bee Hotel using a wooden box or tin can filled with bamboo canes or tubes, bees lay their eggs in tunnels, such as in dead wood or hard soil. A bee hotel mimics these conditions, providing easily accessible space for egg-laying. If you want to learn more about polinators and their benefits here is a link to an informative article on polination in the UK written by Amelia Marshall ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e6umkqrT Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs #Trustgreen #Polination #Beesneedsweek #Rootedinnature #Beefriendly

As part of the countdown to TAFU’s Local Wildlife Day https://lnkd.in/eRXHbZ6D on the 11th of July – Species no. 39. Stay tuned – 4 more days and 4 more species until then! Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a perennial herbaceous plant, growing nearly up to a meter tall, easily recognised by its finely dissected, fern-like leaves and flat-topped clusters of tiny flowers. These flowers range in colour from white to pink and bloom from June to August, sometimes running to October, attracting a variety of pollinators, including bees and butterflies. Yarrow is highly adaptable and can be found in a wide range of habitats, including meadows, grasslands, roadsides, and gardens. It prefers well-drained soil and full sun but can tolerate partial shade. Its ability to thrive in various conditions makes it a valuable plant for erosion control and soil stabilisation. This plant has a rich history of use in traditional medicine. Yarrow has been used for centuries to treat wounds, reduce inflammation, and alleviate digestive issues. It contains compounds such as flavonoids and tannins, which contribute to its astringent and anti-inflammatory properties. Yarrow tea is often used to soothe colds and fevers, while its fresh leaves can be applied directly to the skin to stop bleeding. Yarrow also plays an important ecological role. It attracts beneficial insects, such as predatory wasps and ladybugs. Additionally, it serves as a larval food plant for some butterfly species. Its deep roots help improve soil structure and nutrient cycling. Avoiding the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides can help to create a healthy environment for Yarrow and other native plants. #TAFU #TAFUsLocalWildlifeDay #TAFUsLWD #LocalWildlife #Nature #Sustainability #ClimateChange #Conservation #NatureConservation #NatureLovers

Garden Talk: Growing a Bee-friendly Garden There’s something lovely about a garden alive with bees industriously going about their work. They are also vital for pollinating our food, such as nuts, vegetables and fruit. But since they’re sadly in decline due to a loss of habitats and the use of pesticides, the more we can encourage them into our gardens, the better. Read the full article on our website https://lnkd.in/dW38G4gk