Anyone have any good tips to start a pollinators garden? I like gardening and attracting life but I want to know any good plants/ flowers that would be good for attracting pollinators.

You may be interested in this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/where-to-get-native-plants-for-a-pollinator-garden/1059

Pollination gardens are myopic and so silly if they are regarded as something akin to a complete garden in terms of their creator giving back to nature. Trendy, this year’s fashion statement for competition gardeners. Before you ask the question “What are the best flowers for a pollinators garden?…

Which bees? Exotic (feral) or native? Please clarify, as there is a huge difference! Thanks in advance.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1366-9516.2001.00120.x

[image] davemmdave: Trendy, this year’s fashion statement for competition gardeners. Here in the UK that is worryingly true. Put a log pile, a multi-occupancy bug hotel, a bird table, and a few pretty “bee friendly” flowers in an odd corner of the garden and you have the trendy middle-class m…

Ujubee is studying our wild bees at Cape Point national park. Such fascinating diversity and biology. Urban beehives in Durban were a previous chapter of her life. Now she studies the wild hives, with a propolis wall which protects them from wildfires. Lots of oil and resin to harvest from fynbos. W…

[image] davemmdave: All other gardens are artifices ,which is better than concrete or monoculture but why compromise? Over here in the US, if you let your garden go “back to nature” you can almost count on being challenged unless you’re in a rural area with no neighbors nearby. You may get a …

[image] teellbee: A chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society (ANPS) may be able to provide some direct support. I second the recommendation for getting in touch with your local native plant society. They probably know best what grows well in your area and may have lists already prepared wi…

Feral bees can be bees that were brought in for agricultural/domestic/apiculture purposes but have managed to establish themselves in the wild. Western Honey Bees are thought to have originated in Africa and spread to Europe in two ancient migrations and then were domesticated at some point and have…

Ohh ok, Id like to attract native bees to my garden because I want to bring more pollinators to the area

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