Floral visitors
by Chris, 23 October, 2013, 4 comments
Bees are (usually) frequent visitors to our gardens. Gardening catalogues and websites are ‘always’ extolling the virtues of particular flowers / plants in terms of attracting insect visitors to our gardens. These insect visitors are important pollinators – not just for garden flowers, but also for fruit trees and other soft fruits. But is there any evidence about the ‘best flowers’ to plant for insect visitors – other than “opinion and general experience”.
Now some research on this has been done by the Department of Apiculture at the University of Sussex. The Department and Professor Ratnieks (which have featured in the woodland blog before) are involved in “The Sussex Plan for Honey Bee Health and Well being”. Read more...
