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How To Grow Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

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by Matt Gibson If you would like to attract a continuous visitation from various butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden (who wouldn’t?), consider adding butterfly weed to your flower garden beds this season. The one and a half to two and a half foot-tall perennial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Birds & Butterflies Tagged With: attracting bees, attracting butterflies, attracting pollinators, butterflies, pollinators

How To Grow Viper’s Bugloss (Echium vulgare, Blueweed)

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by Matt Gibson Viper’s bugloss is an odd-looking flower that's important to grow in your flower garden if you care about bees. Its thick stem is covered in black spots and spiky hairs. Vibrant blue trumpet-shaped flowers are highlighted by red tongue-like filaments. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flowers Tagged With: attracting bees, bee garden, bee habitats, vipers bugloss

How to Build a Bee Habitat

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by Matt Gibson It is no secret that bees and plants have a symbiotic relationship: Bees feed on plants’ nectar, and in turn, the bees carry pollen from flower to flower, helping create new generations of plants. For a robust garden that entertains all sorts of visitors, create … [Read more...]

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How to Grow a Honey Bee Garden

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  Bees pollinate over 100 agricultural crops in the United States, including almonds, citrus, apples, melons, plums, avocadoes, cranberries, strawberries, and sunflowers. Without bees, many of our food crops would fail. About one-third of our food crops rely on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Birds & Butterflies, Growing Flowers Tagged With: attracting bees, bee, bee friendly plants, bee gardens, bee pollinators, honey bee, honey bee gardens, pollinators, save honey bees

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