Particularly difficult periods for honey bees occur during warm, early-spring days when bees emerge from hives searching for food but few plants are flowering. The natural environment often does not ...

Want to know the core plants you can grow to add beauty while helping beneficial garden friends? Discover the best ...

Bees are always attracted to the purple flower of the rosemary ... let my chives go to seed and always plant zinnias amongst my vegetables. Having a patch of wildflowers in the corner of your ...

It’s said that Lavender grows best in dry and arid conditions, but it’s a plant that can thrive in many parts of the world. I have colorful Lavender flowers here in gray and cold England, and that ...

While honeybees are not native to the United States, we do have 29 varieties of bees that are native to North Florida and ...

The researchers found that the horned-face bees tended to prefer plants with a large number of flowers—for them, quantity was most important. Meanwhile, the alfalfa leafcutting bees tended to ...

Morris Hankinson, Director at Hopes Grove Nurseries has lifted the lid on his favourite colourful winter-flowering plants ... to share a garden with birds, bees, butterflies and all the other ...

When it comes to deciding where they're going to get their next meal, different species of bees may be attracted to different flower traits.

Here are plants and flowers to enjoy, one for every month of the year, from lilacs, camellias and poinsettias to native buckwheat, wildflowers and toyon.

Favored Flora: Bumble bees are generalists pollinators, which means they can forage nectar and pollen from a wide variety of plants. Some species have very long tongues that enable them to sip nectar ...