Nice video, we are beekeepers in Somerset. Agreed they need help with pollen and nectar rich natural flowers. Planting flowers that flower throughout spring through to autumn will help the lil ladies much better than people leaving negative comment and sitting on their hands doing nothing. It's easy to be a critic but when it takes effort these people seem to disappear into the background. We have now 7 overwintered colonies and 7 more hives ready for splits this year 2018. We are in south Somerset in the uk. Planting perennials will ensure you get rich vibrant flowers year after year with a one off cost unlike annuals which only flower once. You could plant biannual's which flower twice within one season,but you need to plant them the following season again. We use a pollen sub in early spring to help the bees with much needed nutrients during the early part of spring to help with brood rearing. If you don't want to become a bee keeper and fancy helping your local ferrel bees make a pollen feeder. It's a piece of 4" gutter pipe around 18"s long with an end cap. On the other end put a open square cap on it will stop the rain from entering the pipe.drill one hole on the top near the front edge and thread a piece of nylon string through it tying a knot on the inside so it doesn't pull loose. Do the same at the rear of the pipe and leave the threads long enough to tie to a fence post or similar having the entrance slightly tilted forwards to stop rain entering the entrance. Next this is most expensive part but it will last you for a long long time. Look at Mann lake bee supplies or a similar bee keeping supplier and purchase a packet or tub of bee pro pollen substitute or similar brand. Put a couple of cups of the substitute into the tube a spread it so it covers the floor of the tube. If you do this early spring you will be helping ferrel colonies and indeed if you take up beekeeping your own as well with much needed food. If these instructions are hard to follow please look on you tube for either Jeff Horchoff and his pollen feeders that's where I got it from or any other diy pollen feeder. You will in turn be helping your own Eco system greatly. Bees are wonderful I wish I started 20 plus years ago, I'm early 50's and love beekeeping so so much. Thank you if you read this and pass it on to a friend or family for them to help as well.
We have a bed of newly (this spring) planted lavender and the bees are still feeding when it's warm enough, so we are waiting until they stop visiting before trimming it back. See video just uploaded on my youtube channel.
As long as they swarm the lavender for a sip, I think pretty much all lavender variations will help! My pollinator book mention only one lavender and it's the English one (lavandula angustifolia).
I found this video quite disappointing given that it was filmed by a Wildlife Trust with the intention of spreading the word about encouraging and protecting our bees. Whilst many of us readily can identify Digitalis, Hellebores, and Crocus, many of us cannot identify other flowers so easily. There was a long section of the film showing different flowers plants where the narrator did not speak, therefore not identifying those helpful plants for us. Sorry chaps, back to the drawing board.
I'm seeing geraniums, rosemary, mysotis/forget me nots, fox & cubs, cepholaria gigantia, bearded iris, white Valerian (plenty of info available on the web about bee plants - get a grip Ron!)
its all well and good that gardeners do their bit and refuse to buy grotesque and unnatural double flowers, but unless farmers and large scale landowners change their ways...we humans are f*cked as a species. we need all of our farmers to put back the hedges they ripped up, all the ponds they filled in and restore the flower rich meadows they vandalised in the pursuit of efficiency or profit. i can forgive the wartime generation, who were incentivised to wreck the countryside, but farmers of the 21st century should be custodians and stewards of the land and put right what was done out of ignorance by their predecessors.
Nice video, we are beekeepers in Somerset.
Agreed they need help with pollen and nectar rich natural flowers.
Planting flowers that flower throughout spring through to autumn will help the lil ladies much better than people leaving negative comment and sitting on their hands doing nothing.
It's easy to be a critic but when it takes effort these people seem to disappear into the background.
We have now 7 overwintered colonies and 7 more hives ready for splits this year 2018.
We are in south Somerset in the uk.
Planting perennials will ensure you get rich vibrant flowers year after year with a one off cost unlike annuals which only flower once.
You could plant biannual's which flower twice within one season,but you need to plant them the following season again.
We use a pollen sub in early spring to help the bees with much needed nutrients during the early part of spring to help with brood rearing.
If you don't want to become a bee keeper and fancy helping your local ferrel bees make a pollen feeder.
It's a piece of 4" gutter pipe around 18"s long with an end cap.
On the other end put a open square cap on it will stop the rain from entering the pipe.drill one hole on the top near the front edge and thread a piece of nylon string through it tying a knot on the inside so it doesn't pull loose.
Do the same at the rear of the pipe and leave the threads long enough to tie to a fence post or similar having the entrance slightly tilted forwards to stop rain entering the entrance.
Next this is most expensive part but it will last you for a long long time.
Look at Mann lake bee supplies or a similar bee keeping supplier and purchase a packet or tub of bee pro pollen substitute or similar brand.
Put a couple of cups of the substitute into the tube a spread it so it covers the floor of the tube.
If you do this early spring you will be helping ferrel colonies and indeed if you take up beekeeping your own as well with much needed food.
If these instructions are hard to follow please look on you tube for either Jeff Horchoff and his pollen feeders that's where I got it from or any other diy pollen feeder.
You will in turn be helping your own Eco system greatly.
Bees are wonderful I wish I started 20 plus years ago, I'm early 50's and love beekeeping so so much.
Thank you if you read this and pass it on to a friend or family for them to help as well.
Beautifully created and inspiring.
We have a bed of newly (this spring) planted lavender and the bees are still feeding when it's warm enough, so we are waiting until they stop visiting before trimming it back. See video just uploaded on my youtube channel.
Awesome video thanks for sharing 😊
is their anything that would detract wasps but not the bees?
What were the name flowers you mentioned?
heather, pulmonaria or lung wort, hellebore, crocus, clover, and as many varieties as you can, flowering in different seasons all throughout the year.
ive got lavender but its the wrong sort they like the spikey lavender
As long as they swarm the lavender for a sip, I think pretty much all lavender variations will help!
My pollinator book mention only one lavender and it's the English one (lavandula angustifolia).
@@KishorTwist English lavender is the best for the bees
I found this video quite disappointing given that it was filmed by a Wildlife Trust with the intention of spreading the word about encouraging and protecting our bees. Whilst many of us readily can identify Digitalis, Hellebores, and Crocus, many of us cannot identify other flowers so easily. There was a long section of the film showing different flowers plants where the narrator did not speak, therefore not identifying those helpful plants for us. Sorry chaps, back to the drawing board.
I'm seeing geraniums, rosemary, mysotis/forget me nots, fox & cubs, cepholaria gigantia, bearded iris, white Valerian (plenty of info available on the web about bee plants - get a grip Ron!)
dang so i guess sunflower will do the work then i hope my flower survive
its all well and good that gardeners do their bit and refuse to buy grotesque and unnatural double flowers,
but unless farmers and large scale landowners change their ways...we humans are f*cked as a species.
we need all of our farmers to put back the hedges they ripped up, all the ponds they filled in and restore the
flower rich meadows they vandalised in the pursuit of efficiency or profit. i can forgive the wartime generation, who were incentivised to wreck the countryside, but farmers of the 21st century should be custodians and stewards of
the land and put right what was done out of ignorance by their predecessors.