There is a growing interest in promoting both honeybees and native bees in backyards throughout Georgia. One way that you can enhance both the number and diversity of bees in your backyard is to provide them with plants that provide these important pollinators with food.
Here is a list of ten plants favored by bees. They help provide food for bees from spring into fall. These special plants are blueberry, redbud, beebalm, blanket flower, black-eyed susan, milkweed, goldenrod, horsemint, blazing star (liatris) and fleabane.
All of these plants are growing in my yard. How many are growing in your yard?
If you want to promote bees in your neighborhood, encourage your neighbors to plant bee-friendly plants in their yards too. Studies have revealed that neighborhoods where gardeners plant such plants host more bees than neighborhoods where homeowners do not.
While all of these plants are rooted in my yard, unfortunately I am certain that most of these plants are not growing in my neighbors’ yards. With that in mind, I need to encourage them the feed the bees by plant bee food plants in their yards too. If they do, everyone in this neck of the woods will benefit.
