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Please Please Help Our Bees
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Get planting please
To save our bees.
Come on all you animal lovers, forget for a moment the dead horse, and turn your attention to living bees.
The future of Britain’s bees hangs in the balance. Over the last few decades, we’ve lost 97% of our wildflower meadows. Our bees' food supply is starting to run out. And if they’ve got less food, there’ll be fewer bees to pollinate our crops - which means we’ll have less food too.
And last month, the UK Government approved the use of a bee-killing pesticide, showing the health of our bees isn't a priority for them.
In order to protect our bees, there’s something I need your help with. Evidence shows that planting bee-friendly flowers in our gardens could be the key to saving our bees. So if thousands of us plant bee friendly flowers in our gardens, on our windowsills, or in a nearby green space, we can make sure our bees are able to thrive this spring.
I’ve planted plenty, please will you do so too. Thank you.
Get planting please
To save our bees.
Get planting please
To save our bees.
Get planting please
To save our bees.
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To save our bees.
Come on all you animal lovers, forget for a moment the dead horse, and turn your attention to living bees.
The future of Britain’s bees hangs in the balance. Over the last few decades, we’ve lost 97% of our wildflower meadows. Our bees' food supply is starting to run out. And if they’ve got less food, there’ll be fewer bees to pollinate our crops - which means we’ll have less food too.
And last month, the UK Government approved the use of a bee-killing pesticide, showing the health of our bees isn't a priority for them.
In order to protect our bees, there’s something I need your help with. Evidence shows that planting bee-friendly flowers in our gardens could be the key to saving our bees. So if thousands of us plant bee friendly flowers in our gardens, on our windowsills, or in a nearby green space, we can make sure our bees are able to thrive this spring.
I’ve planted plenty, please will you do so too. Thank you.
Get planting please
To save our bees.
Get planting please
To save our bees.
Get planting please
To save our bees.
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Not only get planting...stop clearing up. Chris Packham is doing a can you resist thing to get people to stop clearing up to early before hibernating wildlife has emerged. Then there is No Mow May to support wildflowers and the wildlife that needs them. Monty Don has been saying for years that everyone should leave corners of their gardens untouched ever. I can smugly say that I have been gardening like this for over 40 years.
I signed a petition to try and stop the government approving that pesticide and I know a lot of others who signed it too, let's hope it does some good. I am also going to plant out a lot of wildflower seeds this spring that will help bees and butterflies, plus I have a huge buddleia bush that attracts them.
As for the horse, dead it may be, but apparently it died of a heart attack - pushed to the limit maybe by that vile bloke who thought it was funny to pose laughing on its body. Sorry Canary, but that horse deserves to be remembered too, probably had a rotten life with that scumbag.
As for the horse, dead it may be, but apparently it died of a heart attack - pushed to the limit maybe by that vile bloke who thought it was funny to pose laughing on its body. Sorry Canary, but that horse deserves to be remembered too, probably had a rotten life with that scumbag.
Is there something in today's news about this? Only because my M-I-L has just rung me to suggest I buy a bee-bomb from amazon (although I already have masses of bee loving plants in my garden)
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burleyshirley...I signed the petiton too and it seems our voices have been heard.
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Sugar beet doesn't attract bees because it doesn't flower. Not sure what has the greatest overall impact on the environment - using that chemical under strict conditions or having to import more sugar grown from cane. I do agree everyone should be attracting bees to their gardens. Get rid of patios and decking
I started a thread about bees a while back. This is one of the best Bee Hotels you can buy, If you look on my thread you can see how and where to site it on gingejbee's answers.
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Here's my thread.
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Here's my thread.
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Agreed,canary. I signed a petition asking the government to reconsider the pesticides and wrote to my MP. I had an email back from him saying they had not agreed to use the pesticides, carte blanche, but any use is too much. I have a mock orange bush, amongst other things in my garden. Its full of bees in the summer, they love it.
If you've got a privet hedge, as millions of households have, one way to help bees is simply to make it a rule that you never cut it back until after it's flowered. I see privet hedges all over the place but it's actually quite unusual to see one in flower because people trim them back far too often. That's a great shame because bees really love privet.
Buenchico "If you've got a privet hedge, as millions of households have, one way to help bees is simply to make it a rule that you never cut it back until after it's flowered. I see privet hedges all over the place but it's actually quite unusual to see one in flower because people trim them back far too often. That's a great shame because bees really love privet."
it smells lovely too, one of the scents of my childhood. You don't even need a hedge, one bush will help.
it smells lovely too, one of the scents of my childhood. You don't even need a hedge, one bush will help.
