World Bee Day
Today we are celebrating World Bee Day. Our busy little friends are a vital part of the world's ecosystems, pollinating food crops as well as wild and native plants. As the number of bees across the world rapidly declines, we thought we'd research how we can boost the local population and came up with a few tips.
- If you need to spray your garden, use bee-friendly weedkiller and use it early morning or at sunset when bees are less active.
- Take a break from weeding. Bees love lawn clovers and dandelions.
- Provide fresh, clean drinking water in your garden for the bees to drink.
- Support local hives or rent your own through Bees Up Top or BeezThingz.
- Grow flowers rich in pollen and nectar. Plant for multiple seasons so there is sustenance all year round.
- Support local flower growers. A lot of flowers for sale are imported from overseas and are dipped in glyphosate - a herbicide that is harmful to bees. 
"When it comes to choosing bee-friendly flowers think of your Grandma's old favourites. Old-fashion heirloom varieties of flowers like stock, carnations, chrysanthemums and sweet peas attract more bees thanks to their open-faced flowers full of pollen. Choose these over the new sterile commercial varieties of garden flowers. Grandma knows best!" - Alice from Fields Fortune Flowers
