Bees are back

[ffutures]

In other news, following all the "where have all the bees gone?" stuff in Doctor Who I'm delighted to say that my front garden had loads of them buzzing around today, including some very fat-looking bumble bees. Unfortunately it got dark before I remembered I wanted to take pictures.

I'm reliably informed that London now has thriving bee hives which make extremely tasty honey (because there are so many different plant species around). In the country, where there can be miles of single-crop agriculture, it's apparently not nearly so tasty.

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[houses7177.livejournal.com]

I leave my lawn as weeds, or as I like to call them no-water, chemical free, volunteer native grasses, because the bees love the flowers. We need more bees.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

no-water, chemical free, volunteer native grasses

Works for me. My approach to gardening is to live in the top flat and let the occupants of the bottom flat do all the work...

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I saw about three in the last few days which pleased me alot.