#97 Help native bees
Some eastern suburbs vegetable gardens currently don't pollinate due to lack of bees. Support native bees and honey bees by planting bee friendly plants. Honeybees and natives love mint, rosemary, native gums, bottlebrush, melaleuca and local plants.
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Mint, hey? I just put our increasingly sickly-looking mint plant, which had occupied our windowsill above kitchen sink, in the backyard of our building, where other herbs have also gone to successfully convalesce.
I love 'our' native bees. It's so easy to miss them. I speak to folks and they don't even know that native bees exist!! I say, "Just stop for a while near some of your native plants and sit down. Wait patiently and keep still. Very soon you'll notice the small, beautiful Aussie bees going about their work."
Sometimes mistaken for flies or even mossies, they are in fact OUR bees! Well, not really our bees, but you know what I mean. :-)
Try making a bee hotel by gettimga block of Aussie timber and drilling small holes in it, about 10 cm deep. Native bees will take up residence in these holes which protect them from predators and the elements. Soon they'll be demanding Foxtel!! ;-)
The presence of these bee will engender pollination of your native plants and vegies. It will bring you a great deal of satisfaction.
The article on native bees is admirable, but isn't that a photo of a thistle flower? If it is, your author has published a photo of an introduced noxious weed - definitely not the type of plant that we want to encourage native bees...
Good point, Ross. :-)
Check it out, urban beekeeping in Paris http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/20/rooftops-abuzz-with-beeke_n_292...
Ive found some native bees to sleep in the morning more than honey bees = cute but vulnerable, they need as much help as possible.
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