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Hi, Unsure about choosing the right plants to get a garden that's brimming with bees? This year, if you look at the bulbs in the garden centres you'll see a cheerful bee logo on some packets. With the backing of gardening and wildlife organisations, the Bee Friendly logo - and some other similar...

We're looking to put a border stretching from the rear patio to the chicken pen at the top of the garden, along the fenceline boundary with our neighbours property. It's about 20 feet (6m) long or thereabouts. It faces due East, so gets sun in the morning, but by late morning it will be largely...

The blossom has burst into bloom in the gardens here at The Lodge and is attracting lots of busy bees, buzzing from flower to flower. You may not realise it, but bees do a lot more than just bumble around and produce honey – in fact, us humans owe these little creatures an awful lot. Bees have...

Wildlife friendly I plant my garden with bees/insects in mind. Last year I grew Cerinthe Blue Kiwi for the first time, it had a long flowering period and was covered in bees, I’m definitely growing it again this year. I’ve also got a few Enchiums growing in pots ready to plant...

Hi - you don't necessarily need a 'hive' to help bees - you can easily and cheaply provide suitable nest sites which will help many of our native species. You can get lots of information on these - how to make them and where to put them from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust here You'll...