Seeing my orchard and my garden flowering and covered with bees makes me happy year after year. I plant a variety of fruits, veggies, annual, biennial and perennial plants to attract bees and actually all kinds of beautiful birds and butterflies. But this blog post is about bees only, so lets focus on them, yes?
Colorful plants like those of my Mammoth sunflowers do the trick:
I notice that bees love the flowers of my lime and lemon trees, they suck the nectar out of them and pollinate them:
The bees also love the flowers of my palm trees and the bottle brush tree. This spring my palm trees were flowering and attracted hundreds of bees:
If I want a ton of bees then I let some carrots to go full blossom and this is what I got this week:
BEES ON MY CARROT BLOSSOMS
Dra Martha A Castro Noriega
Bee Nutrition Facts:
All Bees get all of their carbohydrates from floral nectar and their protein from floral pollen.
Bees rely on flowers to supply them with the food they need to survive. Some flowers (e.g. tomatoes) provide only pollen, the main source of protein for bees. Other flowers (e.g. clovers) provide both nectar and pollen, thus providing both protein and carbohydrates.
Attracting bees to your garden is wonderful, especially in the threat of extinction of the bees. Thank you 😊
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Yes, it’s wonderful, indeed. We all have to do our part. 😊💚
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Yes. That’s right. 😊👍
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Ah Yes Dear
Doc Birds,
Bees, So Many
Creatures
Flower the
World In my
Real Backyard
Garden of
Eden True
Helping
Breathing
Sunshine
Nature Now 🐝
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Nature, wonderful world! 😊💚
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Yes! With
Smiles
Dear Doc🐝🎶
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Very nice bee tips..! Carrots growing full blossom.. have not seen that..! Interesting! Thanks for sharing Martha 🙂
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You are welcome, Shanthy! 😊💚
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