It has been very frustrating with the computer not letting us blog!
We in the RSPB are encouraging you to Give Nature a Home, and every home should provide meals. Our Wildlife Garden is a rather grand dining room for bees and other insects that feed on pollen and nectar. A visit to our garden can show just which plants the bees like.
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Lots of visitors have asked me what this plant is - it is liked by the bees,
and the hoverflies. It is Astrantia 'Hadspen Blood' a masterwort that is well behaved in the garden. In common with many plants favoured by bees, hoverflies and butterfies it has single flowers, and a bold patch of a single type is the best. If you want to encourage bees into your garden then look at other gardens and see what they are feeding on.
Peter