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Create a garden for bees

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 15:53

Plant a variety of plants that flower throughout the year. Bees like flowers that are blue ,yellow ,violet and purple. Bees are attracted to fragrant flowers.
Avoid the use of pesticides.
Trees
Acacia karroo - Sweet Thorn
Berchemia zeheri – Red Ivory
Brachylaena discolour - Forest Silver Oak
Buddleja saligna - False Olive
Buddleja salvifolia - Sagewood
Calodendrum capensis - Cape Chestnut
Carissa macrocarpa - Big Num Num
Combretum erythrophyllum - River Bushwillow

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Bees interesting facts.

Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/26/2017 - 12:44
To produce 500g of honey bees have to fly 55,000 km and they fly at 24 km per hour. Bees only live for 6 weeks and during their lifetime they produce half a teaspoon of honey. Each bee visits up to 100 flowers on a foraging trip, and as they pollinate 170,000 plant species, they are considered the largest pollinators in the world. 80 % of fruit and vegetables need bees to produce honey. A third of the foods that we eat are dependent on pollination. Bees require fresh water in a garden, and they play an important role in the environmental health. .
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Create an indigenous wildlife friendly garden

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:13
To create a garden that will attract wildlife and birds one needs to choose a wide variety of trees and plants that fruit and flower throughout the year, so as to provide a constant supply of food and nectar. Then create these habitats within your garden. 1. Water is essential so provide a wetland with a pond or a birdbath. I often see dragonflies above our pond! 2. Sand bathing is enjoyed by birds and guineafowl so just leave a patch of soil unplanted. 3. The open area is a lawn or a meadow with wild grasses and low growing groundcovers.
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