The Bees Need our Help Now

The Bees Need our Help Now.

How can you help save the bees?

Provide Food, Water & Shelter with a Bee Garden

Top Tips for Bee Gardens:

• Plant Native Plants
• Choose several colors of flower
• Plant Flowers in clumps
• Include flowers of different shapes
• have a diversity of plants flowering all season

Our Top 10 Native Plants for Bees

• Aster
• California Poppy
• Elder
• Currant
• Fireweed
• Goldenrod
• Lupin
• Mint
• Oregon Grape
• Yarrow

Bee Friendly Garden Plants

• Basil
• Borage
• Lavender
• Globe Thistle
• Hyssop
• Marjoram
• Rosemary
• Mexican Sunflower
• Sunflower

Information provided by the Xerces Society:

Link to pdf:

http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/pnw_plants_bees_xerces_society_factsheet1.pdf

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