Fred's Fine Fowl
05-01-2009, 11:04 AM
If you are interested in planting for bees and benefiting from other pollinators, here is the article you should read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/garden/30GARDEN.html?_r=1
Just another call for Patti's model of Urban Sustainable Living and being rid of that manicured, weed free lawn so many pollute (oops, strive) for...
The non-native honey bee is not the only pollinator, but all pollinators are in decline. Why? Look at suburban lawns... I ask you, what's wrong with weeds?
If I look at a lawn and it's a mono-culture, void of weeds... then be certain, it's been inundated with chemical treatments.
This article also looks at non-native plantings and how bees refrain from pollinating them, preferring to dine on native species.
Fred
www.FredsFineFowl.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/HTCSWEOD
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/garden/30GARDEN.html?_r=1
Just another call for Patti's model of Urban Sustainable Living and being rid of that manicured, weed free lawn so many pollute (oops, strive) for...
The non-native honey bee is not the only pollinator, but all pollinators are in decline. Why? Look at suburban lawns... I ask you, what's wrong with weeds?
If I look at a lawn and it's a mono-culture, void of weeds... then be certain, it's been inundated with chemical treatments.
This article also looks at non-native plantings and how bees refrain from pollinating them, preferring to dine on native species.
Fred
www.FredsFineFowl.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/HTCSWEOD