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Lucky Shropshire Bees

Posted by Karen Thorne on 16/06/2009 14:55:48

If you're a regular reader it won't come as a suprise to you that I love wildlife. I'm in the local Sustainable Business Scheme and the "what we do for wildlife" section was by far the easiest to complete.

So I'm very pleased to say that this year our wildflower meadow is looking amazing ( mostly! ) with a mass of ox eye daisies. We also have mass of docks on one corner but these things take time to evolve! And actually the sparrows have been loving the seeds of the curled dock.

One areas we've been focussing on this year is helping out the bees. Rob's planted a small area specifically with bee plants, however we do pretty well in the rest of the garden too with clover and foxgloves and other bee friendly plants.

I took the dogs out earlier and was entranced by the hedgerows in the field which are at their very best at the moment. The field itself was covered in buttercups, clover,daisies, and, as a result, bees! In the hedgerows the wild roses & honeysuckle are in full bloom, along with masses of foxgloves, elder, cow parsley and red campion.

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Hi Karen,

Fabulous views you have. And really impressed with what you're doing with your wildflower meadow and garden planting. A real example to everybody. Your orange bottomed Bumblebee is a Bombus lapidarius (Red Tailed Bumblebee).

Bye, Damian

Website link: http://www.helpsavebees.co.uk
Posted by: on 18/06/2009 16:00:57

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