I love seeing these guys busily buzzing around the flowers at work - we need to encourage them in our gardens. I caught this guy feeding off some yellow Grevillea plants at my work. They convert flower nectary into honey and raw honey is a stable that we have in our pantry, mostly because it's a natural anti-septic - it's great mixed in with warm water and some lemon juice.
Other things I like to do during the day is to have a parsley or mint drink. I cut a short sprig or leaf and add it to semi-boiled water, it's very refreshing. Other than that I have some daisies, a newly potted up rose plant and various native plants in my garden. What plants have you got in yours for the bees?
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...pollinators sure are important!
Lots to be thankful to the bees for, not least delicious honey.
All our plants are indoors, we have no garden. :( I do like mint tea so we grow mint in our kitchen window and just the other day, we picked up a parsley plant.
There is not much around for the bees at the moment, but they are still visiting the odd flower on the geraniums.
I am happy as long as there are critters buzzing around, as it shall be. :) You don´t have to love all of them, but they shall be around.
One of nature's gems captured so well ~ Xox
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