West Coast Late Season Pollinator Plants
By: Travis Owen Autumn is here, the days are warm, the nights are cool, and bees and other pollinators are still active. For me…
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A Medley Of Fruit Plants For Bees – Medlar and Quince
By: Connie Krochmal Medlar and quince share some common traits. Members of the rose family, both are uncommon, old fashioned fruits that have largely…
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Bigger Picture
by- Jessica Louque Shades of Blue and More At the beginning of the year, I was super excited to plant a blue pollen garden….
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Milkweeds As Honey Plants
By Connie Krochmal Milkweeds are common wildflowers in most areas of the country. Around a hundred species are found worldwide with slightly over half…
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Tower of Jewels
From very small to very large, the Echiums are beloved by bees. By: Steve Andrews Many beekeepers will be familiar with the Borage (Borago…
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Not Beary Friendly By: Jessica Louque It’s a pretty well known fact that I don’t have a lot of fondness for wildlife. Sure, at…
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Pollinator Decline & Self-Medication
By: Rachael Bonoan Can we help pollinators help themselves? Pollinators Can Get Medicine from Their Food While there are plenty of activist groups raising…
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By: Jessica Louque Sage Advice We’ve chosen a lot of really cool plants to see what works for our bees this year. On some…
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Can Solar Sites Help Save The Bees?
By: Rob Davis Rapid growth of ground-mounted solar presents opportunity to establish hundreds of millions of native plants. Across Minnesota workers are preparing dozens…
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Huckleberries ~ Vaccinium
: Connie Krochmal Two groups of bee plants are known as huckleberries – Vaccinium spp. and Gaylussacia spp. The former, which are most common…
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Urban Plantings
Shawna Coronado As an organic gardener, I often explore the idea of planting flowering plants in my garden – both native plants and more…
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Bigger Picture
Jessica Louque Pollen Frenzy Each year, we seem to have a honey bee field study that has a pollen collection aspect. This is my…
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APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS
by Ross Conrad And We All Know What May Flowers Bring . . . Pilgrims? No – A Honey Flow. First let me…
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Seed and Oilseed Crops As Bee Plants
by Connie Krochmal A number of seed and oilseed crops happen to be good sources of forage for bees. This group includes safflower, sesame…
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Smartweeds And Knotweeds As Bee Plants
Members Of The Buckwheat Family Can Be Annual, Perennial Or Shrubby by Connie Krochmal The various smartweeds and knotweeds are found throughout the world….
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Persimmons For The Garden
by Connie Krochmal Persimmons are excellent additions to the bee garden. Very suitable for hedges and espalier, the handsome, ornamental, picturesque, small to medium…
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SAINFOIN SAGA: A new ride for this ancient legume.
by Skylar Christensen “We are getting near,” said Gandalf. “We are on the edge of his bee-pastures.” It started in early May. A…
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Bigger Picture: How to Plan your Garden
by Jessica Louque This past year, Bobby and I had a fairly prolific garden. It was so prolific, in fact, we wasted a lot…
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Some Outstanding Leguminous Bee Trees
by Connie Krochmal The leguminous trees are reliable choices for the bee garden. Among these are a number of large trees, some of which…
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Cornflowers, Star Thistle and Related Bee Plants
by Connie Krochmal The centaureas are reliable, long-blooming, sturdy, easy to grow plants. The group includes native, naturalized, and cultivated species. These are valuable…
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