Popular pincushions
Jul 13, 2021
2 minutes
DELIBERATELY choose plants that attract insects into my garden and, over the years, I’ve got to know which flowers attract which pollinator. My early flying queen bumblebees prefer open flowers, because most have short tongues, so I provide them with winter-flowering clematis, hybrid hellebores and crocuses. Once the cowslips flower, I know I will find fast-flying, black, female hairy-footed flower bees all).
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