A seasonal spread for flying foragers

any of us plant flowers to provide food for bees and other pollinators, but the focus is usually very much on the warm months of spring and summer when buzzing insects abound in our gardens. We often ignore the autumn and winter, but these are important times for insects. Some, such as bumblebees, hoverflies and butterflies including peacock, small tortoiseshell, red admiral and brimstone, hibernate as adults. Like hedgehogs, they need to gorge on plentiful