More attention over the last number of years has turned to supporting and encouraging native pollinators in one’s landscape.
There are quite a few solid tips to manage your land to encourage native and specialist pollinators, so we’re rounding out our series on pollinators—(at least for this year!)—to bring you this episode on 18 Ways to Support Native Pollinators in your garden.
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Love what you do I’m trying to do it as well on a tiny scale my property is 50 x 100 I have three little gardens and have noticed in the last few years less pollinators
Thank you for sharing, Summer! I’ve really enjoyed watching the flock videos and seeing the progress in your property. Hoping to purchase a home next year, but my partner and I made great use of our apartment balcony as a pollinator garden and by getting involved in the nursing home’s community garden next door. Thanks for inspiring us 🌱
Good on you for mentioning the challenge with honey bees.
Things are looking so wonderful. Love the drone footage… Bald-faced Hornets amazing pollinator's. They actually are pest control especially Yellow jackets. Make those wonderful nest. People want to freak out. But they are so common around here. The leaves are falling now. People are noticing nest 3 or 4 ft above the area they spent there whole summer. BF Hs do deserve respect. But certainly a lovely creature we can coexist with (o;
Thanks!
Thanks Ms. Summer. 🍁🦃💚🙃
I hate rosa multiflora…it can contract rose rosette virus and then the mites blow into your garden and infect your rose cultivars…😱😱😭😭😭😭
Thanks for sharing some sources! Plugs are great for covering a large area and I find that it doesn't take long for the plants to "catch up" to those that were larger when planted. I am planting in areas with lots of rocks and roots so smaller plants are much easier to put in. Hate both Japanese knotweed and multiflora roses: an ongoing battle.
When are you getting chickens???? Poultry minds want to know!!! Or ducks!!!!
What is a pollinator guild?
I am really enjoying learning about the plants and practices that support pollinators. Thank you for learning and sharing the most current best practices! A couple of times you’ve shown a wonderful close video of a bee just covered with pollen hovering over a yellow flower. If you show it again (which would be great since it’s a happy little clip), would you let us know what that flower is? I would love to plant that one!
Yes i plant lots of sunflowers in my yard and i to some beautiful pic of the bews in my sunflowers and i never saw so many bees
Almost have done a 180 on honey bees. Thanks for emphasizing native, specialist pollinators.
THANK YOU, thank you, thank you 🙏 for the plant/plug resource. I’ve been wishing for such a thing as I’m trying to change our large field to a meadow. Plants seem to get a better hold than seeds, in my experience.
RE: leaving pithy stems… from what I understand the tops have to be broken or cut for the bees to use them, so leaving seed heads intact might favor the birds over the bees, etc. Just a thought based on what I’ve heard.
I really dislike the capitalised words in titles…like shouting in print (presumably a way to increase views). Also bored of the nativist nonsense, we should surely aim to provide for all insects in our gardens, really don't care where they come from.
glad people are doing this at landscape scale. i do it in my small urban yard but it's hard to fight the various pollutions that are always just across the alley
I didnt get a good look at the native grass lawn. Can you post some photos of it's present state on flock's ig?
Sheep LOVE Japanese knot weed. You can manage sheep with moveable electric fence and focus them in chosen areas via rotational mob grazing. 12 – 24 hours in one spot several times a year will overtime reduce the knot weed significantly and reseed your water way bank with grass seed, when you feed hay. Goats LOVE multiflora rose, thistles, etc. Love all that I have learned here! Thank you!
19:20, my favorite part of the video. So many people mean well, but do not really understand the greater impact of having dense populations of European honeybees. Not only do they compete for the same floral resources, but their dense numbers can also mean spreading disease or parasites to native/specialist pollinators.
Great tips! I only have a balcony at the moment, but I try to apply a lot of these techniques to my container gardening. I feel this especially important in urban areas. So much of our urban landscapes are filled with sterile ornamentals or incompatible flowers. So making little islands of floral resources is so important in our urban areas.
Thank you for all you guys do!
I enjoyed the video and appreciated the information.
What is the purpose for mowing? What is the advantage?
Supporting this channel means supporting the earth. Thank from the bottom of my heart for this. You’ve collected a large amount of information on specialist pollinators: maybe in the future or if you ever get any downtime in winter, you could consider writing a pamphlet or small book on this important subject. You could sell it and use proceeds to go back into your property.
Thank you, Summer, for talking about the negative impact artificial light has on night pollinators. Light pollution is something we as individuals can positively impact by selecting outdoor light fixtures carefully. The International Dark Sky Association 's website is helpful in guiding homeowners to consider fixture styles, light color and lumens when purchasing outdoor lights for their property. Moths are pollinators too. That could be another video!
Nature keeps trying to correct what we do. The flowering fields which we explored as kids provided good smells, colors, animal encounters and tons of jumping insects and flying bees etc. Have you ever visited a bee keeper there? Won't your flowers change the taste of the honey? Yes, the honey bees should probably specialize on bushes and maybe fruit trees,provided for them. Meadow honey is delicious, however. The tiny almost unseen bees are cute but can they do the job of pollination? The butterflies are few. The State still wants things to look neat here and once empty lots, are construction sites. They sell insect houses made of bamboo etc. at the grocery stores. It seems like the insects love slender tubes of any kind/material. We had a balcony fence. Wasps, hornets, and unknown insects loved to visit in the Spring and later they were gone. Retirees have begun to plant insect friendly plants on quiet streets, as a kind of 'terrorist' attack to help the bees etc. The City can't be everywhere with their mowers. Planting flowers with big stalks right next to fences, prevents them from being mowed down by building caretakers. I see the subtle efforts of the neighborhood, working, without words, together, while the others just drive by. You have to move slower to see the show. 🌻🌼🐝🐞🦋🍁🍃🌳🌱🌿🦗🕷️🕸️🐌🦇🐾🐦🦆🦔🐿️🐿️Your meadows are beautiful!
Very informative. Thank you. We need to take care of our bees.
Great information!!
Great to talk about light pollution. Turn off outside fairy lights, security lights on all night, porch lights when you aren't using them.
Txs, for the info! My garden is tiny but I’m going to try this suggestions!
I love that you all were able to support the CSA like that.
Wow, great video Summer, super informative and you have touch all the points I have learn the last couple of years. Thank you for spreading the word. and thank you to Sanders too, great photography. Cheers
Thanks!
This is going to sound strange but, Honeybees do best when their hives are around a variety of different monocultures that bloom at different times. They still benefit from a diversity of flowers that together, bloom the whole year. But being around farm fields is ideal (for honey production at least). When it comes to a diverse meadow of assorted wildflowers, this is a healthier diet of pollen for the hive but they're not able to use the waggle dance to recruit all of their foragers on one particular crop. They recruit other foraging bees based on the amount and quality of the nectar. So given the choice between a monoculture and a diverse meadow, the monoculture when in bloom will get the full attention of the hive because the flowers are seemingly endless. In a backyard setting honeybees can still dominate plants such as Joe Pye Weed but it's only after enough flowers on the plant(s) have opened. Dividing, spreading out, or thinning the Joe Pye Weed plant(s) can help delude this effect as it will make the plant(s) less of a target.
Couldn't agree more that Izel Plants is an incredible source of high quality, volume plugs for homeowners.