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Just gotten around to watch this. Thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks Joel 😊
I love the HF bee footage joel. I have all five but need more to spread around the garden. Off to your shop.
Thanks again this is exactly the type of info/expertise I need to help me choose which plants for our garden👍 barrel pond up and running and we are hoping to plant what we can to help the wildlife. Love the channel
Your footage of the Hairy Footed Flower Bee was “David Attenborough Standard”! Amazing! Well done 👏🏻🐝❤️
Another great purple pollinator perrenial is comfrey, I don't know if you've mentioned it in your videos before but once it pops up in our garden, it is covered in bees, I think the same goes for all plants in the echium-borage family!
I am so thankful to have located your YouTube. I was looking for purple perennials for Sunny orders in Glendora CA near Pasadena
Fantastic video Joel! Pleased to say I’ve got all 5 growing here in my garden.
I am chuffed to say i have all those flowers. Not last year, but year before i had a big flock of gold finches feeding on my verbena seeds! I also saw the yesterday feeding on dandelion seeds! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ i have cats. So i plant my nepeta in hanging baskets! The bee was gorgeous!
Thanks to all your advice, in the last couple of years my little terrace is thriving with life, just noticed ladybugs and geckos are back again😊 and looking at them is so heart-warming.
Absolutely love your videos. Im just creating my garden with my little grandson and am following all your advice. Thank you so much for all your advice and inspiration x
Literally all my favourite plants! 🙂
I'm concerned, I have a garden that bears flowers all year round, 1st of May, I had daisies, cowslips and dandelions in my lawn, erysimum, fritillaria, clouds of Veronica, ajuga and myosotis, cherry and crab apple blossom as well as Clematis armandii blooming away and hardly had a bee to be seen. Normally next door's pussy willow will be alive with honey bees when it reveals its blossom but this year not one. I back onto farmland and am worried they've sprayed something. I have now seen a few butterflies.
Brilliant advice once again thanks Joel 🐸💚🐸
Great video, I’ve been out to buy some of these today.
Hi Joel My the video of the bee was amazing I am in ahhh of the work you do and how you present it
The weather here in Ireland is quiet cold yet hope it will improve very soon
Love all the plants you have chosen must go shopping Thank you so much
Joel, I have had in my front south-facing garden, for about 8 years, an Erysimum Bowles Mauve which seems to flower all year round! I really should replace it I know, but it seems to attract every year, a Hummingbird Hawkmoth! I don't see it much, it'll appear a few times about this time of year and feed on this plant then I won't see it until the next year. I fear if I replace the Erysimum with another one I won't see the hawkmoth again – it's a dilemma!
Great video thanks!
Feeling chuffed with myself as I have all of these, but sadly this year so few bees. The interesting thing I am not doing though is planting the same species in groups. Looks like they will be moved next spring.
Hi Joel. Good to see you. I've got a lot of Hebes in my garden which were already here when I moved in. I have to say that when in flower they're absolutely swarming with Bees.
Hairy footed flower bee is sooo cute, great footage!
Any chance you can time stamp your videos please?
Interesting Im definitely going to keep a look out for verbena and nepeta, purple is my favourite colour so they'll do nicely