#bee friendly gardens

[ozarathustra]

Landscape Fountain Inspiration for a sizable, modern, stone landscaping backyard.

[latiaranthrod]

Pathway in San Francisco

Inspiration for a small, transitional, concrete-paved garden path in the side yard that receives full sun in the winter.

[jaero]

Photo of a huge contemporary full sun hillside stone landscaping in summer.

Summertime image of a sizable contemporary stone hillside landscaping.

[recyclark]

Fire Pit Landscape San Francisco A summertime photo of a small, stone-paved, drought-tolerant, full-sun backyard with a fire pit.

[matriarchalmuffin]

Front Yard in San Francisco Photo of a small transitional drought-tolerant and full sun front yard stone garden path in winter.

[siegetheartist]

Landscape Retaining Walls Summertime image of a sizable contemporary stone hillside landscaping.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 2 July 2024

The walled garden at Gordon Castle, Scotland, has used Allium fistulosum (Welsh onion, bunching onion, long green onion, Japanese bunching onion, onion-leek, stone leek) as an edging plant. The leaves of this decorative 'cut and come again' onion can be used in a similar way to chives (although their flavour is stronger) while the flower shoots (which are not as pungent as onions) can be added to salads.

Jill Raggett

[natureisthegreatestartist]

[moer-koffie]

2023.11.17 Pretoria

[milkweedman]

bugs are so cool because most wild animals arent really chill with a human staring at them close up and moving around/doing things, but a lot of bugs will just watch you back. or wiggle around. we love to see it

[gardening-guy]

while i was at sneed's nursery, i bought this lil bee house, bc if i'm anything, it's committed to my plants, my hobbies, and the lil bugs outside in the garden! 🥰🌻🌷🪴🌱💐🌿

this bee house is by nature's way birds and if you want a bee house of your own, definitely find this brand! very eco-friendly and they have an app to sustainably track the pollinator populations & will identify bugs for you!! 🐝🦋🐛🐞🦗🪲🦟🐜

‼️REMINDER: don't buy the shitty knock-off version from target! there's probably other awful knock-off brands out there too, but i'm only educated rn on the target ones! the target ones aren't properly made and well-researched, part of the issue are the materials & the holes/crevices being wayyy too big! 🫠

[hoppinkiss]

went over everything in the bathroom Outside the shower with disinfecting wipes, cleaned the mirror, took care of the worst parts of the floor with the intention of properly cleaning the Whole floor another day, and I was gonna clean the shower immediately before cleaning Myself but I ran out of energy so I just took a regular shower

[thethorneinyourside]

Always love my little bumblebee friends 🐝🩷

[inthecityofgoodabode]

April 2024: The First Week

Someone in the neighborhood was giving away "fill dirt" so we have two garbage cans full of free dirt:

Breakfast burrito - bacon, scrambled eggs, lettuce with homegrown cilantro & chives. The pale purple bits are the diced chive blossoms. You could seriously be a "gourmet" if you started to listen to what your grandmother & grandmothers around the world were desperately trying to teach you:

Lini 910 Lambrusca. This is an amazing food friendly sparkling red wine:

Volunteer cucurbit. We've got at least six of these coming up & we won't know what they are until they form their secondary leaves:

[fionagardens]

Even at the start of November in the UK, here is a bee harvesting pollen from a Centaurea flower. I am quietly proud of my contribution to the bees through my garden. Bees are both globally and in the UK under threat. If you want to help too, my advice, just grow some flowers. Don’t worry too much which. Just flowers.

[the-busy-ghost]

We may not have the most exciting or blooming garden in the world but we do have:

Ladybirds living on the holly (eating aphids)

Blackbirds regularly hopping about, eating the few slugs that ever actually appear, and picking up leaves from the lawn for their nests

Finches, sparrows, and tits (haha) chattering to each other in crowds on the one small tree

Many different kinds of visiting bee and wasp

And this is relatively normal for a Scottish garden so it's not just us and even if we could do better by our wildlife, it still makes me happy to know they're there