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calimary

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2. If you have ANY way or place to garden,

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Sat Jul 20, 2019, 02:47 PM

Jul 2019

even if it’s just a couple of potted plants on a small balcony, plant bee-friendly plants!!! We have echinacea and ornamental oregano in our front yard, along with azalea and rhododendron bushes. You can hear the bees buzzing, flitting from blossom to blossom, busily feeding and pollen-spreading all day! You can hear them! It’s SO cool!

Your local garden center can advise.

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Remember the bees and colony collapse syndrome? [View all] Takket Jul 2019 OP

crippling our ability to grow food... to own Obama............. Takket Jul 2019 #1

If you have ANY way or place to garden, calimary Jul 2019 #2

I took out the bushes in my front yard and planted a bee-friendly flower garden :) Luciferous Jul 2019 #3

It's not just bees. It's all insects. tecelote Jul 2019 #4

Because Agent Orange was like kissing your cousin flotsam Jul 2019 #5