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<h1><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Bring
on the bees<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="mailto:">By MARTY ROSS</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2012-01-21 00:00:00<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The very
first flowers of the season give gardeners a big thrill, but they are huge news
for the bees, too. The buzz these days is about bees and their crucial
importance.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bees need
our help: They're critical pollinators – alongside butterflies and
hummingbirds – but they're misunderstood, says Stephen Buchmann, a bee
expert and coordinator of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign.
Butterflies don't require a public relations program, but bees do. Many people
are afraid of bee stings and think bees are aggressive, but Buchmann says when
bees visit a garden, they're really not interested in people. They come for the
buffet of bloom.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“They're
collecting food,” Buchmann says. “You can stick your nose right up
to a bee in a flower and it's not going to fly up in your face and sting
you.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A
good-looking and hardworking insectary garden, a garden designed to attract
bees and other pollinators, will increase your harvest of apples, okra,
blueberries and beans. Insectary gardens also play a vital role in preserving
the diversity of ecosystems in modern times. Native plants, which provide food
and nectar for many more insects than non-native plants do, are the foundation
of a pollinator-friendly garden.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Fortunately,
finding great native pollinator plants gets easier every year. Growers and
suppliers are always adding to their selections of native plants. The National
Wildlife Federation and other organizations, including the NAPPC, actively
promote the beauty and utility of native plants. Such organizations have
developed regional plant lists, garden plans and even new apps for smartphones
and tablets to help gardeners on the go find, choose and plant the best native
plants for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Most
gardeners are not ready to give up beloved non-native flowers like tulips and
daffodils, but once you start looking around your garden, you're likely to see
that the daisies, asters, sunflowers and other native blooms that bees and
butterflies love are already some of your own favorites, too. The exuberant and
colorful cottage-garden style, with lots of different kinds of trees, shrubs
and flowers, and with edible plants and herbs planted right in among them or
close by, is just as attractive to pollinators as it is to us.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pollinators
depend on combinations of plants that bloom from spring through summer and
fall, says Nadia Navarrete-Tindall, a native plants extension specialist at <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Jefferson City</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Mo.</st1:State></st1:place> She grows butterfly milkweed, mountain
mint, asters, goldenrod and dozens of other native plants in her own informal
garden, but these plants will all work in more formal landscapes, too. You
don't have to have a large garden to help pollinators, she says. A single
flowerpot or a window box will attract bees and butterflies and help restore a
little bit of the habitat that has been lost to development.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Just
a pot with two or three native plants is enough,” Navarrete-Tindall says,
“You'll be amazed how butterflies and little bees and other insects will
find your plants.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lots of
plants that butterflies frequent are also good plants for bees. Butterfly
milkweed (the Latin name is “Asclepias,” and there are about 100
native species in <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>) is essential
for monarch butterflies, which eat only the leaves of milkweed plants. These
plants also produce rich nectar attractive to bees, beetles and other
pollinators. “If you don't have a milkweed in your garden, plant
one,” Navarrete-Tindall suggests. “It's a good way to get
started.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Native
plants don't always get the attention they deserve, says Steve Castorani, owner
of American Beauties, a brand of native trees, shrubs and flowers sold at
garden shops across the country. There are lots of great natives that are not
well known and deserve much more attention, he says. Blueberries, which are
attractive and tough landscape plants, provide lots of pollen for bumblebees,
honeybees and other pollinator bees, he says. Castorani recommends mountain
mint for bee gardens, as well as summer- and fall-blooming ageratums and
Joe-pye weed, whose showy flowers are often covered with butterflies and bees.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Stop
imagining bees as dangerous and aggressive, Buchmann says, and think of them as
watchable wildlife. When you plant native plants, you “create some bee
pasture,” he says, and when you look at bees up close, “you'll see
they are beautiful, with greens and blues and fantastic behaviors you can
watch.” Showy flowers attract lots of bees, and that's as it should be:
they're here to help.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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