Question About Bees

Azaleas have a deep flower making nectar more available to long-tongued Bombas bees and less available to short-tongued Apis bees. There is also a toxin in the nectar that can impact Apis more than Bombas. Species pairing between flowers and pollinators is neat stuff.

And Bumblebees are native, honeybees are not.

bumble bees are the superior pollinator, it is what you want to see. I don't see why you would want honey bees around unless they were going into your hive and providing you honey.

if you plant them they will come.
go to native seed and get a few pounds of seed mix once you prepare your beds and in no time you’ll have a spectacular show

no weeds, no watering, no maintenance

I usually get the all perennial mix or the pollinator mix. I like a jumbled planting of all different types plus they’ll bloom at different times of year. I’ll usually get two or three years and then re-seed.

once you get a planting growing and blooming if you like one or two in particular then you can get more of those. In the first year or so the coreopsis and Indian blankets will dominate and then more different ones will start popping

this is going into the second spring, you can see what blooms first (all perennial mix)



do t be afraid to heavily seed at first planting

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Speaking of... whatever happened to that idiot that was actually looking for Chinese Privet to plant as a hedge around his property? Wouldn't take ANY advice to the contrary.