Unlike animals, plants can’t move around to find a mate, so they have to rely on pollination, mainly from insects. It’s how they reproduce. The question is, are your plants getting enough?
Our job as gardeners is to help our plants to achieve pollination, so that we can increase our chances of a bumper crop while also helping the survival of our insect friends. It’s a win-win situation. But the flowers that we like aren’t necessarily what insects are after. So how do we know the difference and how does pollination even work..?
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I started gardening for the pollinators I have over 39 different varieties most are wildflowers that I have sowed and I've seen lots of pollinators.
Really great information! Thanks!
Great video as always. Some really great slow close ups of pollinators at work, really stunning!
Thank you so much for your knowledge ❤ you’re so amazing for giving these insects shelter that other wise is being taken from them from us humans ❤ thank you for giving back
I live in an urban desert, but had some salvia, lupins, lavendar, nasturtium in window boxes and have had at least two bumble bees and five (count them!) honey bees appearing out of nowhere. I've also rescued two cabbage whites from my second floor, and they laid eggs on my very tiny kale plants and ate them all. No idea where any of these are coming from.
Borage and catnip are fan faves in my garden with bees
Grew a load of marigolds as apparently binder weed doesn’t like them. All ok until put the out and both batches that I have planted have been eaten by slugs and snails. Any ideas??
What are the pretty red blooms at 6:09?
Brilliant video Ben, how successful are you with your apricot tree grown outdoor in the UK?
Ben. Do you have any tips on dealing with the cucumber beetle?
great vídeo https://youtu.be/9MlQYZQ3O8Y
I'm all about planting pollinator flowers as well as trap flowers in my veg & herb garden. I apologize; I'm 80 yrs and losing my hearing and can't afford hearing aids. I couldn't make out the flower you mentioned after Cardoon. Could you plz print it here? Tks so much Ben. As always, I enjoy your channel Ben and learn so much from you for my extensive gardening :):):)
Love this one! I love the pollinators although some frighten me. Good explanation! Thank you!
Stung in the nether regions?!! Yikes! When I was very young, I stepped through a rotten stair tread on the outside of an abandoned house, right into a giant wasp nest. I got 12 stings on and around my right eyelid. It made me terrified of wasps for decades. Fortunately, I’ve learned over time not to fear them, but see them as pollinators.
Don't forget pollination by the always friendly mosquito
Thanks for this video! I’ve also planted cosmos among zucchini or my root crops as they grow taller but also don’t shade out my vegetables
clovers and sunflowers, the sunflowers are intermixed with stuff and the clovers are a buffer around the gardens and lead the pollinators into the area. I keep the ground cover around the garden thick as possible.
Also embrace endemic and naturalized "weeds" like wild lettuce and lamb's quarter as net positives for the bugs they attract, and both can be eaten or used as medicine.
I have too many bees in my garden, it's absolutely terrifying to be in there sometimes, the wasps are the worst about not wanting me to touch their sunflower branch.
Wild lettuce works spectacularly as a support for corn and even big sunflowers seem to be best off when they have a lettuce to lean on.
fukken brilliant! you're videos are such a joy to watch…
In the US, the best resource for local growing flower species is probably your (USDA) County Extension Service. Not just the staff, but also the Master Gardeners that they train up. You may find Master Gardener training or social groups if you ask.
I planted catnip in my front garden bed and it was covered in so many different species of fly, wasp and bee that I kept losing count. Sometimes I couldn't tell what type of insect it was! Lol
Love the flowers you have through out you're garden.
I fell asleep with my window open in the summer because of the hot weather, a wasp decided to make my bed his bed too. Needless to say rolling over whilst asleep and being rudely awoken by the most horrible sting I’ve ever had hasn’t made me a fan of wasps.