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Planting for Bees

Planting for Bees . Patti Koranda ISU Beekeeping Club. Bee + Flower = Honey. Bee Friendly Gardens. Planting guideline Bee Friendly Water sources Plant suggestion. Planting Guidelines. Sunny location preferred Protected from the wind Several types of flowers

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Planting for Bees

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  1. Planting for Bees Patti Koranda ISU Beekeeping Club

  2. Bee + Flower = Honey

  3. Bee Friendly Gardens • Planting guideline • Bee Friendly • Water sources • Plant suggestion

  4. Planting Guidelines • Sunny location preferred • Protected from the wind • Several types of flowers • Blooming continuously early spring to late fall • Native bees adapted best to native plants • Guideline are good for other insects, butterflies and birds too • Urban area may be better that country area

  5. Plant suggestions-learn about your natives • Native plants are 4 times more attractive than exotic flowers • Herbs, annual, perennials, heirloom can provide good foraging • Flowers and bees help each other • Allow plants to flower • Dead heading plants may increase blooms • Avoid hybrids with double blooms-less nectar or pollen • Plants may be host to caterpillars • Could be called ‘weeds’ • Avoid invasive plants • Some may be trees or shrubs

  6. Seasonal • Plan to have something is bloom all season long – early spring, summer until late fall • Plant at least 3 different types of flowers per season • Bees and Butterflies fly at different time • They appreciate a garden with varieties of flowers and long season of blooms • Perennials may have a delay in a new garden before they start blooming • Annuals help to fill in bloom times before perennials become established

  7. Plant different types of flowers • Plant a wide variety of flowers • Plant in clumps rather than single plant • The family of bees range in size • Minute sweat bees to robust carpenter bees • The have different tongue lengths • Some flowers are flat, daisy like flowers • Some flowers are tubular blossoms • They are attracted to bright colors, blue, white, purple • They see in ultraviolet colors

  8. What Bees See • We see in Red, Blue, Yellow • Bees see UV, Blue, Green (think color blind) • Bees do not see Red

  9. Image of UV Flowers

  10. Pollination Facts • 75% of plants are pollinated by animals • 1/3 of out food depends on pollinator/plant interaction • Many plants cannot reproduce without the help of pollinators • Landing Platforms helpful

  11. Nectar • Nectar is a sweet liquid made in special glands called nectaries that are found on flowering plants • Nectaries are most often found by the base of a flower’s petals • Nectar is the reward given to insects and small animals • Nectar is the base ingredient of honey

  12. Anatomy of a Flower

  13. Invasive Plantshttp://www.invasive.org/species/list.cfm?id=152 • Invasive plants are ones that out compete native plants to the native detriment • Thistle – bull, Canada, milk • Garlic mustard • Queen Anne lace • Chicory • Oxeye Daisy • Purple Loosestrife • Yellow sweet clover • Multiflora rose • Purple crown vetch • Japanese barberry • Honeysuckle-Trumpet, Japanese • Oriental bittersweet

  14. Bee Friendly • A well run ecological garden attracts birds and beneficial insects that help control pests • Avoid insecticides, they are non selective • Fungicides are also dangerous • BT-bacillus thuringiensis • Neonicotinoids • An insecticidal coating on seeds to prevent insect damage • Strongly suspected of being systemic (it stays inside the plant cells, in the blooms)

  15. Water Source • Bees need water • Hydration-digestion, metabolism, brood, queen • Temperature and humidity regulation • Bees can drown • Floating Landing platform needed • Stick, log, piece of wood, water plants, cork • Ponds • Streams • Puddles • Dew • Garden Water Features (fountains) • Can add hive water bottle • Pools are not good

  16. Spring Plants • Spring difficult time for native bees • Urban areas typically has few early blooming annuals • Some flourish is areas that become shady as trees leaf out * • Weather inconsistent

  17. Native Early Spring Bloomers • Native Perennials • Columbine* • Crocus-Prairie • Violets • Bluebells * • Virginia waterleaf * • Wild geranium * • Wild Indigo • Weeds • Dandelions

  18. Native Early Spring Bloomers cont. • Trees and shrubs • Fruit trees-apple peach, cherry, crabapple • Dogwood – trees and shrubs • Chokecherry • Lilac • Red Bud • Raspberry • Rose • Serviceberry • Strawberry • Viburnum • Willow • Wild Plum • Black locust • Many of these are good for birds too

  19. Native Summer Bloomers • Native Perennials • Beebalm • Black-eyed Susan • Blazing Star • Clover • Compass plant • Cup Plant • Mint • Phlox • Purple Cone flower • Spiderwort • Coreopsis (tickseed) • Yarrow • Native ‘Weeds’ • Butterfly Weed • Milkweed

  20. Additional Summer Bloomers(non native) • Squash plants • Pumpkins • Pepper • Beans • Tomatoes • Eggplant • Potatoes • Basil • Cosmos • Lavender • Rosemary • Marigolds • Zinnia

  21. Native Late Summer-Fall Bloomers • Native Perennials • Aster • Goldenrod • Sunflowers • ‘Weeds’ • Joe-pye weed • Ironweed

  22. Credits Helpful sites • Ecological Gardening.net • Kelly Allsup • Horticulture Extension Educator, U of I extension • http://web.extension.illinois.edu • http://beespotter.mste.illinois.edu • http://urbanext.illinois.edu/wildflowers/directory.cfm

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