All About Bees by Rebecca Hansen Bees are one of our agricultural industry’s most important resources and indeed one of our planet’s most important resources, and the survival of the human race is in the hands of the pollinators. The pollinator issue is a hot topic these days, but, there is more to pollinating a crop […]
Talking About Pollinators by Sandy Swegel You have finally come to understand how important pollinators are and why we need to protect them. One of the challenges we who value pollinators face is how to educate other people to care and get your neighbors and friends interested in pollinators too. Unfortunately, we’ll start to ramble […]
Why Do Bees Have a Favorite Color? by Sandy Swegel I visited one of my favorite suburban lawn alternative gardens yesterday. It’s a true pollinator’s heaven of nectar and pollen, right on a neighborhood street. Full of perennial gaillardia and rudbeckia, and reseeding annual larkspur, cleome and sunflower, the garden uses about the same amount […]
Learn More About These Important Pollinators by Cheryl Soldati Clark There are so many misconceptions out there about bats. Bats are not evil, blood-thirsty creatures that fly around at night trying to get caught in your hair. Bats are graceful and fascinating nocturnal creatures, which benefit humans by pollinating plants, dispersing seeds, and feeding on insect […]
All About the Monarch Butterfly by Sandy Swegel It’s Show and Tell time. It’s time to take the kids or some curious adults outside and prove your superior knowledge of the ways of nature and introduce them to butterfly eggs. It’s been a good milkweed year in the wild this year. Lots of spring rains […]
Celebrate Pollinators with Pollinator Week Seven years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of this week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now grown to be an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, […]
How To Attract More Pollinators by Sandy Swegel I’m always in search of how to do things more easily and efficiently in the garden. Once again today I was at the garden center eavesdropping and heard a typical customer question: ”What should I plant to get pollinators to my yard?” The answer the garden center […]
An Important Part of Pollination by Sandy Swegel We love pollinators at BBB Seed and we keep learning how many kinds of pollinators there are beside honeybees. There are all the native bees and the moths and the flies. Yesterday’s comely pollinator in my garden rounds was a giant bumblebee that was rather drunkenly going […]
About These Important Pollinators by Sandy Swegel When we think of pollinators, we think of bees and butterflies, but one of the larger groups of pollinators are moths. They go from flower to flower looking for nectar and their hairy faces and bodies pick up lots of pollen that get taken to the next flower. […]
A Stellar Wildflower Year by Sandy Swegel People often ask how long do seeds last, but they usually are referring to seeds in packets. The question I’m astonished by this year is “How long do seeds last in the soil?” Colorado is a pretty dry place and there aren’t that many plants that reseed prolifically […]