Gardening

Bee friendly gardens come in all sizes and shapes. Learn how to create an oasis for pollinators in your backyard or on your balcony. You can provide additional bee habitat that aids all pollinators in your region.

Field of perennial purple cone flowers planted for bees image.

Best Perennials for Bees

Large yellow sunflower with bee collecting food.

Why Sunflowers Matter to Bees

Pink and purple wildflowers for bees growing in a meadow.

Wildflowers for Bees: Why They Matter

Flower port of hummingbird feeder with honey bees drinking.

Keep Bees Away From Hummingbird Feeders

Purple salvia honey plant in bloom in bee garden.

Top Honey Plants

Honey bees foraging on purple flowers in garden image.

Honey Bee Garden

Worker honey bee foraging on white flower in garden habitat.

Honey Bee Habitat

Honey bee feeding on Fall flower aster image.

Fall Flowers for Bees

Collection of bee friendly plants in rain garden design.

Make a Rain Garden

Honey bee foraging on white blooms of a tree image.

Best Trees for Bees

Worker honey bee foraging on blue flowers from weeds image.

Weeds that Attract Bees

Honey bee foraging on flowers of a buckwheat plant image.

Buckwheat for Bees

Purple borage flower in bloom in bee garden image.

Borage for Bees

Flowers that bees like blooming in pots on patio.

Bee Friendly Plants for Pots & Containers

Honey bees collecting drinking water.

Water for Bees

Honey bee on drought tolerant purple coneflower image.

Drought Tolerant Pollinator Plants

Worker honey bees visiting lavender in bloom.

Bees Love Lavender

Container of sevin dust products used for insect killers.

Sevin Dust and Bees

Purple loosestrife an invasive plant attractive to bees growing in a meadow image.

Invasive Plants to Avoid in the Bee Garden

White Dutch clover providing nectar for honey bee forager.

Clover for Bees

Bed of colorful zinnia flowers for bees image.

Flowers For Honey Bees

Yellow dandelion flower with honey bee image.

Dandelions and Bees: A Good Match?

Honey bees working lavender a favorite flowering herb image.

Herbs for Bees

Purple crocus Winter bloom pollen for bees.

Winter Plants for Bees

Red blossoms of red maple tree important food for bees image.

Red Maple Trees Important to Bees

Blooming yellow jasmine toxic bee plant.

Plants Toxic to Bees

Mahonia bush in flower with honey bee image.

Bee Bushes & Shrubs

Gardener spraying weed killer near a bee garden image.

Bee Safe Weed Killer

Spraying to kill weeds with homemade vinegar weed killer.

Homemade Weed Killer

Red geraniums planted to repel bees in garden.

Plants that Repel Bees & Wasps

Orange bloom of goldenrod with foraging bees.

Is Goldenrod Good for Bees?

Red bee balm growing in garden.

Bee Balm Companion Plants

Luffa plant in flower in bee garden area.

Growing Luffa Flowers for Bees

Bees visiting lotus bloom in bee garden image.

Growing Lotus Tubers in the Bee Garden