It is so empowering see the incredible things that happen from small and simple changes! Also, a huge thank you to my favourite tea company Clipper Teas for their work on promoting pollinators: www.clipper-teas.com/ 😀🌻🐝

I have been living in Tennessee for 15 years and have not seen any bees in my yard. This year I planted sunflowers,zinnias,and cosmos in my garden and I am thrilled to see many bees this year.

I have transformed my garden this year, out with the lawn, in with a greenhouse, no-dig raised beds, ponds, compost bin, flowers everywhere - I discovered permaculture, which seems to be exactly what i've been doing. I've notice lots of different bee species, dragonflies, bushes full of ladybirds. The transformation happens very quickly, which encourages you to continue finding out more and to continually improve the garden. I should have done this years ago!

I let my basil bloom by accident this year and was about to rip it out when I noticed the huge amount of bees and bumblebees that enjoyed it. I left it to them and it still blooms months later and I always see insects gorging on it. Very easy to grow and maintain in a pot!

"The power of marginal gains..." Thank you for that phrase! It is new to me, but I'm already thinking of areas in my life (as well as my garden) where this can be applied. Very thought provoking!

Huw, this was the first year we incorporated flowers into our vegetable garden and we were greatly surprised by the increase of pollinators in our yard. We grew yarrow, zinnias, dahlias, black-eye Susan, and Gerber Daisys and we constantly had bees, lady bugs, butterflies, and humming birds in our yard. We will definitely be increasing our pollinator-friendly growing areas. As always, thanks for your work in educating us as we grow our gardens. Keep up the good work, Huw! (KY, USA)

Huw, let me start by saying that your channel belongs on a public access and a major cable network. Unless you are looking at KZfaq as the 'organic' avenue to the masses. (Southern American humor) Seriously however, your cadence, voice, diction, knowledge and overall love of your craft is felt immediately. As a chef, I have always cooked with 'love' because it is THE ingredient that people often overlook. Just as talking to plants make a difference, placing 'love' into a dish with the thought, joy, and caring of preparing foods, the final product will always be better than one made without love. My previous home had 9 large Hollys that were planted as seedlings and stand now at over 3.5m. Each year they would attract hundreds of thousands of bees. So much so that the apiarist next to me had to add more boxes because his colony started to grow. Thank you for your wisdom and personality. It is a great combination.

I’ve always planted flowers and vegetables in the same space. Not only do you attract pollinators but it looks so much nicer in my opinion. I also encourage natural plants like blackberries and rose hips and I have an enormous comfrey patch. I picked loads of rose hips to make syrup using a natural recipe from the woodland trust. I then picked blackberries for crumbles with apples I was given and for good measure I picked plums from our lane. I was wondering at the end why I bothered to grow so much, because Mother Nature gives you so much to forage without any effort at all.

Huw, I absolutely love you for speaking out for the importance of organic. The only messaging we hear is about the habitat loss (which is important!) but never about pesticides and herbicides like glyphosate. Good to see organisations like Pesticide Action Network UK raising awareness too.

This video made my little heart happy! Thank you Huw, I hope your message is heard loud and wide.

I avoided mowing in May, then mowed early June and not again until just this weekend. One problem with this is that mowing becomes quite difficult with a normal mower, so I've gone over to scything - a real eye opener - and very meditative too

My mum begun growing flowers in our vegetable garden, when I was a child. And I do it every year. I really like when everything is in bloom and in colours.

Wild pollinators are so much more effective as honeybees. Especially humbees can carry much more pollen and fly already with lower temperatures. Honeybees are not going to extinct, like milk cows won't. Often honeybees are competitors to wild bees. In Hamburg, after many wild gardening projects, wild bee population increased, till it became popular to have beehives in the city. After that the wild bee population decreased again. Buying honey won't help wild bees, like buying milk won't help the bison.

Thanks for shedding light on a few of the MAJOR issues of our time and showing how we can all take steps to implement change!

As a former commercial beekeeper, I have always ensured that my property has a plenty of pollinator plants. One of my favorite flowers is the Cleome (aka Bee Plant). It blooms all summer long, until frost kills it, and it freely reseeds itself year after year. Also, adjacent to my garden area is a butterfly garden with many different perennial pollinator plants which bloom in stages from early spring until the first fall frost.

I am with you, Huw! I am organic all the way on my little acre in Michigan. I embraced cottage gardening a few years back and my kitchen garden isn't just veggies anymore. It is planted with flowers, herbs, berries, and veggies. I also border the garden with flowers for the bees and butterflies and hummingbirds. I learn more every year, but this year my kitchen garden will include sweet peas, sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, thymes, and chives (they are a bee magnet when in flower) among others. I've found in the early spring, the bees also love visiting my hellebores and daffodils. When our flowering crab is in bloom, you can almost hear a symphony of bees humming. Sometimes, I sit beside a plant when they're hard at work and just watch them. They don't mind me there at all. I am so thankful that I can grow many plants to make us both happy.

Dear Hue, I am quite old bit when I moved onto my property 40 years ago I started using only organic fertilizers etc It wasn't really popular back then but it seed to me to be important. So I have held strong. Thru many bad years I've done nothing but am now back gardening organically and now with bees on my property I am more aware of protecting the pollinators. Also water for them here in South Carolina is important in the dry months. Thanks for the helpful video. Think I'll add borage next season. Our bee keeper said the bees flourished this year and I was so happy about that. Thanks for what you do. I do love the UK and wish I could come there again. Oh well. Keep it up! I'll be watching!

Oh Huw, your videos are a slice of peace in a confusing world. Thanks so much for all you do! My catnip is always covered with pollinators, and I let my parsley flower and they love that too.

I've never been entranced with flowers, but I appreciate them as a double duty plant like the beautiful Siam Queen basil blooming for me now. I counted an incredible number of bees and even some very exotic-looking pests this summer but now I'm tending to the handful of plants left after abandoning them due to local disaster. It was a huge disappointment for me, but I feel motivated to keep tending to what's left because there are a few little flowers and it's nice to know they can still make an impact. This video is a nice reminder of the benefits of flowers and it's even better with all the well-edited video cuts (because I'm tired of watching awkward garden KZfaqs of one person talking to the camera with no change of scene or angle. I want to see beautiful plants and gardens and pollinators just like this!)

I've adopted the no dig and interplanted vege's with edible and non edible flowers. My tiny garden, about 6 sq.m. of soil and containers looks like a jungle. It has produced so so many vegetables and the pollinators nip from one source to another. It has been stunning and I will definately mix everything up again. It's fun having the challenge of where to start things growing for light and height. I also pick dandelions and clover from my small lawn for salads and teas... Thanks Huw for your videos.

Also for butterflies and sometimes moths, it's important that you include plants where they can lay their eggs. These are called hostplants Letting some nettles, native milkweeds, grasses, legumes and other plants gives them a safe space where they can reproduce and their caterpillars can reach adulthood

Huw a few things worth mentioning - pollinators are not just bees but also many insects including hover flies and wasps. Also in encouraging pollinators it's also important to provide water and habitat for over wintering 🙂

Huw, you're doing great job educating your audience. Congratulations! I recently got a huge willow log, roughly 1 m diameter, with the sole purpose of ditching it in a corner of my garden as a wildlife shelter. My friend put some thick clay wall at one end of the hollow trunk as home for masonry bees. Works wonders! It doesn't have to anything that spectacular, though, just leaving one tiny piece of land alone for all the wildlife creatures to feel at home makes a huge difference.

I enjoy your videos, thank you for the inspiration. I'm working on sandy soil but I use raised beds, i have red wigglers (my little helpers producing food for my plants) and I work on composting food scraps, I have a paper shredder, reuse and recycle everything I can. Organic gardening as well as cooking at home with great products, mostly organic. You're right, small changes matter and help transform this beautiful blue planet. 🙏🏻

I had an idea to plant more flowers in my garden just because they are so beautiful. Now I know the practical benefits. I promise to use at least 5% of my vegetable beds for flowers this year!

I have tried to rewrite this 3 times now - without English being my first language I feel like I am missing the words. Organic isn't always enough, organic can be monoculture as well, organic also have rules on how much of this and that can be used to support it. In Denmark we have higher standards for Danish organic products than the EU does for EU organic products (and organic products from UK), in Germany they have the Demeter principal which is even more strict and in line with nature - also from a holistic perception. I believe the Demeter approach is what we should be trying to reach for all food production (I am not associated with Demeter or know all about it). Large food production is very hard to do if it should be close to nature which I believe is what you really want - but it isn't impossible. The main problem I see is that we allow products that are not up to the highest standards we are able to. Cost from the end consumer is of the highest importance - but this is where equality comes in play. I really hope this makes sense, as I am quite passionate about making a difference for the better of our society, health and food production. You are a great educator and I hope you will reach so many more than us commoners do. Thank you for the videos, very good information, great inspiration - and high quality!

I absoutely loved this video. I've planted marigolds, dill, coriander, nasturtiums, lavenders, etc, and have two large cream grevilleas (Ausie shrub) that the bees love. Thank you for eloquently exlpaining the need for pollinators.

Thank you, Huw, for this encouraging video to use organic practices in the garden and to eat more organic produce. I agree wholeheartedly. We thereby benefit ourselves, our family and friends, and of course the pollinators/wildlife. It’s a win for all.

I also like the phrase 'the power of marginal gains'. My contribution this year will be sowing the 'bee bombs' I was given (smaller version of the seed bombs demo'd here). Thanks for explaining that the butterflies love apples as I left some for our blackbirds and it explains why we saw a Red Admiral in our garden. Our local pollinators love our lavender and so thankful my first attempt at cuttings of lavender worked so well. Nice to see you using Clipper Teas as we used them for our wedding nearly 22 years ago because they were a fair trade product, and fairly traded products are a prime example of 'marginal gains'..church groups often used these products for years and eventually they became main stream in the supermarkets! Never underestimate the 'power of plodding'!!

Huw, thank you so much for this KZfaq. I really like how you broke it down to just doing ONE thing can make a difference. I buy lots of organic products but often feel guilty when I can't buy everything organic or when some months I have to buy less Organic than I normally do. Also, we moved to a new home last year so this year I was able to see the fall planting I did make a big difference with my pollinators. I loved it. So so so many bees and butterflies this year. Can't wait to see what next year brings.

When you talked about making seed bombs, I thought they were going to be for randomly throwing out a car window in rural areas that could use more wildflowers to help feed wild bees.

Thank you. I have avoided paying the higher prices that are on organic foods but this video has shown me why it is important and I will be switching to organic blueberries as a 1st step.

I love this! Every year I plaster my garden with annuals for the bees and that includes lots of borage, cosmos, nigella, poppy, nasturtiums, black eyed susan and cornflowers. Im particularly excited this year because I've been given over 50 budleia cuttings Im propagating for community seed library i run. Planting flowers for bees is one of my favourite things - so much so that I've gone and built a massive arbour which is soon to be covered in Manita climbing roses which will flower all season long... Okay so I might be an addict

Hi Huw I love your channel and have used your videos, Liz Zorab's, Charles Dowding, James Pregioni and some German ones to inform my gardening skills. I have learned heaps from all of you guys. I wanted to thank you for this incredible video and the many others you have posted over the years. This video I personally find really important. You most definitely have a point by making the small incremental changes we can definitely a change in the world. I have transformed my rather large front garden into a cottage garden with all sorts of perennial flowers (some wild, some not) and have thrown some annual seeds, beans, dill, thyme, lavender etc in between. It is September and my front garden still has the most activity I have ever seen anywhere. This is such a nice thing to see. Many of the bees are wild bees and I love that. My back garden I have started to grow vegetables in it from when I moved in. I used the cardboard method to not disturb the soil. Goodness me it is still such a shock to me at times how productive this has become. I love my gardening and after the busy work on the ward during the pandemic this has been my treasure that helps me to decompress and destress. I often just sit out for an hour after my nightshift and enjoy the quiet and the birds, bees etc. Lots of this would not have been possible for me without your advice and guidance in your videos. So thank you! You definitely have made a very stressed human being like me into a chilled dude. Thank you so much and continue your good work! Regards, Marc-Andre Paisley Scotland

This video is just so heartwarming. I try to follow the same principles in my home garden, but can always improve. Particularly love the seed bombs for early spring flowers, especially dropping them around the neighbourhood!

Thanks as always, Huw! Your content, delivery, and high quality photography distinguish you and keep me engaged. I’m a happy fan!

Thank you so much for all the info🤗 You've really made me think about what I can switch to organic. And adding more flowers to the garden is definitely a must!!

Thank you Huw for yet another great video 😊. I live in Sweden and at my allotment I've planted a lot of springflowering bulbs beneath my gooseberries and current bushes. I got my allotment in 2008, and I immediately made raised beds with perennial flowers at one end, and herbs at the other. Every year one of the beds is a flower bed filled to the brim with annuals. I also have a big flowerbed with perennial flowers as a border towards the grawel walkway. Each year the numbers of pollinators increase, it really makes me happy!

The insects absolutely adore celery left to flower and seed. The plant is beautiful, shimmers gently in the wind which attracts the insects. Try it, for the plant, insects and joy given to yourselves. xx

This is such a good thing to cover, pollinators. I have the constant struggle with how to boost them on my arid farm - where we have less flowers and attractors. Bees, solitary and our honey bees, need all the help they can get. Excellent stuff Huw, thank you.

Thank you for this video Huw!!! I have been paying more attention to flowers and pollinators in the last few weeks because they are so important in nature. Planting more flowers is a very good and easy way to improve wildlife even in the cities.

This year we accidentally created an experiment in our garden. We planted some cucumbers near the herb/flower garden, and others with the other vegetables. The ones near the flowers were covered in bees, and were constantly producing more and more fruit, while the one with the vegetables barely produced at all

Thank you, Huw, for such a thought provoking video. I’m particularly pleased to learn of ‘The power of marginal gains’ and look forward to implementing that. It also gave me a different perspective on making that higher priced organic option - I’ll be switching something next shop.

I could not be more aligned with your suggestions. Bravo!

I have several in ground plots 40x35. In the very corners I grow Cosmos, 1 eyed susans, babys breath etc. usually. Straight down the middle I grow a mixture of zinnia, marigold,cosmos and dwarf sunflower etc. In the veg rows, about every 5 or six plants depending, I usually plant a borage. It's a great summer mix for hot weather. As I only produce for my family and neighbors, I don't miss the space at all. In winter, as I can grow year round in my climate, I grow brassicas, carrots, alliums, potatoes etc. none of which require pollination till spring if you let them seed out.

Super good advice I’m so happy to hear someone talk about the real garden issues and the cycles that are so important to hungry bees that also need to eat, owesome stuff thank you so much for sharing your ideas and carding of your garden

I'm so very happy you did this video!! Nice to see you using your success for what's important. 🥰

You cover so many important topics in this video. Thank you so much!

Really cool video! 👏🏻

I love these tips! Thank you so much for sharing Huw! I would love to see more videos like this!! ❤️

Put a forgotten water mellon in a bowl or something and let it rot. Bee's and butterfly love it. We had one in the frige and went bad in just a couple of day's so we put it outside to clean the frige and put it on the compost pile in the evenig with the rest of the kichen waste. Well we left it due to a couple of pollinating insects giving it allot of attention and we were intrested if it was a fluke or not. But how gross it is after a week it still attacts even more insects that drink the water comming out of the mellon. The 3rd day we could not see the bowl or the mellon cause of the sheer ammount of insects getting a sugery drink on a hot day. Tho i have to admit i am waiting for the moment the insects to leave the mellon alone so i can finally dump it on the pile 😅 Its becoming pretty gross and starting to smell what attracts even more 😅.. But we will perservere for the insects !🤮 Its not plants or something but still, why not let them enjoy it when we can't. Its especially the moisture that comes out of it that they drink hence the bowl or something.

Fantastic video Huw Richards and yes we need to help the pollinators not just bee's. Organic Gardening certainly will help. Have a good weekend and keep safe and well.

I really appreciate your knowledge sharing and I especially enjoy your encouraging empowering message for all of us to make small changes. I buy as much organic products as possible and I’m converting my regular city garden to a mini permaculture food forest. This year, I planted borage, nasturtium more herbs and more sedum. Autumn joy sedum is a great one for zone 5, where we are in Ottawa, Canada as it blooms long into autumn for the pollinators. I have also converted my lawn to white clover which positively buzzes throughout the season. Bonus is the nitrogen fixing capability of this pretty cover crop.

Thank you so much. This year I’m getting rid of lawn and have been adding lots of fruit trees and flowers. I saw a beautiful Monarch butterfly on flowers. The first I had seen in years. I have snow drops under my trees

Thank you for the video. I do utilize so many ideas from your videos. I try my best without spraying BT or need oil but it’s necessary in my veg garden. The bees absolutely are loving the yas fah/broccoli flowers right now!

I just switched my cooking oil with organic coconut oil earlier this month 😊 Our flowers (and the garden) are still going strong as well. Warm September for us in Canada. Love the video Huw. Glad to see a colourful garden of yours packed with lives.

I live in Tampa, Florida. This year I added a solitary bee house to my garden. It is amazing how much work these bees do in the garden each year. I am looking forward to seeing the offspring hatch out next year. Also, I love the seed bomb recipe. My husband has agreed to let an area of our lawn go with out mowing and I planned to sow wildflower seeds. Now I’ll whip up some seed bombs for that area! I really enjoyed this video. Well done!

Thank you again for these inspirations! We also had Calendula everywhere in between and Nasturium between the climbing beans as you suggestet before. Cale, Rucola, Beet Roots and Bietola are already flowering for seeds! It is sooooo beautiful! Next year we defenately have more different flowers... As we already always choose organic! I totally love the idea of seed bombs and I gonna make a project for my Association of it, to spread pollinators food and pretty flowers everywhere...

A cut flower bed brings so much joy. Pollinator and bee heaven while adding beauty to our garden and our kitchen table. ❤ The more you pick them the more they keep flowing. No need to feel guilty cutting them to enjoy in our homes as long as we grow plenty for us to share. I love watching the busy bees feasting on the pollen to the point where some of them seem to take a nap on a flower, almost drunk with fulfillment.

Beautiful! Here in MO, oxe-eye daisies are invasive. Be sure to check your area for excellent perennial (or annual) pollinator options. Sometimes cultivars are less optimal for native pollinators so be sure to research first. I am working on a wildflower/pollinator border of the yard space this year. Happy gardening!

I've had an allotment for only 2 years and have made the conscious effort in attracting pollinators by interplanting the veg with flowers and herbs. The bees love Comfrey which I've dedicated the peremiter of the plot, it's lovely working away being so close to foraging bees hearing them buzzing about. Your video is a reminder on why we grow organic and the absolute pleasure it provides in working alongside nature and receiving the benefits of tasty healthy grown food

Fantastic the way you do things. I am busy redoing the garden. I think i found in your channel an excellent source of information how to go about. Thanks.

I’m so thankful to have found your channel a few days ago. Having just moved across the US onto a 20+ acre, beautiful farm-to-be in Washington state, I’m in the stage of planning what I’m going to do with the land. While I always intended to go entirely organic, working with the land and providing a refuge for wildlife, your input has given me much more confidence to create something sustainable without becoming overwhelmed by the scale of the task. You are wonderfully clear and uncomplicated in your explanations and solutions, and I must say I feel inspired more than ever now that I’ve divorced myself from the notion that each step must be perfect, must have an exact process to work. By the spring, I hope to have a garden in and a substantial variety of flowers planted to bring back the pollinators. It’s work, a lot of it, but I’m looking forward to it. Thank you for the great videos, you’ve helped make this whole process feel far less daunting.

I completely agree with you! My garden sometimes has a craziness to it because I intermix flowers and herbs with my veggies, but I sure get the pollinators. I live in a suburb in BC, Canada, so am happy to give those pollinators a place to be. I'm always amazed at all the different species. I learned that one mason bee can do the work equal to 100 honeybees. And yes to letting those brassicas go to flower!

I love how the "adds" you have in your video is for a good cause thank you for that

Absolutely loved this video and have shared widely. Thanks

Love your channel, always learn so much. Thank you, Huw!

planted an area of my lawn with wild flower seeds and it was amazing the amount of bees and hoverflys that came, also left an area with long grass which next year we are putting some yellow rattle in. Ive also dug a wildlife pond which has already attracted damsel flys.

Love to hear you promote anything organic which is how I mainly eat and always garden. Here in early spring in New Zealand/Aotearoa I have my self seeded borage and honeywort providing an early feast for pollinators along with my pink cuphea, a perenial small shrub which they adore. As you do, I let some brassicas go to flower for them, and nasturtiams are firmly established in all the corners of my garden. I love to experiment with plants and see which ones attract pollinators the most. I plant dahlias whose stamens are exposed for the bees in particular. We used to see masses of monarch butterflies here, all feeding off the swan plants, but these are sadly reduced by the paper wasps which eat the caterpillars.

Qué hermoso vídeo Huw!!!! muy inspirador , ya lo ví tres veces!!!en este momento estoy incorporando nativas en mi pequeño huerto-jardín, lo que incluye muchas flores!!!muchísimas gracias!!

Well done Huw. Terrific message

Excellent vid! I used to not grow many flowers, but now I sow out wildflowers in between my food plants. Also comfrey to use the leaves as mulch (the bumblebees are mad about the blossoms). Borage, rosemary, thyme and other herbs for food (and for the pollinators). I'll remember to let things go to seed next spring for them, that's something I wasn't aware of, and I do always leave some fruit on the bushes and trees. You're right, my garden is buzzing like a hive this year, full of life, and my harvest is incredible despite the not-so-ideal weather.

The garden is looking lovely Huw, I'm planting lots of perennial flowers with the veg this autumn (because I don't have other beds ready for them), so it'll be interesting to see how that works next year. Great video!

Great video Huw. I buy as many organic products as possible but I'm always looking for more. I did a lot of companion planting this year, with pollinator friendly plants, and also let a lot of things go to seed. The garden was so much more interesting and alive because of doing this. Next year I'm going to introduce even more flowering plants.

Thank u so much Huw for encouraging all the people to overthink their gardening techniques! There is still hope in there.

Wow really well written and produced video with a very positive message

Thank you Huw, we’re just working on getting flowers and vegetable beds on our first home and I have been worried about all the blooming weeds in our yard. After this video I see them as an asset!

Wow! I'm encouraged... I imagine that veggies with the companions of flowers , looks gorgeous! Thanks for nice explain... God bless you!

Nice video Huw. Thx. Here in Lancaster, PA clustered mountain mint was declared #1 pollinator attractor several years ago. It blooms for 6-8 weeks attracting a variety of bees and others. It makes a refreshing tea also. We replaced our sidewalk and put in a rain garden to include this mint and many others to attract pollinators.

We have gardened for years, but are still beginners - being slow to pick up on the mistakes we made or improvements we were not aware of - quite by accident we decided to plant a little box of yellow & hot orange dahlias and blue catmint and afuschia colored butterfly bush. And wowzers - the bees and butterflies have come in droves. We love it and decided to plant more of those next year. If I were to recommend one flower it would be that catmint which is a perrennial and does not disappoint. I had not even been familiar with it before this year. I am certain that the bees came FOR the flowers and then noticed our veggies- haha. It works for me. KEEP MAKING YOUR VIDEOS!

This was excellent. I learned a number of things.

Great video. I learned so much. Great tips.

Great video huw.. I planted loads of flowers for the bees.. and my sunflowers and marigolds as of this morning were swarmed with bees.. made me feel happy knowing they are getting food.

Hi Huw we didn't mow our lawn in may as it has lots of clover in it that the bees love, i also planted a wildflower patch for the polinators & i have a butterfly bush plus sunflowers for the bees which i love to watch as they get pollin all over them making them look very cute & in turn they have pollinated all my veggies and i have some lovely crops to eat. Best wishes Penny

You are sooo right!!! I only had one growing season under my belt which was veg and decided this summer to introduce a flower bed in the front garden ( which had always been shrubs and bushes). I grew sunflowers, chrysanthemums and calendula on mass and decided to harvest the calendula to make hand soap/oils and cream. As you can imagine I was out there daily collecting flower heads but a bit worried I was taking from the bees. I needn’t have worried……. The more I picked the more flowers came and I couldn’t keep up! All my neighbours stop and say how much they love the garden (but trust me, it’s a bit wild and unorganised), the bees and other wildlife love it too. I’ve never seen so many bees in one place, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed being among them. My plants although slowing are still full of colour and next year I plan to add more early and flowers as I’ve enjoyed it so much. It’s true what they say……… plant it and they will come 😁 🌻🐝

Very nice video! Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for the list of what to plant early. I have a lot of snowflakes in big pots. I will plant them out under my trees, which form a hedge. I will also diffinately let my dandelions flower this year 🌞

Thank you for sharing this message. Every bit really does help and I really appreciate what you're doing. Keep up the fantastic work!

Thank you for your support of pollinator planting. It brings such joy to gardening to have so many delightful, beautiful companions. If you want an easy pollinator favorite, let a bit it oregano go to flower. It flowers for a long period and is alive with wild bees. Lois, Minnesota, US.

I planted borage for the first time in the summer of 2020, and I was amazed at the number of bees visiting it, as well as the hummingbirds. Now, it will always grow in my garden.

Huw, you never cease to amaze me. I love watching your Videos. What a wonderful Challenge to start witching our everyday pantry items one at a time for an Organic & sustainable alternative. Challenge accepted. You are truly inspiring. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia ; )

Lovely to have you back Huw, Hope you had a great time off. Great video, thank you.

I have been on this path for some time now perhaps 35 years or so. I have tried to encourage as many as will embrace these ideas. I have made several videos to encourage small changes in everyday living that anyone can do. But I don't have the following that others such as yourself have so it's really encouraging forme to watch others that might have more influence doing what they can.

I did add a half wild flower garden inside of my vegetable garden and lufa also for the bees and insect.Also probably more flowers than 98 percent of the neighborhood so sure I am helping with the tiny wildlife. Yes you have a good point. September is my favorite month Thanks

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Last year I planted a bunch of marigolds to help with controlling pests for my tomatoes and the bees and hummingbirds loved it! So this year I am adding more flowers! It makes the garden so beautiful and it helps the pollinators too! It's a total win-win, why not?!

Brilliant videos! Thank you for all your garden knowledge. :)

I am planting coriander now, so it bolts in early spring! Was a wonderful surprise for me this past year! First flowers for the pollinators too! Currently letting some carrots/radish go to seed also. Love all the pollinators that have shown up thus yr! Ps: and I love the low-no/mow may....always up for reason to not mow....lol 🦋🐝🐛

Wow I needed this video.

Just had the same shock with my brokkoli on the Balcony. So many flowers, so many bees!