THESE Plants Bring All the Bees To Your Yard - No More Hand Pollinating

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You ladies need to do a get together or meet up at the nursery Wilcox….That would be amazing ❤

It’s a blue salvia.

Those are aphids on your milkweed. Don't do anything about them. The milkweed can handle those aphids. The caterpillars go for walks often in the afternoon looking for their place to put the chrysalis. But with so little cover near them, they more than likely got picked off. Don't worry about that, as everything fills in, you'll get higher percentage of caterpillar survival.

Your new plant arrangement looks great. Planting native plant does indeed bring in the pollinators. Happy growing!

Orange butterfly is a gulf fritillary.

I love how excited you are with your new plants. Goes to show, gardening never gets boring, there is always something new to learn. I never really looked at pollinators much even though pentas and citrus have been growing in my gardens for years. Then I saw butterflies on brassicas that were bolting, and man, THAT was really exciting! Made me feel like I was a proper gardener! LOL

Metallic bees are either sweat bees or green orchid bees. The big black bees are Carpenter bees.

I can't wait for our next visit!!! I love what you did 🥰

Mexican Heather the bee’s love them 😊

Okay I’ve always wondered why you didn’t have more flowers. As a new Florida gardener what i have learned is that the flowers take twice as long to grow than the veggies. Plan ahead.

Love your garden,

Hi Patrina I really like your flower bed garden. We have the same gardening styles. Don't love the hot Florida heat and humidity, love to gardenin the evening during the summer. Hate to hand pollinate, not really a flower gardener but have realized I need them for pollinators. I love cemetery and like my garden to look nice. Just another Florida gardener in zone 9b. Thanks again for another great video, from Donna in Sarasota.

Since adding flowers, I've noticed that the wasps aren't interested in me. They fly around me all the time. I'm sure it's the flinging of arms and hands that cause the wasps to attack. Just stay calm and enjoy on!!

Man some monarch caterpillars will take those milkweed plants down the stalk in a day. Also, some natives that do really well are wild coffee and snow squarestem. You can often find patches of wild coffee on the side of the road and it tends to attract zebra longwings and I was talking to an entomologist with the University of Florida AG extension about always seeing butterflies on these white wildflowers (the snow squarestem) and he told me that the male butterflies are drawn to white flowers because they need the alkalinity to reproduce (or something along those lines). Great video! I was taking notes the whole time!

Because of Colony Collapse Disorder, there is a shortage of bees. Some people have tried to solve this challenge by becoming beekeepers. However, that is, usually, not a successful approach: it costs a lot of money and time; the colony dies during a frost; etc Besides, if their isn't much in the way of native plants in the environment, they'll die of starvation, anyway. I like your approach: add native plants and attract the available pollinators. By giving them what they need to live and reproduce, their population grows naturally. I'm the kind of person who tries to grow as much food as possible in my limited garden space. So, I tend to look askance at any plant that doesn't directly yield something edible--hence, I tend to stay away flowers and natives. However, it is clear to me now that flowers and natives can actually in my food yield.

Hello Petrina! I am very new to gardening, first year. I planted cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes & beans last fall with some success. I absolutely love your videos! I have learned so much from watching them. I am going to get me some native plants to attract the pollinators. I noticed in the background in this video where you have what I believe is your squash… can you tell me what you have them growing up. I don’t believe it is cattle panel correct? I would like to grow enough tomatoes this fall to hopefully be able to can them without having to buy them from the farmers market this time. I love your story of you & your husband being childhood friends. My husband & I are as well married right out of high school & 45 yrs later he is still the love of my life. Sorry off track… keep making your videos & I will continue to watch & learn☺️

Your garden and flowers look absolutely lovely!! 💚🌱

I haven't seen many bees this year

Wild Floridian convinced me to plant Florida natives. As I was watching this video and you were talking about Florida natives at the end I noticed that a strange giant butterfly was hovering above my firebush. Strange looking and flying all goofy for a butterfly I got up from my garden chair to get a better look and it was a humming bird.