A gardener has shared her clever method for attracting more bees to her garden. Bees are important for any garden as they are pollinators. This means that they help plants to stay alive and thrive. A garden that has a high population of bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, will result in a more colourful and abundant array, creating a beautiful outdoor space with the help of nature.
When it comes to attracting bees to your garden, there are a number of methods available, such as planting more colourful flowers and introducing ‘bee hotels’. However, one method you may not have thought of involves putting one thing onto your lawn and “letting nature do the rest.” Gardener and Instagram creator Jenny Game shared how she attracts an abundance of bees to her garden, and it’s a trick that many Brits may have never thought of.
In order to attract more bees to her garden and boost the health of her flowers, she pours clover seeds all over her lawn. She mixes these seeds with regular grass seeds and simply spreads them around.
According to the UK’s Nature Friendly Farming Network, clovers are rich in nectar, and one of their benefits is that they bloom for longer, giving bees a consistent food source. “This is especially important during times when other flowers may be scarce, they explain.
Jenny listed several reasons for choosing clover as her method for attracting bees, calling it a handy, low-maintenance trick. She also explained how it creates a more “diverse eco-system” and is more “drought tolerant” than other plants. “I mixed some in with normal grass seed in a couple of patches and let nature do the rest,” she said in the caption of the post.
Her video shows the huge amounts of clover that sprang up in her garden and the bees that arrived as a result. Many Instagram users were impressed by the simple hack.
One person commented: “I love clover lawns so much. Practical, beneficial for pollinators, pretty to look at. What’s not to love?”
Another said: “Absolutely love it, it looks amazing, I’d love to do this to ours.” A third wrote: “We are introducing clover to our lawn. I think it’s so good that the tide is turning from manicured lawns to more natural lawns, as they were when I was growing up.”