Making your Garden a Pollinator Paradise!!!

Pollinators are essential for your garden, everyone knows that they pollinate your plants and make you yield more produce but in recent years pollinators like bees, butterflies, birds, bats ect., are disappearing at an astonishing rate.

By planting plants that pollinators love you can increase pollinator numbers in your garden, you can do it by taking a few steps. Plant a lot of flowering plants in your garden which has a lot of pollen and nectar, if you are constricted in terms of space plant plants that are edible as well as pollinator attracter, plants like basil, marigold, nasturtium, etc., will do the job, many medicinal and aromatic plants are attractive plants for pollinator and also medicinal. Have flowers in your garden all year round, so these pollinators have food for the whole year.

Never ever use pesticides and other chemicals, if bees could speak all the bees would literally be begging everyone to avoid pesticides, seriously this is a big issue, the Colony Collapse Disorder(CCD) is destroying bee populations around the world at an unusual rate. Looking at a bee drinking nectar and collecting pollen is more worth the crop itself.

Have a water feature, even if it a bowl of water in your garden its enough, you will be surprised to see how many wildlife you can spot in that bowl of water. I have seen many bees, wasp, birds and even ants and cockroaches drinking water from a bowl of water. You may not realis it but it's worth it especially during the summer months. Don't forget to have a slope in your water feature, so that your pollinators don't drown. 

A puddling station in your garden helps butterflies a lot, butterflies can't get all their nutrients from nectar, so they take up essential minerals from drinking the water from a puddle, I have even seen butterflies taking up nutrients from rotting fruits on the round.

You can also have a bee or insect hotel, where pollinators like solitary bees can hibernate and lay their eggs, even this helps them stay in your garden for a longer time.

So, help pollinators and save the world.:)