No mow May begins on Monday, but you can start today.
The Waterford council has blitzkrieged every verge and other green areas in the last few weeks around the city suburbs. They might have a policy of tidy it then leave it for next month. I’ll bee keeping an eye on this and giving them a piece of my mind if they start their infernal machines again before June.
Are we all supposed to be underwater by then?
Is there a tax we can add to fix this? We can call it the Green Bee tax or something. Adding green in there always sounds good.
Shite buzz
I just seed bombed a half acre with native wildflowers. It’s not much but it feels good to help the little guys.
I’m in meath and everyone from the council to private gardens seems to be cutting trees down, taking hedges away and decimating any growth around lately. It’s worrying
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I saw three bees today.
One big fat bumbler and two normal bees.
There weren’t a lot of flowers around. A lot of green, but not flowers for them to feed off.
Who cares? What matters is that the economy keeps growing so we can show the world how savvy we are.
By then we’ll have so much money, we’ll buy bees from somewhere else.
We need to start thinking bee. Thinking bee thinking bee
We seed bombed the back yard and we were given a bee hotel at Christmas and then we made a few insect hotels out of timber and stacked them around the garden. Hopefully they’ll like them.
Wasn’t there a black mirror episode on this exact thing?
This is a whatsapp text that I received about 3 weeks ago, well worth forwarding as is (italic and bold formatting are the underlines and asterisks) to any and all.
Could be worth forwarding with the OPs article if anyone wants to.
_“If we had a euro for every packet of unregulated wildflower seed bought to feed the bees, and put the money into protecting our native wildflowers in Irish meadows, we could secure a future for Irish bees and wildflowers.”_
It’s that time of year again, where we politely ask all of you that are buying wildflower seeds with the best of intentions, to please make sure that the seeds you are buying are native Irish wildflower seeds.
If it doesn’t say “NATIVE IRISH” on the packaging, or in the description, please avoid buying them if you can.
The difference between native wildflowers and non-native can mean life or death to our native pollinating insects. An English or French wildflower can take up to two weeks later to bloom than Irish wildflowers, which can be too late for many of the wildlife that relies on them.
_“The interest in planting native flowers, shrubs and trees among gardeners, tidy town groups and managers of public parks has bloomed in the last few years. It’s partly due to the All Ireland Pollinators Plan 2015-2020, a bottom-up initiative to halt the decline in bee species in Ireland.”_
_“The plan – started by National Biodiversity Data Centre ecologist, Una Fitzpatrick and Trinity College Dublin botany lecturer, Jane Strout has helped change people’s understanding of the connections between insects, native plants and food crops.”_
_“More native flowers in our landscape mean more pollinators and other insects. More flowers mean more fruits and seeds and therefore more birds and mammals,” says Fitzpatrick who has been heartened by the public’s support for the plan.”_
Has anyone checked on Jamie Dornan? Is he safe? Is he okay?
I’ve got garlic over growing out the back garden. I haven’t cut it yet this year and the wife went out to get the washing in she said she could just hear a buzz coming from the flowers. I seen at least 8 today and the rest were buzzing inside the overgrow.
Not saying that bee population decline isn’t an issue but that sounds extremely dramatic and unlikely
Walked past a hedge that had a load of bees, one flew under the sole of my shoe as I was walking and I stepped on him before I could react, I’m honestly ashamed of myself
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> Jun 28 2018
No mow May begins on Monday, but you can start today.
The Waterford council has blitzkrieged every verge and other green areas in the last few weeks around the city suburbs. They might have a policy of tidy it then leave it for next month. I’ll bee keeping an eye on this and giving them a piece of my mind if they start their infernal machines again before June.
Are we all supposed to be underwater by then?
Is there a tax we can add to fix this? We can call it the Green Bee tax or something. Adding green in there always sounds good.
Shite buzz
I just seed bombed a half acre with native wildflowers. It’s not much but it feels good to help the little guys.
I’m in meath and everyone from the council to private gardens seems to be cutting trees down, taking hedges away and decimating any growth around lately. It’s worrying
[deleted]
I saw three bees today.
One big fat bumbler and two normal bees.
There weren’t a lot of flowers around. A lot of green, but not flowers for them to feed off.
Who cares? What matters is that the economy keeps growing so we can show the world how savvy we are.
By then we’ll have so much money, we’ll buy bees from somewhere else.
We need to start thinking bee. Thinking bee thinking bee
We seed bombed the back yard and we were given a bee hotel at Christmas and then we made a few insect hotels out of timber and stacked them around the garden. Hopefully they’ll like them.
Wasn’t there a black mirror episode on this exact thing?
This is a whatsapp text that I received about 3 weeks ago, well worth forwarding as is (italic and bold formatting are the underlines and asterisks) to any and all.
Could be worth forwarding with the OPs article if anyone wants to.
*POLLINATING IRELAND FRIENDLY REMINDER, PLEASE SHARE.*
​
_“If we had a euro for every packet of unregulated wildflower seed bought to feed the bees, and put the money into protecting our native wildflowers in Irish meadows, we could secure a future for Irish bees and wildflowers.”_
It’s that time of year again, where we politely ask all of you that are buying wildflower seeds with the best of intentions, to please make sure that the seeds you are buying are native Irish wildflower seeds.
If it doesn’t say “NATIVE IRISH” on the packaging, or in the description, please avoid buying them if you can.
The difference between native wildflowers and non-native can mean life or death to our native pollinating insects. An English or French wildflower can take up to two weeks later to bloom than Irish wildflowers, which can be too late for many of the wildlife that relies on them.
_“The interest in planting native flowers, shrubs and trees among gardeners, tidy town groups and managers of public parks has bloomed in the last few years. It’s partly due to the All Ireland Pollinators Plan 2015-2020, a bottom-up initiative to halt the decline in bee species in Ireland.”_
_“The plan – started by National Biodiversity Data Centre ecologist, Una Fitzpatrick and Trinity College Dublin botany lecturer, Jane Strout has helped change people’s understanding of the connections between insects, native plants and food crops.”_
_“More native flowers in our landscape mean more pollinators and other insects. More flowers mean more fruits and seeds and therefore more birds and mammals,” says Fitzpatrick who has been heartened by the public’s support for the plan.”_
Read more in this article:
[https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/ireland/environment-benefits-from-blooming-interest-in-native-flowers-1.3783043](https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/ireland/environment-benefits-from-blooming-interest-in-native-flowers-1.3783043)
More helpful articles from the website and some highlights:
[https://pollinators.ie/wildflowers-to-plant-or-not-to-plant/](https://pollinators.ie/wildflowers-to-plant-or-not-to-plant/)
[https://pollinators.ie/why-i-dont-plant-wildflower-seed/](https://pollinators.ie/why-i-dont-plant-wildflower-seed/)
Some links that you can purchase Native Irish Wildflowers from.
There are more added within when they are known.
[http://wildflowers.ie/](http://wildflowers.ie/)
[https://connectingtonature.ie/collections/nativewildflowerseed](https://connectingtonature.ie/collections/nativewildflowerseed)
[https://www.irishwildflowers.ie/links.html](https://www.irishwildflowers.ie/links.html)
[https://www.growitbio.com/product-page/irish-native-wildflowers-bees-pollinator-mix](https://www.growitbio.com/product-page/irish-native-wildflowers-bees-pollinator-mix)
[https://hannasbees.ie/product/native-irish-wildflower-seeds/](https://hannasbees.ie/product/native-irish-wildflower-seeds/)
Has anyone checked on Jamie Dornan? Is he safe? Is he okay?
I’ve got garlic over growing out the back garden. I haven’t cut it yet this year and the wife went out to get the washing in she said she could just hear a buzz coming from the flowers. I seen at least 8 today and the rest were buzzing inside the overgrow.
Not saying that bee population decline isn’t an issue but that sounds extremely dramatic and unlikely
Walked past a hedge that had a load of bees, one flew under the sole of my shoe as I was walking and I stepped on him before I could react, I’m honestly ashamed of myself