[Mighty Bee]

Saw this online and thought it was interesting.

http://www.kmbc.com/article/want-to-help-save-the-bees-stop-mowing-your-lawn/19596252

 

[Rader Sidetrack]

A couple of photos of my back yard ...






... the front yard is similar.

 

[snl]

Graham,
No toilet planters or rusty cars? 😏

 

[Rader Sidetrack]

No toilet planters: no rusty vehicles.

I'd prefer to have a 'meadow' 12 months per year, but Mother Nature doesn't cooperate - if I don't mow eventually, I get the forest reclaiming the yard, and that is bad from a fire perspective.

I'll start mowing after full redbud bloom, probably within 10 days.

FYI, no neighbors are close enough to see whether or not I mow. k:

 

[Tennessee's Bees LLC]

Bees can't eat grass and I hate paying for gas.....

 

[tpope]

Nice stand of bee food Graham. It reminds me of my yard except I didn't see any white clover blooming. Mine can be seen from the road, but I don't care. When the purple dead nettle finally quits yielding, I'll mow it down and rake it up for the compost pile.

 

[RayMarler]

What a very lovely yard you have there Graham.
I'm hoping there's 1 good shade tree with a small table, a few chairs, and a BBQ in place to spend quality R&R time.

 

[Inyadika]

I totally agree with that affirmation. We must be careful with the environment where bees are living.

 

[Boondocks]

Where I live the Callery pears (wild pear trees from SE Asia) flower buds are opening. I can mow the grass then because the bees have no interest in the clover, dandelion, etc. Last year I had been feeding 1:1 syrup and once the pears bloomed I only saw a few bees taking syrup.

 

[Inyadika]

Yes, the syrup is not the best idea.