Sarah Raven's Bees, Butterflies and Blooms

Heres a good BBC programme about wildlife friendly gardening and how to attract bees and butterlfies to your garden. It's fascinating to see how just changing the types of flowers used in borders can attract so many more butterflies, bees, and hoverflies.

Sarah Raven visits Harrogate, who always do well in Britain and Bloom and arranges for the gardening teams to trial some beds using nectar rich plants rather than the standard bedding plants such as Begonias. When the Britain in Bloom judges are visiting they are in a park with various beds, and the one which has been planted with the nectar rich plants such as single head Dahlias is buzzing with activity, whereas just a few metres away beds planted with the usual displays are bee free zones.

It all comes down to nectar and by the time you have finished watching, I'm sure you'll be inspired to think about adding a few nectar rich plants to your garden this coming season.

WATCH ON BBC IPLAYER VIA LINK BELOW

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01c89vp/Bees_Butterflies_and_Blooms_Towns_Gardens_and_Britain_in_Bloom/