Rights, have given them both a dose of epsom salts and stopped watering for now ! Let's see how they get on. thanks all. by heck, this gardening lark can be such hard work and can be so contradictory can't it. But I do love it. On another note, gardens teeming with lovely ladybirds but have noticed such a lack of bees this year (NW, good old Lancashire), my honeysuckle used to be almost moving over summer and this year has been noticeably quiet. So sad, bumblebee hotel next purchase. a lovely sunny Sunday September afternoon to you all
Plant snowdrops, daffodils, hellebores and pulmonarias for early spring flwoers which will provide food sources for early bumble bees to forage. That will help your population improve and then you'll have guests in your hotel. Keep them going through the season with plenty of other nectar rich plants and try and make sure there are simple, single forms rather than doubles which are often nectar free.
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Rights, have given them both a dose of epsom salts and stopped watering for now ! Let's see how they get on. thanks all. by heck, this gardening lark can be such hard work and can be so contradictory can't it. But I do love it. On another note, gardens teeming with lovely ladybirds but have noticed such a lack of bees this year (NW, good old Lancashire), my honeysuckle used to be almost moving over summer and this year has been noticeably quiet. So sad, bumblebee hotel next purchase. a lovely sunny Sunday September afternoon to you all
Plant snowdrops, daffodils, hellebores and pulmonarias for early spring flwoers which will provide food sources for early bumble bees to forage. That will help your population improve and then you'll have guests in your hotel. Keep them going through the season with plenty of other nectar rich plants and try and make sure there are simple, single forms rather than doubles which are often nectar free.
This is what the RHS advises for bees - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=648