About 20m from my home apiary I have seven beds measuring 5m x 2m.
This spring I decided to reserve two of these for flowers for pollinators.
So in spring I bought a box of seeds (a box as big as a large book, seeds suspended in vermiculite) and sowed these.
Dear enough at about £10.
On the box it claimed this was approved by the RHS for pollinators. Contains a very long list of annuals and perennials.
So far, I have hardly seen any pollinators visiting this plot. The odd honeybees was seen on the blue cornflowers but there was no interest with the rest.
My second and different seed box has grown but not yet in flower as it was sown much later.
I won't mention the name but this product is produced by a very reputable seed producer.
So is seed packaging like fishing lures in that they are designed to first catch a fisherman?
Sometimes it doesn't always do what it says on the tin.
This spring I decided to reserve two of these for flowers for pollinators.
So in spring I bought a box of seeds (a box as big as a large book, seeds suspended in vermiculite) and sowed these.
Dear enough at about £10.
On the box it claimed this was approved by the RHS for pollinators. Contains a very long list of annuals and perennials.
So far, I have hardly seen any pollinators visiting this plot. The odd honeybees was seen on the blue cornflowers but there was no interest with the rest.
My second and different seed box has grown but not yet in flower as it was sown much later.
I won't mention the name but this product is produced by a very reputable seed producer.
So is seed packaging like fishing lures in that they are designed to first catch a fisherman?
Sometimes it doesn't always do what it says on the tin.