Plant bee-friendly flowers

Planting bee-friendly flowers and trees is a direct way to improve forage availability for honey bees. Selecting nectar and pollen-rich plant species that bloom at different times of the year provides a continuous food source for bees throughout the foraging season. Creating diverse pollinator gardens and landscapes near apiaries significantly enhances bee nutrition and colony health. This is a DIY approach and involves variable costs depending on the scale of planting and plant choices. Gardening tools are needed for planting, and seed or plant costs vary widely depending on species and quantity.