What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. My name's Kevin. As always, this is your host and your source for high quality gardening information.

All right, today we're talking about bees in our garden.

We all know that bees are essential.

They are core pollinators for a lot of our plants.

Of course we can pollinate our plants.

We can do some hand pollination if we want to, but why

would we not want to use nature's creation instead of doing it ourselves?

So how do we get more bees in the garden?

Well, there are a lot of different ways,

and there are too many to go over

in one of these short episodes.

But what I will do is I will run through

a few different plants that you can add that will increase the likelihood that bees end up in your

garden. And these are plants that are rich in nectar and pollen. These are the two things that bees want, so it follows that we

should grow more plants that have high nectar and pollen if we want our bees to be flitting and flying around the garden.

So the first one is Astor.

So this is a beautiful flower.

There are a ton of different types of these.

There's an article on my site about growing them that you can go check out.

But if you do decide to grow asters, just pick one that's native to your area.

It's a really good idea to just keep it native. Bees will be used to that

plant being in that area. They actually are late bloomers as far as flowers go so they help bees stock up on energy

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