Celebrating World Bee Day - Episode 68

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Sarah Raven

Cook, Arranging, Home, Flower Arranging, Grow, Arrangements, Kitchen, Vegetables, Flowers, Gardener, Veg Garden, Lifestyle, Gardening, Leisure, Home & Garden, Food, Cooking, Arts, Eating, Eat, Growing, Planting, Produce, Garden, Sarah Raven

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today marks the all-important World Bee Day, a chance to acknowledge their role in so much of our essential daily lives, and time to consider how we can help them thrive. We’re celebrating World Bee Day this year on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ by bringing some top tips on creating a natural haven for these fuzzy friends, which flowers are best for visual flair and feeding bees, plus some fantastic actions we can take before we even consider our own gardens. In this episode, discover: Our extra...

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0:00.0	You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on, Arthur Parkinson and my good friend Sarah Raven.
0:25.0	And today we're chatting about something that is very close to both of our hearts.
0:29.5	We are focusing on a new day called World Bee Day and it's all about raising a rareness about bees of all shapesizes and species and how as
0:40.4	gardeners we can help support them because as we all know without bees there would not be any
0:46.3	people and very little life on planet earth so this episode is all about how we can make sure
0:52.1	our gardens are tippity top when it comes to supporting these beautiful
0:56.5	little pollinators.
1:02.4	So Sarah, I know you have been very passionate about bees your whole life and career and I remember
1:08.6	you doing the wonderful documentaries, bees, butterflies and
1:11.9	blooms quite a while ago now. And the episode that I remember very vividly is how you are
1:17.2	very much up against the practice of mass bedding plants and using double flowers instead
1:24.0	of the traditional single ones. So do you think it's changing? Is there hope for bees
1:28.4	in gardens in the UK now? Well, yeah, it's a really tricky one, isn't it? I mean,
1:35.3	well, bee day, which is the 20th of May. And that's a great day and it's great that it's happening.
1:42.6	And I think it is just such a hard thing because
1:45.3	of course, wherever we look or hear or, you know, whether it's David Attenborough or I don't
1:52.0	know, the news or whatever, biodiversity, as we know, is in total, total crisis. And when I made the
1:59.5	program, which was 10 years ago, it was in the main, slightly better
2:03.4	because we've lost more biodiversity in the last 10 years. But I suppose I feel the positive
2:10.3	thread from that is that the young, your sort of age group and younger, are really passionate about it if they know about it.
2:20.4	And so I suppose that's the thing is making something like Well, B Day and the sort of graphics and
2:26.9	the communication around it attractive to really young, you know, kids and upwards is incredibly
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