Explore "pollinator" with insightful episodes like "245 - Bee Friendly Gardening with Elliott Gordon", "Episode 254 - Buddlejas and Lavenders", "243 - Bee Friendly Gardening", "242 - Bee Friendly Wine (King Estate)" and "5 Fall Blooming Native Plants I Love" from podcasts like ""PolliNation Podcast", "Roots and All - Gardening Podcast", "PolliNation Podcast", "PolliNation Podcast" and "Backyard Ecology"" and more!
We continue on our bee friendly gardening kick with a trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico to hear how one naturalist transformed his front yard into biodiversity hotspot. Using tools like iNaturalist, he has documented over 90 bee species and 1,200 other insects on less than a quarter acre of land.
This week, my guest is Andrew Bullock, who runs The Lavender Garden Nursery. Andrew holds the National Collection of Buddlejas and grows a huge range of lavenders and buddlejas from his nursery in The Cotswolds. We talk about how to attract pollinators to your garden, when and how to prune your buddlejas and lavenders, whether buddlejas are invasive, why lavenders are sometimes short-lived and anything else you ever wanted to know about these two plants for pollinators.
Dr Ian Bedford’s Bug of the Week: Mosquitoes
What We Talk About
Which is better for bees - buddleja or lavender?
The best varieties for bees/butterflies/pollinators in general
Night time pollinators
How to grow lavender and buddleja
When to prune and how much to take off
Buddleja - invasive?
Causes of short-lived lavender
Links
Contact Andrew on the phone: 01453 860356 or 07837 582943
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With the season for pollinator gardening winds down, it is a great time to start planning your garden for next year. In this episode we we learn about a national program to connect gardeners together and provide them with resources to up their pollinator gardener game.
The Oregon Bee Friendly Wine Tour is coming to an end for 2023. We hear about what makes King Estate a great place for bees, get some gardening tips and hear about an event hosted along with the Save the Bee Foundation.
Fall is an extremely important time for pollinators, so having plenty of flowers available at this time of year is crucial if one of your goals is to attract pollinators. Luckily, there are lots of fall blooming, native plants that you can grow in your gardens.
In the last Backyard Ecology podcast episode I talked about five late summer blooming native wildflowers that I love. Lots of people contacted me and said that they loved the episode and would like to hear more of my favorites. So, this time I thought I would share five of the fall blooming native plants that I love.
I’m loosely defining fall as August through October. And just like last time, I’m not saying these are “the best native plants” to include in your pollinator garden. Because the best native plants for your yard and your goals, may not be the same plants that would be best for my yard, your neighbor’s yard, or for someone in a different state.
These are simply a few of the many native plants that I love which bloom in the fall, that the pollinators love, that songbirds love, and which work well in a garden setting. You’ll have to decide if they are right for you or not. I’m also defining native as native to my area, which means you’ll have to double check whether these plants are native to where you live.
To make it easier for you to refer back to particular parts of the podcast, here are the plants and the time I start talking about each:
In this episode we chat to Jim Jeffrey, NatureScot’s Pollinator Strategy Manager, who explains the importance and diversity of Scotland's pollinators, and highlights how they're faring in the recent pollinator progress report.
Jim also showcases examples of projects up and down the country helping reverse nature loss, and he provides some great tips for ways we can all make Scotland more pollinator-friendly.
Read more:
Pollinator Strategy for Scotland: https://www.nature.scot/doc/pollinator-strategy-scotland-2017-2027
Progress report: https://www.nature.scot/progress-pollinators
How to help nature this spring: https://www.nature.scot/makespace
It’s spring, and if you have a garden that means it’s time for yardwork—raking out dead leaves, planting annuals, fertilizing the lawn. Here, Medcan’s Dr. Lorne Greenspan teams up with the legendary gardening expert Mark Cullen to make the argument that gardening is one of the single best things you can do for your overall wellness, with compelling benefits from an eat, move and think perspective—regardless of your age.
Did you know that ⅓ of our food supply is dependent on bees?
The truth is, we really don’t know much about bees, or all the amazing things they do for mankind. Carly Stein, CEO and founder of Beekeepers Naturals, made it her mission to advocate not only for human health, but for the health and safety of bees everywhere. By spreading her knowledge of just all the incredible things bees are capable of, she’s doing just that.
|| LINKS || www.beekeepersnaturals.com/darin | Full Show Notes - https://darinolien.com/why-we-should-be-advocating-for-the-bees-carly-stein/
Why are bee populations being decimated around the world? It’s a disturbing and puzzling question for many biologists and bee lovers. And it’s a critical question for humanity since our survival depends on theirs. Amro Zayed is heading a huge research project called BeeCSI. He and his team are sleuthing their way through possible suspects and solutions to help bees survive – and thrive.
Guest:
Amro Zayed is a biologist with York University. If you’d like to know more about his work with BeeCSI and other work he’s involved with, check out this link:
https://biology.gradstudies.yorku.ca/faculty/a-zayed/
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Chocolate. It’s rare to find anyone who isn’t partial to a square or two of this delicious treat. But is its very existence in danger? (*Cue worried faces.*) In this episode of the Big Questions Podcast we chat to chocoholic and researcher Acheampong Atta-Boateng, who studies the relationship between cocoa trees and their micro-pollinators. We hear about how monocropping, pesticides and climate change all pose a risk to the cocoa tree and ask – could chocolate go extinct?
Today I will be talking with Tyler Kanczuzewski for Part 2 on Inovateus Solar. Last week was Part 1, so feel free to go back and check that out if you haven’t already. Tyler is the VP of Marketing & Sustainability at Inovateus Solar which is based in South Bend, IN and is the top midwest solar energy provider with over 500 MW of renewable energy. Today we will cover various topics including the use of pollinator plants around solar panels as well as waste mitigation goals.
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Check out Inovateus Solar: https://www.inovateus.com/
Tip of the Week: Do not flush old or unwanted medications down the toilet. Instead, take them to a medication take back program. Walgreens is one of many places that you can take back old or unwanted medications so they can properly dispose of them. For more info, check this out: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-06/documents/how-to-dispose-medicines.pdf
It's Pollinator Week! This Episode of the All About Quincy Podcast explores the Honey Bee and their expanding role in the City of Quincy and what we can do to protect them!
We talk with Connie Schmotzer, coordinator of the pollinator garden certification program, about planting for pollinators, where to source native plants, and the details of the certification program.
A gardening podcast for seasoned and novice gardeners alike. Meet Good Chives Only host, Ashleigh, and learn about her journey to growing vegetables, fruits and native flowers.
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