After a few weeks of pooling together our money and gathering various bee attracting plants, we all met up at the garden today, to get our hands dirty. The light rain from last night made the soil moist and perfect for tiling. First we racked off dead leaves and branches and then smoothed out the larger clumps of soil to further prep the area. We were surprised and delighted to find that the soil was rich with bugs and worms and didn't seem to need mulch or manure. After fully prepping the area and marking out the brick pathways we were finally ready for the fun part; planting! We placed the larger trees in areas where they would have more space to grow, and filled in the rest with Rosemary, Lemon Verbena, Salvia, Cestrum, African Basil, Osteospermum Daisies, Mallow and Nicotina. Within the next few days we will post a list of garden centers that provide native bee plants, if you would like to create one of your own. It doesn't take much space to create a bee sanctuary. More to come shortly, so stay tuned:)
