DoomsdaysCW<p>Excerpt from "How to make a bee-friendly garden" [in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>]</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BBCGardenersWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCGardenersWorld</span></a> Magazine<br>Published: Tuesday, 31 May 2022 </p><p>"Grow 'woolly' plants</p><p>Wool carder bees are one of the UK's largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolitaryBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolitaryBees</span></a> , and they get their name from their practise of collecting hairs from plant leaves and stems, in order to build the cells within their nests. The plants you can grow to provide the 'wool' include <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LambsEars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LambsEars</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stachys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stachys</span></a>) and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mullein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mullein</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Verbascum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Verbascum</span></a>) species."</p><p><a href="https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/how-to-make-a-bee-friendly-garden/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gardenersworld.com/plants/how-</span><span class="invisible">to-make-a-bee-friendly-garden/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKGardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKGardens</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GardeningForPollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GardeningForPollinators</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GardeningForBees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GardeningForBees</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeeFriendlyGardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeeFriendlyGardens</span></a></p>