BEE FRIENDLY RESOURCES
By planting these flowers below, you’ll help diversify the food source (pollen and nectar)
of your local pollinators. Giving an extra pollination boost to your backyard veggies and fruit trees.
BEE FRIENDLY NATIVES
Here are our recommendations for planting a native bee friendly garden.
🌱 Small St John’s Wort
🌱 Golden Wattle
🌱 Coastal Daisy
🌱 Red Flowering Gum
🌱 Coastal Tea Tree
BEE FRIENDLY SPRING
Here are our recommendations for planting a bee friendly garden during Spring.
🌱 Sweet Alice
🌱 Flowering Thyme
🌱 Everlasting Paper Daisy (native)
🌱 Billy Buttons (native)
🌱 Nasturtiums
BEE FRIENDLY SUMMER
Here are our recommendations for planting a bee friendly flower garden during Summer.
🌱Flowering Dill
🌱Calendula
🌱Hibiscus (native)
🌱Desert Flame (native)
🌱Sunflowers
BEE FRIENDLY AUTUMN
Here are our recommendations for planting a bee friendly garden during Autumn.
🌱 Coastal Daisy (native)
🌱 Echinacea / Cone Flower
🌱 Hakea Pincushion (native)
🌱 Grevillea (native)
🌱 Borage
Why Supermarket Honey is Fake
A feature on Future Proof - July 2023
ABC RADIO PERTH - 22/1/25
Beekeeper Tom jumps into the ABC Perth Studio to talk about the Buzzing BEE Tour, small batch honey, beekeeping techniques & the fascinating World of Bees . Below is a recording of the full segment with ABC afternoons , presented by Jo Trilling
FUN FACTS
HISTORY OF HONEY
Honey is the only food that will never spoil… There was even a jar of honey found in a tomb in ancient Egypt. The honey was dated from 3500 years ago and was still edible!!
NATIVE BEES
There are over 2000 native Australian bees that have been discovered so far.
Native bees can be different colours, sizes and can live in completely different habitats (wood, clay, underground)
Our favourite is the blue banded bee
POLLINATION POWERS
Native Australian bees & honey bees are very important to the environment.
Bees spread pollen between flowers that helps the flowers grow into majority of our favourite fruits, vegetables and seeds. It’s estimated that 1/3 bites of food we will eat today is all thanks to BEES!