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Pollinators, plants and nature. Also a plant nursery growing organic plants to help support pollinators in your garden. Based in Monmouthshire but sales through https://www.rosybee.com/

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Mar 23

We are have updated our research into which garden plants attract the most pollinators. Our original research included 5 years of data. We then moved house so this is now 9 years of data over 2 different locations.
www.rosybee.com/research-study

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · 15d

End of season plant sale. Last chance to buy this year. Rosybee.com

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Caroline S. Chaboo @cschaboo.bsky.social · 26d

www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

www.npr.org

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Aug 24

Shield bug on rudbeckia (about the best colour left in our parched garden)

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Aug 22

The buzziest plant in the garden this morning is origanum compacta. Impervious to drought apparently! 4 butterflies and 3 bumblebees in a 30cm circle.

Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Aug 19

Bumblebees on purple loosestrife overnight

Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’ve been focusing on garden plants rather than wild and herbaceous perennials not shrubs, so different data sets.

Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jul 19

The eryngium giganteums have done well this year and look fab with the echinacea. As self-seeders this is their composition.

Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jul 15

The soldier beetles seem to love the eryngium plenum this year.

Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jul 11

We have a stall at Whichford pottery in the north Cotswolds tomorrow supporting a talk by Kate Bradbury.
Come and say ‘hi’ if you are in the area.

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jul 5

Lavender‘eidelweis’ busy with buff-tails this afternoon. Our longest-flowering lavender

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jul 4

Tiny bee on thrift (lasioglossum on Armenia maratima)

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jun 30

www.rosybee.com/plants/helia.... New to our range. Tall perennial sunflower.

Helianthus 'lemon queen' — rosybee - plants for bees

Tray of 3 (they get big) This is a perannial sunflower that grows in clumps in to 2m (6ft) tall. If you want some height and drama at the back of a sunny border, this is the plant. Flowers in August...

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Prof Duncan Westbury @duncanwestbury.bsky.social · Jun 29

This is what happens when non-native managed pollinators share resources with our wild native pollinators. I’m fed up with those that are #BeeWashing

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jun 28

Common names are great if you are only studying wild flowers. But they are lack accuracy and are not the names on the plants in the garden centres.

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jun 27

Nope. It’s definitely verbascum nigrum album. I grew it myself from seed.

Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jun 27

I hadn’t noticed before that verbascum nigrum has bright orange pollen. These plants only have nectar first thing in the morning but they were busy this morning.

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jun 26

Green-veined white on geranium

Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jun 13

Hoverfly on campanula glomerata

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · Jun 11

Lots of six-spot burnet moths in the meadow yesterday

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · Jun 3

Some ideas on what flowers to grow to help bees cope with hot weather from @The_Buzz_Club "Bees & Heatwaves" citizen science project, download report from link below:
www.thebuzzclub.uk/bees-heatwaves
@yanetsepulveda

Bees & Heatwaves | Buzz Club

www.thebuzzclub.uk

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · May 22

This is how we have our tea-breaks at Rosybee

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · May 16

The long-horn bees are back in our meadow. Hurrah! I was really worried that last years wet spring might have scuppered their mating chances but all is well. Birdsfoot trefoil- so valuable.

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · May 16

time to repost this!

Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · Sep 4

Echium vulgare, Viper’s Bugloss: invert associates
Biennial herb flowers June–September, high nectar production & speedy replenishment, pollinated by long-tongued inverts; bees, butterflies & moths. As a larval host, it supports almost 40 spp.
Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora PD

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · May 14

First ‘cuckoo’ bumblebee I’ve seen this year.

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Rosybeeplants @rosybeeplants.bsky.social · May 12

www.rosybee.com/plants/borage reduced before they get too big - £7 for 6

Borage (annual) — rosybee - plants for bees

Tray of 6+ plants Annual. An old herb garden plant and you can add it to cocktails! One of the best nectar sources from June as the flowers refill every 30 minutes. 70cm high, blue flowers. Let the f...

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