Emma Cutting shows you how to create a native bee garden using your nature strip in her book Melbourne Pollinator Corridor Handbook. It’s a brilliant concept that supports native bees in our city environment, beautifies our streets and makes good use of a nature strip that creates needless work for us to mow on the weekend.
This workbook is a joy to pore over. With clear illustrations, before and after images and step by step onsite photographs, you get a real feel as to how it can be done. Everything is explained from planning and design, preparation of site and plant selection; noting only certain flowers attract bees.
So why plant a wildlife garden on your nature strip? Emma explains that bees are the great pollinators in our environment and supports food growth. Our native bees are disappearing in our urban environments and our urban ecosystems are not supporting them. By building a corridor for bees to buzz over gives them a pathway to explore and pollinate creating less fragmentation of their environment.
Reading books like this one is very inspiring and uplifting. It a time of climate change and uncertainty it provides a positive opportunity for a community to be involved, giving people connection to the environment and hope by doing something for the bees.
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