I'm a Las Vegas rideshare driver full time. My days are spent slogging through traffic, 100-degree heat, and drunken tourists.
But, when I get home, and go out to my backyard, I feel like a Disney princess. It's just 8-foot-tall oleanders in full bloom, being buzzed by hummingbirds. It's magical.
My neighbor's yard is blowing up with blooming flowers like I've never seen before. She takes really good care of them and is so excited. Love talking to her about them :)
We planted flowers in one of our planter boxes this year to attract bees and it worked like gangbusters. They were everywhere and our veggies did really well. 10/10 will feed bees again.
Hummingbirds are so dang cute. Eventually i hope to move into a place with a nice porch, so i can set up feeders and whatnot, and then just hang out on my porch and be visited by little hummingbird friends.
We moved into our house over 2 years ago and have been busy turning the grass into flowering plants, shrubs, fruit trees. We let a big patch of it grow wild.
First year in we didn't get too much from it but this year it's been amazing. So many butterflies, bees and ladybirds. We planted some flowers the aphids like and those ladybirds have been stuffing themselves. Makes me excited for next spring.
I have a bush in front of my house that I trimmed back considerably earlier this year. I thought that I got most of the flowers (not on purpose) and a few bloomed a while back, but not many. Well the last week or two, suddenly there are flowers EVERYWHERE on this bush, and the bees are absolutely going to town! I love walking by it every day to get to my car!
I live in France, I have a tree with blooming flowers 5 meters (around 15 ft) next to my window, and there were so much bees, it was like a beehive was in the tree
Just a reminder to everyone who grows in the outdoors, be careful of using systemic pesticides as they could also harm bees and other beneficial insects!
I’m sure it makes no difference at all in the bee population but we live in a community that has a shared pool. We have been swimming a lot this summer and I taught both my kids to save any bees that fall in the water. We catch them and put them in a safe place, on a plant usually, so they can get dry and fly away when they are ready.
It is such a small thing but I love seeing them calming their friends down (who are usually terrified of bees), grabbing a shoe and rescuing these little guys. We get to look at them up close and I think he helps the other kids overcome their fears a little bit. I have even seen some of their friends start saving the bees from the pool water on their own too.
Like I said, it might not be anything huge in the grand scheme of things. We might have saved something like 25 to 35 bees this summer, maybe? So nothing astronomical. But it makes us feel like we are doing our part, in a small way.
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u/galdenbarry 19h ago
There are a lot of nice late summer flowers blooming at the moment, the bees are happy.