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Tree bee

Bumblebees and honeybees keep our countryside alive and beautiful, and ensure we can harvest our grain, seeds, fruit and nuts.

Without them it would be a very bleak world indeed.  Climate change, intensive farming practices and disease epidemics have made times tough for our native bee populations and they need all the help they can get to keep their numbers up.

Gardens can be excellent corridors between the hive and the flowering meadows and hedgerows that bees need to keep on buzzing and doing their valuable job.

Northumberland National Park has organised a Bee Friendly to Bees Day for gardeners of all ages to find out from the experts how to turn their gardens into luscious bee-friendly filling stations and shelters.

From 10am-4pm on Sunday July 5, at Chipchase Castle Nursery near Wark, bee specialist, Shaun Hackett, will be giving talks to help people to recognise different types of bee, understand what to do to help bee welfare and learn how make their gardens more bee friendly.

Entry is free and there will be lots of interest for both plant lovers and youngsters who love wildlife. There will also be a whole range of bees’ favourite food plants for sale to create a five star bee buffet in the garden and a bee trail for children.