Showing posts with label Dunbar Community Centre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dunbar Community Centre. Show all posts

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Messages for the Bees in the Dunbar Community Centre


This garden in Kitsilano, is full of great alliums for bees, including this Sicilian honey garlic. Bravo!


This hawthorn with double pink blossoms is a pink flamingo--I don't think it does anything for bees, which is a shame, because the single hawthorn varieties are one of the best trees for bees.


And here it is: the beautiful Working Holiday Coffee Bar.


Thanks to all the folks who left messages for the bees.


Marriage, birth or burying,
News across the seas,
All your sad or merrying
You must tell the bees.






The horse chestnuts also have a pink variety, but unlike the pink hawthorn it still seems to have the parts to produce nectar and pollen to feed the bees.

Friday, May 6, 2016

Join Me at the Dunbar Community Centre Saturday May 7, 11 am to 1 pm with the Working Holiday Project


Please come on down to the Dunbar Community Centre and make messages and seed packets to take home for the bees from 11 am to 1 pm. This event is a Working Holiday Coffee Bar hosted by The Working Holiday Project. Check out some of the cool things they've been doing.

BTW, did you know your coffee may be pollinated by killer bees?