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- - - - Provide flowering plants from early spring to late autumn and winter.
        
        Bumblebees forage for nectar and pollen for much of their annual lifecycle.
        
        Choose plants with long flowering times, and keep them flowering by ‘deadheading’ as flowers die.
      - Grow flowers with different shaped flowers.
        
        some bumblebees with short tongues forage on open, simple flowers such as apple blossom while bumblebees with long tongues can forage on deeper tube-shaped flowers such as foxgloves.
      - Plant flowers in clumps or clusters.
        
        This will help bumblebees save energy as they can get from flower to flower more quickly.
  - - - Some plants, for example beans and blackcurrants are nearly always bee-pollinated, and can easily be grown in pots, grow bags or directly in the ground in amongst other flowering plants.
        
        They needn’t take up too much space although they might need vertical support with stakes and regular watering.
        
        Apple
        
        Raspberry
        
        Blueberry
        
        Blackberries
        
        Broad beans
        
        French beans
        
        Runner beans
        
        Tomatoes
        
        Peppers & chillis
        
        Redcurrants
        
        Strawberries
        
        Pumpkins & other squashes
  - - - Place shallow dishes, tubs or saucers of water around your garden, ideally in the shade.
        
        These can attract animals of all sizes – birds, hedgehogs and
        beloved bees
        
        Be sure to add a miniature ramp or pebble steps to allow smaller animals to exit safely.
  - - - Even if you only spray the leaves, the nectar and pollen can become laced with pesticides which harm the insects which visit the flowers.
        
        Natural control methods are the way forward.
        
        You can encourage beneficial predatory insects like ladybirds and lacewings into the garden, that will eat aphids and other garden pests.