The Summer is over, Autumn has shed its golden light and gone. Now the Garden is left almost bare of flowers and Bumblebees. While Winter winds blow and the rain falls, a little way beneath the ground the new Bumblebee Queen will sleep.
She will find a place facing North so that she will not be woken by the Winter sunshine which will warm her nesting place. She may find a place beneath a tree or a north facing bank with good drainage, depending upon her species. But while she sleeps there is still movement going on above her as the Spring bulbs are planted, the wild flower seeds sown and in the warmth and hope of Spring the new flowers will have blossomed.
It is important that when the Bumblebee Queen wakes she will have nectar rich flowers to give her energy, the Gardens will have ready for her: Bluebells, Crocus, Grape Hyacinth, Alliums, Daffodil, Lungwort. For more information on Bumblebee hibernation visit the BumbleBee Conservation Trust at BBCT.
She will find a place facing North so that she will not be woken by the Winter sunshine which will warm her nesting place. She may find a place beneath a tree or a north facing bank with good drainage, depending upon her species. But while she sleeps there is still movement going on above her as the Spring bulbs are planted, the wild flower seeds sown and in the warmth and hope of Spring the new flowers will have blossomed.
It is important that when the Bumblebee Queen wakes she will have nectar rich flowers to give her energy, the Gardens will have ready for her: Bluebells, Crocus, Grape Hyacinth, Alliums, Daffodil, Lungwort. For more information on Bumblebee hibernation visit the BumbleBee Conservation Trust at BBCT.