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Forum Highlights 25th Jul: bags, bees & building up savings

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The beauty of the MSE Forum is that it's a place for real people to freely share their knowledge and experience with one another. Let's explore what MoneySavers have been chatting about this week.

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  • ShinyStarlight1
    ShinyStarlight1 Posts: 214 Forumite
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    edited 26 July at 4:09PM

    We try to go to a garden centre once a month to see what the bees land on. Whatever it is, we get it. Our aim is to have a bee-friendly garden all year, if possible.

  • StewedApple
    StewedApple Posts: 45 Forumite
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    Ivy - flowers in late autumn/winter.

    Honeybees (and others) do not hibernate, and are attracted to gardens with a succession of flowering plants.


    The biggest threat to bees is mono-crop culture e.g. hectare upon hectare of rapeseed - this mono-cropping technique is good for agribusiness but has a very limited flowering season - leaving bees with little or nothing to feed on.

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