The plaque in the picture is in the enchanted garden in Como Park. The garden is designed to be enjoyed by human visitors and attractive to nature’s pollinators like bees and butterflies.
As a gardener I find the lack of bees alarming. There are some bees but not very many and I don’t see nearly as many butterflies either. I have read that 75% of the plants grown for food are pollinated by wild type pollinators. I can’t imagine a world without home grown tomatoes and it is the bees and other pollinators that make it happen right in my own back yard.
It is also important to grow a variety of plants because they provide food or habitat for a variety of pollinators and other animals and insects. We tend to get rid of everything that grows naturally and replace it all with a few varieties of plants and flowers available at the local nursery.
There is a theory that if the bees all die mankind is next.
There are numerous websites dedicated to gardening, green gardening and environmentally friendly gardening. The EPA has some simple and useful information.
Good post. I had a lot of bees around my native plants late last year. Hopefully they are still around. I haven’t seen many butterflies this year yet though.
Very few butterflies this year and not nearly as many bees as I am used to seeing