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We grow organic plants for bees: wild herbs, shrubs, trees and bee pastures

Welcome to our redesigned website! On the right are the new search categories we hope you enjoy browsing and shopping for wild, organic plants for bees along with our wild, organic seeds for bee plants and bee pastures. 🙂

As usual, we ship plants, plugs and seeds to the UK and Northern Ireland and Europe; Orders of plants to Europe are calculated for shipping by emailing your requirements to us, (seeds to Europe can be ordered online). To contact us please email: info@beehappyplants.co.uk 🙂

We use organic growing methods to produce the healthiest plants free from toxic residues, with the purest pollen and nectar for all bees and other pollinating insects. Seed-grown and with a healthy gene-pool, they also have the ability to evolve to survive climate change 🙂

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Arbutus-Unedo

Arbutus Unedo

3L (10-20cm):
£12.00

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Allium-Schoenoprasum

Allium Schoenoprasum

2 x 9cm pots:£6.00

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Echinaceae-purpurea

Echinacea Purpurea

2 x 9cm pots:£6.00

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Leonurus-cardiaca

Leonurus
Cardiaca2 x 1l plants:
£7.00More Info
Leptospermum

Leptospermum scoparium

2 year old tree: £6.00

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Nepeta-cataria

Nepeta Cataria

1l plant:£6.00

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Perovskia Atriplicifolia

Perovskia
Atriplicifolia2 x 1l plants:£7.00More Info
Prunus-cerasifera-myrobalan

Prunus Cerasifera
Myrobalan2 x 1l trees:£7.00More Info

Why we grow wild, organic plants for bees and wild, organic seeds for bee plants.

Start@Kew 2011
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned in their recent Global Bee Colony Disorders and other Threats to Insect Pollinators report that ‘An estimated 20,000 flowering plant species, upon which many bee species depend for food, could be lost over the coming decades unless conservation efforts are stepped up’.

All flowering plants have evolved over millions of years with their pollinators in mutual-dependency on each other. The plants produce pollen and nectar in return for pollination, which produces fruit and seed. Bees are the primary pollinators, but other pollinators include butterflies, moths, midges, dragonflies and some wasps.

In recent years we have seen a loss of wild plant habitats and species. And while the market has been flooded with artificial hybrid-clones, most of which provide no pollen, or nectar, nor seed, all pollinators are going hungry. Decline of original wild plant species will cause further decline and extinction of pollinators.

Wild (or horticultural term ‘species’) plants, on the other hand, are unaltered by man. They have evolved to support their pollinators with perfect forage, and have the ability, through diverse gene-pools, of evolutionary adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Conserving these wild plants in our gardens could save pollinators, and organic growing methods ensure there are no toxic residues in pollinators’ food sources.

(Sarah Holdsworth, 2013)

We support the following charities:

bee-research
beekeeper
bumblebee-conservation
buglife
plantlife
flora
heritage
kew
kew-seed-bank
Copyright © 2014 Sarah Holdsworth for Bee Happy Plants. No part of this website may be reproduced without prior permission of Bee Happy Plants

Acknowledgements

Thanks to WDJ Kirk & FN Howes for their work ‘Plants For Bees’ and IBRA whose information about bee pollinators has enriched our descriptions. We sell this book from our ‘Bee Happy gifts’ tab 🙂

Thanks to friends, family and workers including the honeybees and other bees and pollinators at Bee Happy Plants’ nursery; for bee-ing 🙂

Thanks to ‘Caroline’s Websites’ for a beautifully designed website and unwavering patience to make it all work for us and our customers 🙂

Thanks to Wikimedia for some of the images which are not our own 🙂