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  • jaybb3rw0cky@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    I went outside into my garden and looked at all my lavender (it has self-set everywhere, as a “weed” is wanton to do, and I’ve dug it up and planted it in some form of order) - there’s plenty of flowers and yet not a bee to be seen. It was really fucking depressing.

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      1 year ago

      My balcony plants are absolutely frothing with bees, maybe that’s where they all are. I’ll tell them to go hang out at yours for a bit. They love the rosemary (which just keeps flowering all the time, it’s insane) and the endlessly self-seeding calendulas and the odd native plants from an old planter from a former friend (there’s bulbine lily and some kind of purple Asteraceae (Senecio maybe)).

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        1 year ago

        That’s awesome that you get so many on your balcony. And thank you, I’d love the little visit! I didn’t check my rosemary as it’s around the other side of the house, but I should have. Maybe they were all having a roast party or something and that’s where mine were?