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    All gardeners have been asked to plant flowers which will help the bee population, and fruit production:

    (from the Telegraph):
    Bee keepers are now calling on the public to grow flowers that can provide food for bees during the year such as clover, sunflowers, heather, lavender and cornflowers.

    They are also urging people not to mow their lawns as frequently to allow red and white clover, which is a rich source of food for bees, to blossom through the winter.
    Regular mowing of laws to keep the grass short usually lops off the ball shaped heads of these plants.

    Professor Francis Ratnieks, head of the laboratory of apiculture and social insects at University of Sussex, said: "In the spring, flowers are highly abundant, so bees don't have to travel more than a few hundred metres from their hives to find food.

    "Although the weather is better for foraging in the summer, the flowers that the bees feed on are no longer as common. The British landscape has become impoverished.

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