BEE FRIENDLY IN BRISTOL
The first things that hit you when you step inside Bower Ashton Allotments in Bristol are the flowers. Every plot seems to go for something in the floral line, whether it’s towering hollyhocks, golden achilleas, the gladioli for cut flowers in formal rows or the can-be-poisonous corn cockle aka the ‘bastard nigella’.
The veg is still there and there is also a proliferation of fruit trees – pear, plum, greengage, apples – with at least one on every plot, but it’s the flowers that stand out.
The bees like this place and the plot-holders like bees. Several of them mention how they grow the flowers with the bees in mind. The bees are
