Pollination is as important to gardeners as it is to farmers and commercial growers, without it fruit and vegetables do not set and yields are reduced.
Bees are the most important pollinating insect and their decline in numbers has been widely reported recently. Historically the only answer for a gardener has been to plant bee friendly plants or flowers to help attract the many different bee species.
But that is about to change with the introduction of Harrod Horticultural’s exclusive new product range – Beepol. Beepol is set to be the bee’s knees – enabling gardeners to have their own working Bumble Bee colony!
Enjoy the benefits of Bumblebee pollination in your garden with the Beepol Garden Hive or the Beepol Bumblebee Garden Lodge:
- The Beepol Garden Hive – Exclusively available by mail order from Harrod Horticultural, contains a live colony of bumblebees housed and supplied in a maintenance free hive.
- The hive contains a queen bumblebee, workers and bee food and is populated with a native UK species of Bumblebee, all primed and ready to pollinate and therefore increase the yields of your garden and greenhouse fruit, vegetables and flowers for the summer!
- The Bumblebees are released by an easy to use trap door system. Bumblebees are more efficient pollinators than honeybees because they visit more flowers and carry heavier loads, are active at lower temperatures than honeybees and use “buzz pollination”, which helps pollinate a wider variety of plants. Priced at £64.95 + £4.95 P+P.
The Beepol Bumblebee Lodge – Also exclusively available from Harrod Horticultural, is based on traditional beehive designs and is made of cedar from FSC grown timber sources.
It comes complete with a Beepol Garden Hive housed inside.
- Bumblebee colonies do not continue through the winter and will die back in the late summer or autumn, when the new queen bumblebees have dispersed. The old hive can be taken out and a new one placed in the Beepol Bumblebee Lodge the following spring, ensuring you have your own Bumblebee population each year. Priced at £124.95 plus £4.95 P+P.
- The Bumblebee lodge comes with a voucher to send away for the bees when they are in season from mid March to the end of August.
Pre-order your Beepol Bumblebee Hives and Lodges from Harrod Horticultural now, to ensure you are one of the first to benefit from these industrious and fascinating pollinators!
Tel: (0845) 402 5300