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Make your garden more bumblebee-friendly

There are lots of quick, simple ways you can make your outdoor space more bumblebee-friendly. Whether you have a garden, an allotment or no outdoor space at all, you can Bee the Change. Get started with our gardening tips and advice.

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Gardening resources

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Your handy gardening guide

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Community planting guide

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Monthly planting guide

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Grow your own fruit and vegetables

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Grow your own herbs

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How to sow wildflower seeds

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Close-up of a Brown-banded carder bumblebee in the centre of a sunflower.

Go pesticide-free in your garden

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Autumn/winter maintenance guide

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Leave these five "weeds" to help feed bumblebees

Other ways you can help

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Bee the Change

Bee the Change is all about quick, simple ways you can make your local area more bumblebee-friendly.

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Become a member

Become a member today and join our fight to save the bumblebees.

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Help us to count the UK's bumblebees

There are currently three different ways that you can help us gather data and track the UK’s bumblebees.