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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.

A close-up of a Buff-tailed bumblebee dusted in pollen and standing on the purple petals of a flower.

Gardening resources

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Monthly planting guides

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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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A garden border teeming with tall, brightly coloured bumblebee-friendly flowers.

Your handy gardening guide

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Bumblebee-friendly planters

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Community planting guide

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Garden pots and tools stacked against wall

Autumn/winter garden maintenance guide

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Red and yellow tomatoes growing on a vine.

Grow your own fruit and vegetables

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Grow your own herbs

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An array of colourful wildflowers in a small garden

How to sow wildflower seeds

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Make your own seedballs

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Leave these five "weeds" to help feed bumblebees

Bumblebee nests

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How to provide bumblebee nest sites

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An illustration of a bumblebee nest in summer. A queen and workers are inside tending to the next batch of eggs.

Make space for bumblebee nests

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Bumblebees attending to the eggs in a nest.

Learn more about bumblebee nests

Guest blogs and articles

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Bumblebee-friendly seed share

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Bee the Change: let’s start a movement!

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From new build to bumblebee haven in Devon

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Pollinator friendly flowers on a balcony

Growing pollinator-friendly flowers on my balcony

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A green roof on a terrace with flowering plants

Green roofs for bumblebees

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A field of wildflowers in a wildlife area.

Farm Wildlife – Six steps for success

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Convert your lawn into a meadow

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Bumblebee on yellow toadflax flower.

Can you bust these seven bumblebee myths?

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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A group of staff and volunteers standing in a field of wildflowers as they look for bumblebees.

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.