Wildflower Seeds

Cheerios started a movement to help the bees. They gave away 100 million wildflower seeds to help raise awareness to the bees cause and get people in touch with nature!

 

Cheerios is a cereal that makes use of honey in some of its products, so as part of their new #bringbackthebees campaign they gave away 100 million wildflower seeds to get people to grow flowers for the bees. They also have a bee as the mascot for the brand, his name is Buzz.

“Buzz is missing because there’s something serious going on with the world’s bees. Bee populations everywhere have been declining at an alarming rate, and that includes honeybees like Buzz.”

Cheerios teamed up with Veseys Seeds to get the seed movement going and never expected to distribute such an important number of seeds.

Cheerios has made a commitment to planting 3,300 hectares of nectar and pollen rich flowers with their oat crops, so that bees and other pollinators can get the nutrients they need to stay strong.

“Honey bees feed on nectar (carbohydrates) and pollen (protein) from a wide variety of flowering plants. While the honey bee forages for nectar and pollen, it transfers pollen from one flower to another, providing the service of pollination, which allows the plant to reproduce. However, bees don’t pollinate all flowers that they visit.”

As we live in the Southern Hemisphere, we decided to share a list of plants available locally, that the bees absolutely love. In the list are a few herbs which will be great for your meals or homeopathic treatments too so they have an awesome double purpose.

  • Lavender
  • Rosemary
  • Hawthorn
  • Daisies
  • Bee Balm
  • Wild Lilac
  • Chives
  • Clover
  • Dandelions
  • Lemon Balm (Melissa)

If you want a break down of seasonal plants for each province in South Africa check out the list provided by the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa (ILASA) here. Kirstenbosch Gardens also submitted a helpful list that has every indigenous plant type you can think of here.


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Sources: Cheerios / ILASA

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Tyler Leigh Vivier is a writer for Good Things Guy.

Her passion is to spread good news across South Africa with a big focus on environmental issues, animal welfare and social upliftment. Outside of Good Things Guy, she is an avid reader and lover of tea.

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