They've had to import bees from Texas, the Dakotas and farther east. They've even brought in some colonies from Australia. That's driving costs up. |
You know how it is when you go mall shopping. You're after just one thing but you see something else in another store window and you buy it. It's the same with bees. They'll spend more time in a diverse garden then they would if the same flowering plants were isolated elsewhere. |
You want a series of different kinds of flowers blooming at the same time for different kinds of bees. |