12 Flowers To Plant For Bees & Pollinators

12 Flowers to Plant for Bees & Pollinators

The bee population is more at risk than ever. You may have seen recommendations that you save dandelions for bees in spring, but what else can you plant that bees will love? Planting for our pollinators is so important for not only them, but us too! Here’s a few ideas to get you started, but tailor your planting to your location and your native pollinators. All the plants in this list also provide for us with food and medicine.

1. Bee Balm: An excellent flower for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators. Bee balm is also edible and medicinal and can be used in a tea to alleviate cold symptoms.

2. Borage: Great for companion planting since it repels bad bugs while attracting pollinators like bees. Edible borage flowers are great on top of salads or desserts and are used medicinally for the respiratory and cardiovascular system.

3. Calendula: Bees love calendula! Super easy to grow and readily self seeds. In mild climates calendula can grow right through the winter and in cold climates they’re one of the first flowers in the spring, making them a super important forage for bees! The flowers are edible and highly medicinal. It’s great for the skin and makes a great salve.

4. Chives: Easy to grow, come back year after year, and bees love their pink blossoms. Chives are a great culinary herb that grows through the spring and summer.

5. Lavender: An important staple for bees and other pollinators thanks to it’s long blooming season. Lavender is a tasty edible flower that’s also highly aromatic and wonderfully calming.

6. Mint: Bees and other beneficial insects love mint flowers. Peppermint, spearmint, chocolate mint, wild mint, lemon balm, the bees love it all! Mint is also of course a great culinary herb and has many medicinal uses, mainly for the digestive system.

7. Oregano: Bees and hummingbirds love oregano and marjoram (a close relative). It’s a perennial herb, great for culinary uses, and also highly medicinal! It has strong antibacterial and anti-fungal properties and is a powerful immune system booster.

8. Rosemary: There are many varieties of rosemary, but all have flowers that bees appreciate. It explodes with blossoms in the spring. It’s a great herb to use in the kitchen and has some health benefits as well, like being great for the hair and scalp.

9. Sage: Garden sage and wild varieties have purple and blue flower spikes that attract all sorts of pollinators. It’s easy to grow and will live for years without much input. It’s a popular culinary herb with medicinal benefits of being anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anti-fungal, and helps heal colds and sore throats.

10. Sunflower: Big and beautiful! Their bright flowers create a landing pad for bees. They’re full of pollen that the bees love and also provide us with yummy sunflower seeds. Sunflower petals are also edible and have some medicinal uses.

11. Thyme: The tiny blossoms of thyme are highly regarded by bees and other pollinators. It’s also a kitchen herb that comes in many varieties and also a powerful medicinal plant that’s great for the immune system.

12. Yarrow: The broad and semi-flat flowers are easy for bees to rest on while gathering pollen. It comes in multiple colors and will readily self seed, but it does have a bit of spreading habit so keep this in mind! Yarrow is edible but bitter so most use it medicinally for it’s wound healing and blood clotting abilities, reducing fevers, and helping heal urinary tract infections.

Keep Reading: https://www.growforagecookferment.com/flowers-to-plant-for-bees/

chrome extensions for disabilities masterpost

I have seen a lot of posts on here talking about individual extensions for chrome to help people, but I haven’t seen a place where they’re compiled together. So here you are! (If you find anymore, let me know!)

edit: ublock, stylish with lowercase text theme, and No more Tumblr players was added, other extensions masterposts section added, no caps was removed font/text

no caps - Makes everything lower case (found to contain malware)

Stylish: download different themes that can help with accessibility (lowercase text theme can be found here, works like no caps)

Open Dyslexic: changes the font to Open Dyslexic and makes it larger. Personal favourite.

Dyslexie: changes the font to dyslexie and allows change to font size and colour (blue). Can be turned off. (Doesn’t seem to work on facebook)

Font Changer: Allows you to change the font on specific website or on everything using a Google Font. I believe you can also upload your own, if there’s a specific font you need.

BeeLine Reader: Uses a gradient so your eye follows along one line to the next

overlays/colour change

Color Overlay - Irlen Filter for Chromebook: Puts a coloured overlay over the screen. can choose colour and opacity. 

Sunglasses: Tints the screen grey to reduce contrast

Desaturate: Removes all colour and makes everything a greyscale

High Contrast: Change contrast or invert colour scheme

Deluminate: Similar to High Contrast, but tries to keep photos in tact

G.lux: Makes the colour of the display change depending on the time of day (also cuts down on blue light so it’s easier to fall asleep)

reduce visual distraction

Readability: Can change things such as margins, colours, etc… as well as reduce visual business

Ad Block Plus: blocks ads. What more needs to be said?

µblock:  Similar to Ad Block, but it uses less memory and CPU and doesn’t allow sponsored ads

FlashControl: Stops flash animations running by themselves

Hide GIFS: Allows you to keep GIFS from displaying

Text Mode: Loads pages in black/white, covers images, with text only.

audio

No more tumblr players: disables audio plays on blogs when you’re on them (aka no more autoplay audio)

SpeakIt!: Reads small section of highlighted text aloud

Chrome Speak: Reads small section of highlighted text aloud

Announcify: Reads full web pages. Warning: may stop in the middle of text or not read for the full thing.

other extension masterposts

chrome extensions for ppl w/ paranoia 

post with the firefox version of this list

Larger breast bras vs. smaller breast bras

Tfw when men do that thing where they pretend they have no control over their temper. LOL It’s so funny like am I supposed to pretend that I don’t know you’re completely self-aware and present during this rage performance. Or should I pretend you’re the tortured hero in a movie, possessed by a series of fabricated flashbacks of the war and your father

oh hey, stealth and closeted trans people! i keep forgetting to mention this and idk if everyone already knows but there's this free app called transtracks (android + iOS) that acts as your standard transition tracking app (medical transition, social transition, surgical transition, whatever you're tracking) except it has a stealth mode!

just change your passwords settings to "train tracks"...

... and voila! the app has become for train schedules.

this is what the new decoy password screen pulls up:

it isn't exactly safe for me to be out IRL so i've been using this app for a while now! it's mostly helpful for my peace of mind and in case somebody needs to use my phone because i'm out to my family- but anybody living at home who isnt out or who has nosey/transphobic parents- maybe give it a shot!

fyi if you do figure studies, the croquis cafe guy is a trump supporter so here’s some figure drawing resources that aren’t that: 

senshistock sketch tool

senshistock’s deviantart (queen of queens tbqh)

fatphotoref (password protected, you can dm the creator for the password or ask me but i will only answer if i can see by your blog that you are an artist)

figurosity (free, kinda wild)

jookpub stock

photoref.org (paid packs, run by jenn ravenna tran, so you’d be supporting a woc artist/filmmaker!)

scott eaton’s bodies in motion (paid subscription and kind of pricy but good if you want to spend some time Really Focusing on Anatomy)

posespace (big library, also paid)

drawthis channel on yt

anatomy for artists course on proko (pricey but good)

always gotta mention schoolism

books:

force: drawing human anatomy

morpho books

figure drawing for artists: making every stroke count

andrew loomis books (ALL FREE!!!)

constructive anatomy (haven’t personally read this one but heard it’s good)