The Great Sunflower Project, a project that plans to unravel the
mystery of the disappearing pollinators, pulls together data
that you help them collect. With this data it will create a
database to help understand what is happening to the bee
pollinators and how our green spaces are connected. Sunflowers
is an easy-to-grow plant that gives height to the herb garden
and is wildy attractive to birds and bees. • Sign up and plant
your sunflowers. • Watch your sunflower for 15 minutes: Write
down how long it takes for the first five bees to arrive at your
sunflower. After 15 minutes, you can stop. If you haven’t seen 5
bees by then, the Great Sunflower Project want to know! • Enter
your data online. By watching and recording the bees at these
sunflowers, you can help with the research the Great Sunflower
Project is doing to understand the challenges that bees are
facing. Grow annual ‘Lemon Queen’ sunflowers (Helianthus anus).
I got mine from Renee’s Garden. ‘Lemon Queen’ is a lovely
branching variety that is part