Bee City Read-Aloud Fun Day
Buzz on over to Fort Bragg Library for a Bee City Read-Aloud Fun Day!
Learn all about bees, their benefits to our crops, to the environment and to our lives, at this fun, bee-themed event.
10:30-Noon Bee Stories*, Crafts, and Games
2-3 pm Uncle Jer’s Traveling Bee Show
It’s going to be a beezy day! See you there!
*Stories count towards your child’s 1000 Books Before Kindergarten!
MORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN HELP BEES:
From the Fort Bragg Bee City, USA brochure
MAKING FRIENDS WITH BEES
Raising awareness and enhancing habitats with Bee City, USA
WE NEED BEES
They pollinate our food crops and sustain the ecosystems that allow us to live. Both native bees and honey bees are struggling. We can take action to help bees survive and thrive.
OBSERVE
Look around you, get down low or up close. Listen, hear them humming. Notice all the different kinds of bees that liver here.
GO OUT LOOKING
Near where you are at home, work, or at play. Visit pollinators in parks, gardens, orchards, farms, and wild places.
INVITE THEM TO VISIT
Provide pollen and nectar. Grow flowering plants. Arrange plants in groups with blooms every season. Offer refreshments. Provide water in a shallow dish with stones above the waterline or a floating cork raft.
DON’T POISON THEM!
No pesticides or herbicides in your garden, not even organic ones.
INVITE THEM TO STAY
Create nesting habitat for native bees: bare, undisturbed ground, rock walls or rock gardens, cavity nest boxes, soft unpainted wood, hollow plant stems and other small cavities. Or get some beehives for honey bees.
LEARN
BLOOMS FOR BEES
Most CA. natives (N) are deer resistant
Annual (A)
Perennial (P)
*Bee favorites
SPRING BLOOMING
Bush Anemone (P)
California Poppy (A)
Catmint/Catnip* (P)
Echium (P)
Matilija poppies (N) (P)
Penstemon
Phacelia* (N) (A)
Pincushion flower (P)
Seaside Daisy (N) (P)
Salvia (P)
Toadflax (P)
SUMMER BLOOMING
Blue Mist Spirea (P)
Borage* (A)
Coast Buckwheat (N) (P)
Cosmos (P)
Dahlia (P)
Giant Hyssop (P)
Lavender (P)
Monarda/Bee Balm (N) (P)
Rosemary* (P)
Russian Sage (P)
Sea Holly* (N) (P)
Sunflower – ‘Lemon Queen’* (A)
Thrift/Sea Pinks (P)
Yarrow (N) (P)
FALL/WINTER BLOOMING
Aster (N) (A)
Mexican Sage (P)
Sedum ‘Autumn Beauty’*(P)
Wallflower (P)
PERENNIAL SHRUBS/TREES
Big Leaf Maple (N)
Ceanothus/Wild Lilac (N) (early)
Coyote Brush* (N) (late)
Flowering Currant (N)
Manzanita (N) (early)
Service Berry (N)
Thanks to Bee City, USA~Fort Bragg (1st city in CA to become a Bee City!)
Brochure sponsored by: Bee Bold Mendocino, Fort Bragg Garden Club, City of Fort Bragg, Sakina’s Garden & Nursery
