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Nature's Babe
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Manuka has anti bacterial anti viral and anti fungal properties, a bee magnet plant helps protect bees, should make for similar properties in honey too.

http://beehappyplants.co.uk/products/le ... manuka/93/

enter to win some bee friendly garden plants too. :D
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Nature's Babe
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I thought I would add the plants in the veg patch that proved really popular with the pollinators. The Achocha proved a real magnet for hoverflies and they liked the marigolds..Solitary bees, hoverflies and honey bees loved tne borage and the marsh mallow. Bumble bees favourites were the foxgloves and nasturtium and borage. It was so cool to see the tiniest pollinators enjoying the tiny flowers on the thyme golden oregano mint etc. Moths enjoyed the nicotinea. I have some phacaelia to try next year
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