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Attracting pollinators

OldGoat · 2008-09-22 09:12:04

Hi all. I was browsing around some gardening sites and one little snippet of information I stumbled across was to 'plant yellow flowers to attract pollinators'. Now I can appricate why having attracting in the insets is a good thing but I'm a bit bemused by the reference to the colour. Is there a reason why 'Yellow'…

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Hi all. I was browsing around some gardening sites and one little snippet of information I stumbled across was to 'plant yellow flowers to attract pollinators'. Now I can appricate why having attracting in the insets is a good thing but I'm a bit bemused by the reference to the colour. Is there a reason why 'Yellow' flowers are more attractive to the pollinators and if so what are the best yellow plants to use to draw in the little blighters?
[Curious]OldGoat

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