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Thank you for a delightful video naming some of the plants which are valuable for pollinators. Your yellow rattle colony is impressive!

And yootoob puts an ad for Raid insect killer in before the video…🤬

Thank you for sharing your extensive gardens. God made an abundance with lots of variety. I love it. I never saw a totally Blond Bumblebee until yesterday, I narrowly missed stepping on it as it was barely crawling on the dirt. I offered it my pointer finger and it climbed up passed my shoulder, and on my ear. I got nervous and tried to nudge it down. It fell and I rescued it again and put it in a safe place to rest. I added watered down honey to the side of the dish and got her to drink. I covered her with a net screen. She revived enough to crawl up the cloche screen and nap. She liked to sit on my hand. No predators got her. She didn't leave each time I offered her the world. Last night she passed away. I felt sad but brought her still little body into my kitchen to rest on a faux and dried arrangement of summer flowers. There she rests with a small collection of other bees in my Apiary memorial cemetery. It's beauty lasts as a simply tribute to bees. Bee-kind and don't sting...the cost is great. Darla age 75, retired from city life to the Appalachian mountains in the Beautiful Blue Ridge...southeast USA. Gheers.

I just found you for the first time and I absolutely LOVE your natural garden ! Just stunning 😍 love mother nature at her finest! Thanks for the wonderful example!

Great idea, I will export this in Belgium! Would you need to refill with leaves or fresh water from time to time, to make it last all summer?

Thankyou for sharing your beautiful garden

The humble Bumblebee, they get their jobs done in their short lifespan 🐝

Gorgeous, but hardly rewilding? Excuse me being a pedant please

Great video, lovely to have a tour of your wonderful garden, thanks

Fantastic I've always wondered about bumblebee nests👍

Great Video! Do you clean out the holes and if so, when? Thank you!

Found it so interesting that you said ragged robin prefers damp and shady, my local patch is growing between the paving stones in the sun! Always so neat to learn more about what i can find out and about, every time i think i must come back and make notes. Thanks for sharing :)

I need to plant some vetch ❤ love common carders. I’m also incredibly disappointed with my summer here, it’s 13 degrees. How is that summer?

Hi Dave, do you still own the french property? I would love to see some similar tours there as well!

Very many thanks for an Aladdin’s Cave of gems to entice the bugs, bees and all insects Dave. Is it possible to buy Yellow Rattle as hubby and I are unable to get it anywhere locally?? We thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful time spent in your garden, many thanks and take care.

Could have/Should have mentioned they are very poisonous. My Children now not to touch them, but because of visitors i skipped a few years of growing them. Two small leaves contain enough digitalis to kill an adult. Always wash your hands when you come in contact with the juice.

Great visit thank you 💚

Lovely personality, house, garden and wildlife! What’s not to like?!

Ive read two of your books and applaud you for your commitment and dedication to the smaller creatures that share our gardens and countryside. Your garden is fabulous, I must say, showing that you walk the walk as well as talking the talk.

Definitely a case of 'A day away from your garden is a day wasted'! - Very lovely! I'd love to see a video like this of your farm in France. Do you still have it? What does the farmland look like now you've rewilded that?

Thanks Dave!

Dave, do you get Apis mellifera (what we in Australia call European honeybees) in England? We mostly get them here - apart from Tasmania where they get an introduced bumblebee. We try hard to plant native flowers here (well I am) to try to encourage our native bees, which are usually solitary and much "daintier" than the European honeybees.. Great video!🎉

Great tour of the garden as it is currently, Dave. I loved the section on yellow rattle in particular. We sowed some of that in an area of grassland opposite our house in Devizes and I'm looking to put some in my 'wild' lawn area. When you say you want to extend that area, will you sow more of the seed or do you plant plugs into the grassy area?

What a cold and wet June we have had 🫣 I have been quite depressed about it, because I have been waiting so long for everything to become alive. I hope the weather will change soon. Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden 🤗🐝

Dave now i know why you are wearing glasses😇 wow that was so inspirational, the T V people need you , the schools also need you Thank you

Good video, interesting. I've never found catmint the best for bees although bees certainly do visit my catmint. I've had far more success with Hysopp for bees, but the the very best for bees by far is jasmine beesianum (excuse spelling). Mine was equivalent to the noise from a local power station for noise, bee noise. I try new and different pollinator plants each year. Marjoram is great for my local bees too, I've found in my tiny garden.

Very nice with a tour of your garden. You forgot to show us how your orchid is doing though ;)

It looks like an invitation to a mouse though! Mice! Many, many mice.

I look after my mother's small garden,and we haven't used any fertiliser or chemical control for years. The small front lawn contains Dandelion,Daisy, Buttercup,Hawkbit and Self Heal which all appeared naturally over time. I have added Primrose,Sweet Violet,Cowslip and Ox Eye Daisey also. We have resident meadow ants and i have also noticed grasshoppers in the longer fringes. I'm always interested to see what turns up next.

I have added over 100 species of wildflowers to my cottage garden here in Wales and I love them. "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." A.A.Milne

Your knowledge is quite inspirational. I always feel l learn so much from your videos.🤗👍

This was an absolutly lovely video! 💚 Your garden is amazing. My take on this "bewildering" is sooo small in comparison... 😄 It's interesting to see all the species of bumblebee you have, that don't live here in Sweden. This summer is tragicly quiet. We had really cold weather after the bumblebees had woken, and almost all of them seem to have died. 😭 There are none left of the usually most common spiechie. I'm really sad. Will they come back again from elsewhere you think? Thank you!

Lovely garden and tour thank you - could you list your plants so I can go shopping!!!!!!!!

Thank you for these videos they are really uplifting.

Absolutely fascinating, thank you, Dave.

I've had about 20mm of rain in the last month, probably less than that. I've rewilded areas of my garden, today I've had more rain than the last month combined, the garden which was vertical yesterday, is today a horizontal garden.

Fantastic garden Well done

Great video, so much information and ideas. Has the damp weather impacted negatively on the numbers of bees and butterflies this year? It seems to have here in Yorkshire, certainly on butterfly numbers in the garden so far.

I’m making a few changes to my front garden and I’ve just planted catmint up the side of my path, hoping it attracts lots of bees and not all the neighbourhood cats 😄 I’ve had lots of summer and winter flowering heather for years which are absolute bee and butterfly magnets of all varieties but they are starting to go really woody so I might have to replace them with younger plants soon. I live in between a lot of Surrey heathland so I like to think of my heather as a pitstop for insects travelling between them. Interesting hearing about the secondary nectar robbers, I knew about nectar robbing but didn’t realise some utilised ready made holes, very clever. Thanks for the tour, always love seeing what is growing in your beautiful garden.

Should the title be June 2024?

Very many thanks for another great video Dave. My favourite of some years ago were the Russet, gorgeous! Our favourites of today are Braebans! I’m not at all sure of how I’ve spelled it….but!! Given how you say to store them, I think hubby & I will pre buy them in autumn and hopefully, store them so and see how things go. You munching away on a couple has really made me yearn for one, but too late at this time of night, so look out tomorrow! Take care 😊

I adore Foxgloves Dave, and everything about them. As you pointed out the inside of them is really beautiful. I never knew until today from you that the pollen was so very high up ruling out so many Bees from being able to partake the pollen high up, amazing! I saw George McGiven on Twitter (I’ll never be able to use the initial it’s been given 😡) yesterday saying he had watched a patch of his Foxgloves for ages and didn’t see many, if any, using it!! Are you still the normal amounts of Bees going in/out as we’ve been used to for many years? Very many thanks indeed for another wonderful video 😊

OK mr Goulson...please tell me what happened.!!!!.just before Covid....I bought the press and followed your instructions to the letter....except for one thing, I had some yeast left over so threw it into the mix in the big tub. I left it a year or so and then strained and bottled it.......left the bottles a year or more......and now it is very strong. Tastes like Cider, looks like Cider, but smells more like a good Brandy?? 🤣

I just found your channel! I discovered a bumblebee nest at my home because bumblebees are going in and out of the siding. It’s exciting to know what’s inside there! I fell upon your site because you showed what bumblebee nests look like in an earlier video!!!!! Love it so so much! And I love having bumblebees in a nest!

I sowed a bunch of foxglove seeds in some pots a couple of months back and they won't seem to grow past that tiny half-a-centimeter leaf stage! i'm not sure if they'll fair any better if i spread them about in the ground, or if they're not going to progress this season, it's very odd. Will keep at it! thanks for another cool video.

I think it is appalling how 'they' keep focussing on how poisonous and dangerous Foxgloves and other plants are. Yes, I know they are, but I doubt there are many who walk around eating them.

I had a bunch of foxgloves planted (the common one) but only one survived, way to wet I guess

Love this - they are glorious in our garden too this year, and looks like we have the potential for a good display next year too 🤞. And we have some spectacularly large bees rattling into the flowers, the flowers drop off after a particularly zealous visit!

Hi Dave, thanks for yet another great video. Fox gloves are one of my favourite plants and the bumbles in my garden just love them.

No luck growing the non-native (to me) Digitalis purpurea, aka common foxglove, but great success growing Penstemon digitalis, aka foxglove beard tongue, which is native to Missouri. Smaller flower, white and not as showy but it still attracts bumblebees, mason bees, and hummingbirds. Both plants are in Plantaginaceae, so cross-Atlantic cousins I suppose. Which begs the question, is everyone else here in the UK? Am I the only American? Just curious.