Bee loud

Cotoneaster is not my favourite shrub - with its herringbone structure  it never stops expanding and its flowers are nothing much at all - but for bees it seems like heaven on earth. You can hear the bush humming before you reach it. If you want to attract bees grow Cotoneaster. Birds love its red berries late into the autumn too.

Yesterday was World Bee Day and someone called Brian Bilston tweeted this poem.

THE LAST BEE

After the last ee
had uzzed its last uzz,

the irds and the utterflies
did what they could.

ut soon the fields lay are,
few flowers were left,

nature was roken,
and the planet ereft.