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100s of Bees to See in 2022 and 2023 calendars sold
100s of year-round bee-friendly flowers planted across London including:
Rosemary (Salvia rosemarinus) Wallflowers (Erysimum ‘Apricot Delight’) – pictured middle left with a Buff-tailed bumblebee arriving minutes after it had been planted – Lambs’ Ear (Stachys byzantina); Salvia ‘hot lips’; Hedge germanda (Teucrium x lucidrys); Sedum (Hylotelephium spectabile)
50 bee hotels made in 3 workshops for pupils and community gardening groups
30 bee hotels maintained
15 different species of bees spotted on roof top bee gardens in London including:
- Early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum)
- Hairy-footed flower bee (Anthiphora plumipes)
- Davies’ plasterer bee (Davies’ colletes)
- Leafcutter bee (Megachile centuncularis)
- Furrow bee (Lasioglossum)
10 bee talks given – reaching more than 500 people (in person and online): including
- CityWire’s Impact Retreat 2022 – where I explained to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investors why the companies they invest in need to have a pollinator strategy to safeguard bee populations for food security and to mitigate climate change
- On UN World Bee Day, I spoke online to more than 100 staff at Bouygues construction company about why bees and biodiversity are good for business
- More than 150 KPMG staff learned about the nature-positive steps they can take to help bees and other pollinators and why they are so important for our eco-system
- Local Hackney residents learned about bees and how to spot them at Dalston Eastern Curve garden
- Alison kicked off the Wild World of Bees 2022 Master Academy online class run by Canadian-based ABC Bees (middle right photo)
7 new bee-friendly terraces created at:
- Take 2 in Fitzrovia (pictured above top right, planting an Amelanchier lamarckii)
- Price Waterhouse Coopers in the Embankment and More London
5 articles written: including
- Why beehives aren’t the answer in cities to boost bees and biodiversity
- Return of the natives – how a project has brought back some of the rarest bee species to the Kent and Sussex coast
- The importance of hedges for pollinators
- Top trees for bees.
5 roof-top bee gardens maintained at:
- Lush London HQ in Soho (bottom right photo)
- Bread Street and Carter Lane offices managed by Savills in the City
- Adam & Eve Advertising agency in Paddington
- Amazon office, near the Barbican
5 bee observation boxes installed at:
- Adam & Eve (painted yellow, with bee hotels, pictured middle bottom row)
- Weil law firm
- Belgrave House, managed by BNP Paris Real Estate
- Amazon office
5 mature, large bee-friendly shrubs destroyed by the drought
- Rosemary bushes and Salvia ‘hot lips’ on Bread Street rooftop in the City (top left photos before and after the summer drought, without an irrigation system)
4 bee tours of Regent’s Park (
3 new clients for Urban Bees including:
- Take 2
- PWC
1 roof-top bee garden tripled in size from 5 to 15 planters on:
- Adam & Eve rooftop in Paddington, west London (new planters pictured bottom left)
1 corner of a housing estate improved for biodiversity in:
- St George Chelsea Creek housing development in south west London (thistles pictured middle)
1 All-Party Parliamentary Group for Bees and Pollinators Advisory Board joined, which advises MPs