Gardening

elleng

(136,865 posts) Tue Feb 17, 2015, 12:23 PM Feb 2015

Homeowners planting flowers in their yards thinking they're saving bees

are basically planting poison plants.

Many of the plants you buy at Home Depot and Lowe's may be treated with bee-killing neonictinoids. Because there's no clear labeling, many good-intentioned gardeners end up poisoning the very bees they are trying to help! http://ow.ly/xakJk (*Home Depot has indicated it is working on safer alternatives, but Lowe's has not yet responded).

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Homeowners planting flowers in their yards thinking they're saving bees (Original Post) elleng Feb 2015 OP

This is an issue we have been trying very hard to inform people about The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2015 #1

Thank you for this. CrispyQ Feb 2015 #2

OK, elleng Feb 2015 #3

Are plants you grow yourself from seed safe? dolphinsandtuna Feb 2015 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. This is an issue we have been trying very hard to inform people about

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 12:30 PM

Feb 2015

as part of the Master Gardener program in my area. And it's been fairly successful. Most of the local garden centers now either no longer sell neonicotinoid-treated plants at all or attach labels to the plants they grow themselves that they can guarantee neonics weren't used. But the big-box stores can't guarantee how their plants were grown so we advise people to get their plants from places that can.