Leach Talks 2025: A Deep Dive Into Pollination

The Bees’ Needs: What Bees Require Throughout the Year

How should one go about creating a bee-friendly garden? With at least 100 different species of bees present in Portland gardens, do we need to know exactly what each type needs before we can effectively create habitat for them? It turns out to be much simpler than that.
This talk will cover the fundamentals of the different types of bees, their life cycles, and how to ensure that your garden provides year-round habitat to support their needs. While many pollinator garden designs focus primarily on the flowers that bees and other pollinators use for food, bees cannot successfully reproduce unless they have safe places to nest and for their young to develop.
Learn strategies you can use to create a garden that gives bees everything they need to thrive.

You may also like the following events from Leach Botanical Garden:

• Next Tuesday, 23rd September, 06:00 pm, After Hours Yoga in Happy Valley
• Next Sunday, 28th September, 10:00 am, Honeybee Hiker Harvest Party in Happy Valley
• Next month, 4th October, 11:00 am, Returning Fire to the Landscape Workshop - SOLD OUT in Happy Valley