Across the island of Ireland, pollinators are in decline. Experts agree that they are in trouble due to a lack of food. We need them to pollinate our crops and wild plants, but our landscape doesn't provide the abundance and diversity of flowering plants they need to survive throughout their life cycle.
To have a healthy balanced diet, they need to be able to feed on pollen and nectar from a range of flowers from early spring to autumn. Flowers rich in pollen and nectar are known as 'pollinator-friendly'.
It is important to always prioritise increasing native plants (trees, shrubs, wildflowers) across the landscape to provide food for pollinators. These are the plants our pollinators have evolved alongside, and so are perfectly adapted to give them what they need.
