Do you have a spare piece of garden and you don’t know what to do with it? Or does a piece of land needs some better soil? Grow Phacelia!
Phacelia tanacetifolia, a perfect bee plant
This wonderful flower does many things for your garden. It helps to better the soil. We used a bit of garden to put phacelia in before we put grass in it. For bees, this is a wonderful plant. You might not be able to see it in this photo, but it is full of bees. When I walk by, the zooming is real loud. And the smell is just lovely! Every week I can make a bouquet in a vase of these flowers and when the summer ends, I mix the flowers with the soil and sow grass so the children can play there again.
[...] We decided to move the slide towards the trampoline, play object number one for the children, and the swing. It would be more grouped together. Secondly we extended the porch, added a roof we had kept from our old chicken-run. Thirdly we added another little wooden playhouse that was hidden in the phacelia-field. [...]