Plant lambs' ears and keep wool carder bees happy

Kate Bradbury’s wildlife garden is less than a year old, but her lambs’ ears plants are already attracting new pollinators to the plot Wool carder bees are nesting in my garden. I’m proud and happy and slightly obsessed – I sneak out during the day and sit by my patch of lambs’ ears (Stachys byzantina): the bees seem particularly fond of both its nectar and pollen, as well as using it as nesting material. I watch aggressive males fight each other in hilarious territ