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Bee Bee Seeds of hope planted at pleasure gardens festival
Released on 27 May 2009
South Norfolk Council has joined the BBC in planting seeds of hope for our endangered bees among families and children expected to flock to a garden festival on Saturday.
Kids will be buzzing when they pick up their free wildflower seeds as they enter the stunning grounds of one of Norfolk's most famous Elizabethan mansions - Rainthorpe Hall, Tasburgh, just south of Norwich.
The seeds are part of the BBC's Be Good To Bees breathing places campaign which is helping the fight to turn back the catastrophic decline in the bee population.
It comes as the nation is once again buzzing over the new series of Springwatch.
The seeds are just one of the attractions at Saturday's festival for families which features everything from sailing paper and wooden boats down the River Tas, which flows through the estate, to feeding a giant venus flytrap, as it tours the grounds with a human fly.
The mixed garden variety seeds are free on entry to the event on Saturday from 12 noon to 4pm. Pay on the day.
Britain has finally woken up to the sharp decline in bees.
The British Bee Keepers Association which first raised the alarm recently used the Chelsea Flower Show to renew the call to save our bees by urging gardeners to dig deep and plant more flowers.
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