Peter Dowdall: How to make life sweet for bees in your garden

Choose pollen-rich flowers to provide much-needed food for bumblebees and other insects and add colour to your garden

One-third of our 99 bee species are at risk of extinction. Picture: iStock

It's that fabulous time of the year when we begin to see growth emerge from the energy beneath the surface once more. The seemingly delicate and tender snowdrops and crocuses have battled through frozen ground to open-up in glorious, colourful bloom.

Soon, that annual switch will go off in each one of us which sends us longing for the outdoors once more, a longing which is exacerbated this year for obvious reasons of lockdown.