Gardens are more powerful when they are connected
Membership is free. Registered members appear as a pin on the World Bee Garden map, can log what they plant and what visits it, and receive seasonal guidance tailored to their region and hardiness zone.
Members can organise informal gatherings built around a seed swap, a plant cutting exchange, or simply an afternoon comparing what is thriving locally. A gathering can be two neighbours on a stoop or a school fete with a dedicated table, the format scales to the host.
The community boards let members post what worked, what a particular pest turned out to be, and which supplier had honest, untreated native seed. Local knowledge, built up over many seasons, is often more useful than generic advice.
Simple counts, such as timing the first bumblebee sighting of spring or tallying visitors to a single flowering shrub for ten minutes, feed into real research when submitted through recognised citizen science programmes. The community hub links to active regional projects members can contribute to.