Dakota Gardener: A bee lawn in progress

Last year, I seeded a small patch of bee lawn to see how it would work in my yard. It is an out-of-the-way area tucked behind a shed and spruce tree that I don't like to mow. I wanted to try it out before I committed to converting more areas of the backyard into a bee lawn.

A bee lawn combines flowering plants for pollinators with low maintenance turfgrass. Not just any flowering plants can be use...