I LOVE Dollar Tree - we FINALLY got one in my little Cow Town!
I like to grow the HUGE sunflowers like, ‘Kong’ or ‘Eartwalker’ and leave them up through seed stage for winter food for the birds.
Beau has ‘gifted’ me a field that is east of the house that he will ‘nuke’ so I can plant sunflowers and other flowers in there for the pollinators. He had been using it as a food plot for turkey & pheasants, but no luck so far.
Now that I want flowers in there, I’m sure the turkeys will be all over it, LOL!
I watched a documentary several years ago about mason bees, and it said they are better pollinators than honey bees because o the way they splat land on the lowers. Hubby used to keep bees had 5 hives at one time and an electric separator even. Mites were a problem though he had to medicate them every spring I they made it. The mason bee thing looks interesting though.