One thing I noticed, they kept mentioning "nectar rich plants" sure that is fine for adult insects, BUT they have not yet mentioned (not sure if they will in the last episode) the actual foodplants of the insects, without those, the adults would not be there to feed on the flowers. These are not always the nice flowers, these are often the "weeds" like nettles, docks, grounsels, ivy-leaved toadflax, sorrel etc... not the plants they keep mentioning. If you want the adults around, you have to have these around too.
They still emphasized non native flowers to use (some anyway), a few are fine, but what about the more important native wild flowers which are insects have fed on long before the other plants were brought in from abroad?
I agree DMS, i was very impressed with this one. ok so no meadows, which i love seeing kindred spirits susie, but i was hugely impressed by the reaction of the Harrogate bunch and the RHS. Alas what didn't impress me was the bed itself but it was made up for afterwards by the other work they did. good luck to them i say. i'm looking forward to the next one.
I agree too, but was there a native flower among them? I can't really remember. Without more native flowers + the other not so pretty plants our native insects need to survive, its not the same for me.
I am part of wildplant recording in Ireland, and there is more people saying now that not to use wild flower mix seeds you can buy in shops or on-line as these often contain British wild flowers, not true native Irish genetic plants, I agree that these wildflower mixes can taint the genetics of local populations of the same plant if it exists in the area as a true wild plant, not a seeded plant from a potential seed not from Ireland.