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🌼 Designing a Bee-Friendly Garden: Layouts and Styles

Switch between a mixed border, cottage garden, wild meadow, balcony containers and a vertical green wall to see how each layout changes flower density, diversity and bee foraging activity.

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A 3D sandbox that rebuilds five real bee-garden layout styles — mixed border, cottage garden, wild meadow, balcony containers and a vertical green wall — so you can compare how each design changes flower density, colour diversity and bee foraging activity.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each layout style is rebuilt in full 3D with its own structure — fence and rows for a border, meandering path for a cottage garden, scattered meadow for a wild planting, pots and railings for a balcony, and a pocketed living wall for vertical gardening — while foraging bees respond live to how full and how varied the planting is.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a garden style, then adjust flower density, bloom season and bee count. Watch the forage score and how many bees are actively foraging change as the planting gets sparser or denser, and toggle forage links to see which bloom each bee is heading for.

💡 Did You Know?

A vertical green wall or a handful of well-planted balcony pots can rival a small ground border in bloom density per square metre — layout and layering matter just as much as the total area you have to plant.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D sandbox that rebuilds five real garden layout styles — mixed border, cottage garden, wild meadow, balcony containers and a vertical green wall — letting you adjust flower density, bloom season and bee count to see how each design changes foraging activity.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install