Just moved into a new house and have inherited a lovely garden. Im no gardener so im glad that its just trees and shrubs (that I now have to learn about so I can look after them), no flowerbeds. We have to get the garden re-turfed as the grass is a bit of a mess but plan to leave the rest as it is.
EXCEPT, there is a big tree/bush that the bees are absolutely loving. Any time I look at it I can count about 10 bees at least. Its got small droopy down yellow flowers that are a bit bell-like with the stigma/filaments coming out of the ends but I don't know what its called. Its probably between 6-7ft tall and obviously very well established.
The thing is I don't much like bees, im a bit scared of them and because we have 20 month old DS I worry about him getting stung. I know we are supposed to encourage bees as much as we can and that they don't sting unless provoked etc etc, but would it be really bad if we chopped the tree down and replaced with something that bees don't like as much?