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Which plant in *your* garden do bees best like?

FireFire Posts: 19,096
in Wildlife gardening
Looking at your garden this spring/summer, what is your bees' favourite flower(s)?

Is there one they go nuts for?
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Pulmonaria every time!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I guess the closest I have is borage, but I wouldn't they are vibrating with bees. But they like it.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Linaria purpurea (self sown) probably wins over all, but I don't think I've seen a better expression of frantic excitement than that of the bees on the self-sown poppies.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Nepeta (six hills giant) in ours, they go absolutely crazy for it
  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653
    Pulmonaria, foxgloves (bumbles), lupins, agastache black adder
  • MrsFoxgloveMrsFoxglove Posts: 180
    I second JellyFire  with the Nepeta and they're also loving life in amongst the white English lavender  :)
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Lupins, Nepeta, the flowers on my mature acer, Nasturtium, Salvia, honey suckle and escallonia. 

    A bit later it will be the Perovskia. 
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Heuchera 'Chocolate Ruffles'. See this video at 1:23.




  • Bright starBright star Posts: 1,153
    Liatris is the plant that is a bee magnet in my garden. The bees get so drunk on the nectar they fall asleep on it! 
    Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

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