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

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  • Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
    Bowles mauve or the french lavender.

    Got buddlejas still to flower though.
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Salvias, scabious, foxgloves, geum avens and honeysuckle.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Last years root veg or brassicas. Treat sprouts as a biennual flower and you'll be amazed at the amount of bees they attract. Swedes, winter radish and parsnips did very well for flowers this spring after being buried under snow for so long we gave up on harvesting any.

    I've also had an aeonium that has been flowering since the end of April and is still going and there hasn't been one day when it hasn't had several bees on it all day. Shame it will die when it's done :/
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Jules41Jules41 Posts: 178
    Lavenders - always covered in a mass of bees every year 
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Early flowers aquilegia, then the hawthorne and then the roses and poppies
  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806
    Another vote for coteneaster. (So much for the theory that it's got to have flat, open flowers!).
    Also lavender and all the herbs: sage, thyme, lovage, oregano, and coriander that has gone to seed. 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    pansyface said:
    Cotoneaster horizontalis.
    Cotoneaster too.


  • BurtsnestBurtsnest Posts: 174
    edited June 2018
    White clover and St John's wort. The whole bush sounds like it's vibrating. 
  • ChrisWMChrisWM Posts: 214
    English lavender in the back, and anything that flowers in our front rock garden.  This one is the current favourite out front. 




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  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    Salvia,but they're looking at the English Lavender,not quite in flower yet.
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