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

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  • office641office641 Posts: 4
    Parsley plants left to flower, the flowers are only just beginning but the bees seem to be buzzing around very impatiently.
  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556
    This year they mostly went after my ornamental kale (after bolting to flowers) and my verbena.
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  • MrsGardenMrsGarden Posts: 3,951
    My erysimum Bowles Mauve. Flowers on it EVERY day of the year. Covered in bees.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    It’s Lavender all day here. Bowles Mauve, Abelia and Aliums are popular too. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    Garden seem to be alive with bees, insects and butterflies today.  Echinops is popular 


  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    Helenium and Eupatorium also




  • The_herpetologistThe_herpetologist Posts: 481
    For a few weeks in May each year, cotoneaster. Then borage, then teasel.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Agastache rugosa (Korean mint) is the current favourite.  One appeared by chance in my veg plot so I collected and raised seeds then planted several in a flower bed this spring:

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    I sat for a long time yesterday fascinated by hundreds of bees foraging on fennel at Scotney Castle.  Seemed to be a very specific type who enjoyed it though.  Almost like hover flies but with a tiger striped bum
  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    Probably was a hover fly come to think of it
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