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

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  • BlackhalloliverBlackhalloliver Posts: 33
    edited August 2019
    VirginiaJoy said:
    marjoram, fennel, drumstick alliums, verbena bonariensis, 
     -  on the edge of Dartmoor!!
    What edge i am in holne
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    BobTheGardener said:
    @Lyn Yes please!  I've just noticed your PM (I don't check often enough!) so will contact you that way. :)
    No probs Bob, not ready yet but will be soon. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
    Hebe Great Orme is very popular at the minute, especially with hoverflies, entire shrub moves!
  • alisonklsalisonkls Posts: 4
    My bees like the lavender, but they absolutely love the oregano. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited August 2019
    @Blackhalloliver ooo, Holne is stunning!

    I will give snapdragons a go next year. Toadflax is similarly beloved.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Bumbles are currently enjoying such salvia as are left and my hellebores.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The shrubby salvias are always full of bees from the time the first flowers open in early summer through until the last which can be as late as November. 
    However on dry days at this time of year there's often a fat bumble bee busy about the Clematis cirrhosa ‘Freckles’ and the Viburnum Bodnantense ‘Charles Lamont’ ... I can see them from the sitting room. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ericaroberts321P--ErMpXericaroberts321P--ErMpX Posts: 8
    The bees seem to like blue flowers. By far the most popular was Geranium  Roxanne. Covered in bees throughout the long flowering season.
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    Chives,Lavender,Cosmos,Alliums and Japanese anemones. I think Chives are favourite as the 
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  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    Some great suggestions on here.
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