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

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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    The sage is very popular as well today - just a bog standard variety grown from sprigs of supermarket sage
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I haven’t even got any buds on my sage yet,  chives are flowering well, they love those. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited June 2021
    My new Blue Note salvia is flowering and disappointingly nothing at all seems interested in it....  Bumble bees at the front are going nuts for Salvia Royal Bumble, and linaria, which has just started flowering. They are mourning the globe alliums going over.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I lost my big white agastache in the  winter, or maybe  it’s a short lived perennial but that was by far the best for bees, not counting the Pininata that have all finally given up and died. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    The yellow rattle in my "meadow" is covered in small bumble bees.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    Euonymus alatus. I have three of these and the hum of bees visiting the flowers is noticeable from quite a way off.
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Chives
    Alliums
    Borage
    Azalea
    Lavender

  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    The nepeta is smothered too 🐝 




  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    Bowles mauve wallflower 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @bullfinch Bee expert George Pilkington is convinced that Mo's Balls is the best all round bee plant to have in the garden.
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