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

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    It's the turn of the Deutzia scabra to be at the top of my garden's 'bee list' and will now be covered in bees for the next two or three weeks:

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Currently, Nepeta Junior Walker, and (a pleasant surprise!) Sanguisorba Pink Tanna - I had four plants which  had struggled in a dry, windy location for a couple of years but now that I have replanted them in moist soil with plenty of sun they are happily flowering and attracting the bees away from their usual targets!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    For me it's heuchera, stachys, Royal Bumble salvia and Rozanne
  • MopaniMopani Posts: 25
    Now that the nectaroscordum siculum has finished, the bees are enjoying the shrub honeysuckle ‘Strawberries and Cream’, nepeta Purrsian Blue, and all the geraniums but particularly Tiny Monster, Dreamland and Johnson’s Blue.
  • susanarobinsonsusanarobinson Posts: 4
    Foxgloves and some red thistles I have. Later on they will go into the hollyhocks.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    It’s the Phormium flower spikes this week here. Heucheras and Geraniums having some visitors too. 
    My Rozannes aren’t out yet, nor my Strawberries and Cream Honeysuckle.
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Heuchera is very popular this week.  I've got it on the decking in a pot outside the kitchen window and it's almost constantly covered in bees.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Echium russicum is the main draw at the moment, Geranium 'Rozanne' is quite popular. Euphorbia segueriana nicaeensis is attracting small parasitic wasps (hopefully the type whose larvae kill aphids).
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • ChivetalkingChivetalking Posts: 2,296
    They are loving the Escallonia Donard Seedling, it is very popular with Bumble Bees. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096



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