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

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  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556
    That would be my Pentas lanceolata 
    My red Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii (Turk's Cap) draw hummingbirds daily but not bees.  Odd the pink variety of Turk's Cap doesn't draw the hummers, but it does draw butterflies.  
      
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  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Hands down it’s the Lavender currently. A fair buzz in the Abelia and Verbena Bon too. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    My runner beans are really buzzing with bees , good sign for plenty of beans I hope 
  • AereonAereon Posts: 1
    Right now it's the buddleja. A few months ago it was our heather and chives :)
  • SeahorseFriendSeahorseFriend Posts: 73
    I let my privet hedge flower, and have no regrets - it's alive with bees, and butterflies like it too.
  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    edited July 2021
    Currently its the African Blue Basil. A kind member on here sent me a cutting which I've since grown quite a few plants from. It flowers freely, in fact when taking a cutting and placing it in a jar of water, flowers appear on it in just a few days...




  • AaronBilAaronBil Posts: 100
    Linaria Purpurea, always a couple bees about 
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Currently Verbena B, oregano, lavender and the various nepeta and scabious. Basically all of the purple flowers. Oh and sea thrift and echinops. 


  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    After the rain over the last 24 hours the bees are all over the Salvia Blue By You and Spirea Shirobana. 

    Maybe they taste better wet! 🐝🌧
  • 2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
    Lantana and the kumquat is re-flowering, much to the pleasure of the bees. Popular too are some small-flowering, mixed, pink zinnias I grew from seed that have been in flower around two months so far and still have buds. 
    Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
    Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
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