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

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited May 2022
    In our garden they are enjoying sage and chive flowers. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
    In ours it's sage at the moment but it was the crab/eating apples a couple of weeks ago.  Our neighbours have honeybees in their chimney that we expect to swarm soon: they did for last three years so we are always full of bees.  We also get mason bees in the old mortar on the north side of the house and the big buzzy ones that tunnel: I always feel guilty when I wake them up when weeding.
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Cotoneaster

    bees go mad for it
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The foxgloves are doing well for bees. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    @LeadFarmer I bought a Linaria Canon Went last year which is around 60cm high.
    As luck would have it, I actually have some Canon Went seedlings growing in my greenhouse, they have been slow to grow though
  • @LeadFarmer The first one that I had bought was glorious last year, but being in the second year now, it’s indeed slow growing. I had collected seeds from that plant and sow 6 pots in Autumn. They all survived in the greenhouse. 2 of them are quite high and start flowering. The other 4 are coming too. They were smaller than the 2 taller one. Summary: It seems to be plant that needs to start from scratch every year.  I will sow them again this year for next year. Thats why I bought this new one to have the seeds. If you want, I can send you seeds in Autumn from the new one. Just drop me your postal address as private note. 

    I my garden.

  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    @LeadFarmer The first one that I had bought was glorious last year, but being in the second year now, it’s indeed slow growing. I had collected seeds from that plant and sow 6 pots in Autumn. They all survived in the greenhouse. 2 of them are quite high and start flowering. The other 4 are coming too. They were smaller than the 2 taller one. Summary: It seems to be plant that needs to start from scratch every year.  I will sow them again this year for next year. Thats why I bought this new one to have the seeds. If you want, I can send you seeds in Autumn from the new one. Just drop me your postal address as private note. 
    Thank you very much, sending you a private message :smile:
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I've planted white and pink linaria over the past five years. They have self seeded and this year are coming up purple, which is a shame. The cultivars can revert.
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    Yes I've found this too, @Fire. I've bought white ones and two nice bicoloured ones but they've been short-lived and their seedlings are purple.
    Canon Went, the pink one, stays around and I do find pink seedlings from time to time.
    I'd love a good white one that seeds true.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2022
    It's pretty common for cultivars' seed revert, as I understand it.
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