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

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  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    The chives are starting to go over now,but there have been so many bees on them,I had to be careful when deadheading. Theyve moved on to the Caradonna Salvias and lavenders now.
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  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    edited June 2022
    @franbower - that is absolutely sensational! 
    With the weigela finished, it's the salvias that seem to be flavour of the month now, and - for bumblebees only - bear's breeches.  But the humble geranium is also something of a hit.

  • greatnorthernexoticgreatnorthernexotic Posts: 119
    I sowed some wildflower seeds under the hammock. I've now lost the hammock to the bees, who are loving the fiddleneck in particular. 
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  • GearóidGearóid Posts: 198
    Currently they're all over the cerinthe (honeywort). I sowed a lot this year and the bees can't get enough. 
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    Lavender and salvia just now. And roses Perennial Blue and Gertrude Jekyll. Is it the scent that pulls them in?




  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    @carletonexotic - that's lovely!  Is that love-in-a-mist?  Mine are nowhere near flowering yet.  When did you sow them?
  • greatnorthernexoticgreatnorthernexotic Posts: 119
    borgadr said:
    @carletonexotic - that's lovely!  Is that love-in-a-mist?  Mine are nowhere near flowering yet.  When did you sow them?
    The photo is from a week or so ago, love-in-a-mist aka nigella are now coming through, as are borage, and various types of poppies!
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  • bamarlumyomyarTLxbvXTkbamarlumyomyarTLxbvXTk Posts: 1
    edited June 2022
    In early spring, bees were swarming over flowers on Nelly Stevens hollies in my yard. Now, there are more bees on my salvia plants than agastache blue fortunes, coneflowers, verbena bonariensis, nepeta, Tuscan Sun heliopsis, cinderella milkweeds or butterfly weeds. Very small bees seem to like achillea flowers as well.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    We have a lot of clover in our front lawn whose flowers are like a magnet to the bees. Hence mowing here is very restricted.
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    In the wild meadow bit of my back garden, the yellow rattle is always covered in very small bumble bees.  They also love phacelia...  the big noisy bumbles are going for the foxgloves and Iceland poppies.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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