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

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  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    The Eupatorium Joe Pye Weed is the bees current favourite in my garden..


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My Joe Pye has just started shooting through the earth. I said "Now? Really'?

    Linaria is hands down the source of the buzz right now - beating even borage. The hollyhocks are popular too.
  • Arthur1Arthur1 Posts: 542
    Interestingly, Eucomis seems to be loved by flies and wasps. I don't see a single bee on it.
  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    Fire said:
    My Joe Pye has just started shooting through the earth. I said "Now? Really'?

    Linaria is hands down the source of the buzz right now - beating even borage. The hollyhocks are popular too.
    My borage has finished now. Do you know if it comes back as a perennial? I grew mine from seed this year.
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    My dahlias seem to be the draw at present ,especially the bishops ,llandaff and York .
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @LeadFarmer Borage is an annual but if happy will self seed around. There is a dwarf borage that is a perennial.


  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    The bees appear quite possessive of the borage. They get cross if I get close to it. They also loved my various thymes last year, and the Icelandic Poppies. All alliums, verbena bornariensis, tithonia (they often seem to take naps on the flowers of these). I think the Allium Sphaerocephalon would win the prize if there were one.
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    Not bees but in the past week I've seen Hummingbird Hawkmoth in my garden on three occasions feeding on Phlox and Lavender.  Such a great one to see; don't see it every year in my garden.  I wonder if it's an influx year.  Anyone know? 
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    Redwing said:
    Not bees but in the past week I've seen Hummingbird Hawkmoth in my garden on three occasions feeding on Phlox and Lavender.  Such a great one to see; don't see it every year in my garden.  I wonder if it's an influx year.  Anyone know? 
    It maybe an influx, I've had one in the garden for the first time.

    No doubt it will be put down to global warming.
  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    Fire said:
    @LeadFarmer Borage is an annual but if happy will self seed around. There is a dwarf borage that is a perennial.


    Thanks Fire, I will look to try and save some seeds from my borage plants.
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