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

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• karen paul Posts: 230

  August 2018

  Thankyou Mary but disappointingly it doesn't look that colour in real life, lol. I think my phone has enhanced the colour a bit because it is more purple than that; still a beautiful plant though

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• Mary370 Posts: 2,003

  August 2018

  @karen paul ...........I was thinking mine were very anemic looking compared to it 

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• 1634 Racine Posts: 568

  August 2018

  Bees were swarming over the Persicaria today.  Shame I can't upload a video because the noise was amazing.  Think they knew the rain was coming (yes it's raining here in E Sussex!).
  
  
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  August 2018

  I was sitting by a Six Hills nepeta today and it was shaking with bees. So good to see.
  

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• Jacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039

  August 2018

  Currently they are enjoying my sunflowers and dwarf butterfly bush , I must say more than the butterflies which seem to be ignoring it! Sleeping inside my dahlias though

  Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.

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• Joyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933

  August 2018

  Cat Mint seems to be flavour of the month, also the runner beans and chives.

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• ForTheBees Posts: 168

  August 2018

  I wasn't sure as it wasn't get any attention in the nursery and the RHS don't list it in their 'plants for pollinators' but the Obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana) I brought home has a constant stream of bumblebees visiting it.

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• RoddersUK Posts: 537

  August 2018

  Alliums and echinnops this year they've gone mad over 

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• LG_ Posts: 4,360

  August 2018

  My Bishop of Auckland dahlias have a bee or other pollinator on every bloom at all times, it seems. 

  'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'

  - Cicero

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• Mark56 Posts: 1,653

  August 2018

  Mine too and Llandaff/Oxford/Canterbury 

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