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

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  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Lithodora heavenly blue has been buzzing with bees since April.


    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • BluejaywayBluejayway Posts: 392
    Cotoneaster is the fave plant so far in my garden.  So many bees!  Sounds like there’s an engine running  :D
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Welsh poppies and campanula at the moment - it would be the salvias, but they're about 6 weeks behind previous years! They've only just started getting bushy, this time last year they had tons of flowers. 
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Bees of all kinds seem rather scarce so far this year.  In previous years small bumble bees have been all over the yellow rattle, but I haven't seen a single one yet this year.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    My comfrey has recently come into flower and the bees have found it..




  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    Is comfrey related to pulmonaria? The leaves seem similar, and I've had quite a few bees on that 🤔
  • Alfie_Alfie_ Posts: 456
    @Eustace yeh mine go NUTS for Pulmonaria and yeh spreads like crazy. Nectar must be great if they are willing to squeeze into those small flowers!

    Hylotelephium ‘Matrona’ is a particular sedum they literally bathe in, sometimes just face planted into it  :D. 

    Lonicera Halliana honeysuckle is another one they love. 




  • Alfie_Alfie_ Posts: 456
    edited May 2023
    Oh I forgot these bees are common at the moment. Keep flying in the house:



    Think it’s an Ashy Mining Bee though I’m no expert at all on bees?

    @LeadFarmer if you live in Herts I could give you Pulmonaria by the bucket :D. 
  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    Alfie_ said:
    @LeadFarmer if you live in Herts I could give you Pulmonaria by the bucket :D. 
    Thank you, but sadly I don't, I live in S.Yorkshire
  • Alfie_Alfie_ Posts: 456
    @LeadFarmer lovely part of the country that. I went to uni in Leeds and lived in Yorkshire for 7 years. Loved it. 
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