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

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's a great and useful list. Thanks to everyone who posted.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The list includes (not exhaustive)

    pulmonaria
    echiums
    linaria
    neptia
    poppies
    agastache
    lavender
    liatris
    st John's wort
    white/red clover
    wallflowers
    foxgloves
    cerinthe (honey plant)
    comfrey
    phacelia
    cranesbill
    ivy
    salvia




  • Good old lavender for our little guys! They can’t get enough! They’re also enjoying the buddlia. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They’re loving my Penstemon at the moment
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Depends on the season but at the mo it's the clover in the grass which is definitely not a lawn in the accepted sense and they also like the flowers on my strawberry mint and hostas.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ZeroZero1ZeroZero1 Posts: 577
    Cotoneaster Horizontalis! I was at Great Dixter, near the door of the house there was a specimin of this small shrub and it was covered with bees. It had so many bees that it was making a sound like a lawnmower. I was stunned as there was plenty of other choices for the bees nearby. I planted one near my summer house, but alas, though it did have some visitations, no repeat performance yet. Bees are intelligent and have some very strange habits. 
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    That's a good list of plants to have in the garden
  • BurtsnestBurtsnest Posts: 174
    Currently loving the Gaillardia.
  • RubyLeafRubyLeaf Posts: 260
    Californian poppies. Always has bees on them!
  • CFCCFC Posts: 71
    Bumble bees adore the globehead alliums in my garden, among other things
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