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

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  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    This time of year I find that single-flowering dahlias are a big hit with the bees 
  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    My Vipers Bugloss is still hanging onto its flowers and attracting the bees, and so with some foxgloves. However the plant that has flowered most intensively and for the longest period of time, and is still attracting the bees is the African blue basil that a kind member on here once sent me a couple of years ago
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Bees are still enjoying the calendula - provided that I remember to deadhead daily.

  • Glasgowgardener777Glasgowgardener777 Posts: 41
    My bees are loving these


  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They’re loving the bean flowers at the moment. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Veronicastrum is the favourite here.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Very useful plants,  Veronicas,  mine have self seeded everywhere. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    Presently its the drifts of Hollyhocks here that they can't seem to get enough of. 
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    Bees have been all over my herbaceous clematis Cassandra for weeks now, and my caryopteris is alive with them.   :)  
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Salvia. Still.
    Calendula.
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