at the moment, fuchsia - I saw an enormous bumble bee on one of my fuchsias today - and the Japanese Anemones are a magnet for all kinds of insects, including bees.
The trial autumn-flowering wall flowers have been brilliant - flowered all through the mild London winter and are now covered in bees. I will keep them in and see what happens this autumn.
My excess of Centaurea montana has already been in bloom for a few weeks and is thing attracting stuff at the moment (that and the ivy which is getting lots of attention from honey bees and wasps). If last year is any guide, it'll keep flowering until Aug/Sept and hit six months.
I'm really surprised to see bees enjoying Chaenomeles 'Geisha Girl' as the flowers are nearly double and it's an unusual colour, not the shade bees usually go for..
A gardener's work is never at an end - (John Evelyn 1620-1706)
I've got around eight bees landing and searching around a raised bed which we only filled with topsoil this morning dreading to look tomorrow got loads to put in aswell.
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Next year going to grow tithonia, there's a new one that grows to 3ft