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

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  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    I bought an ajuga reptans on impulse as it was having a lot of bee visitors while I was browsing the nursery. Of course I get home and everything is ignoring it!
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    My holly Silver Queen has been absolutely buzzing with bees and other insects for the last week or two.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    Ceonathus getting a lot of attention from the smaller bees at the moment.  Bumbles head for the azalea and rhododendrons 
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    There are some plants in my garden that's covered in bees that I thought was salvia carradonna but the plugs I sent off for has different leaves so I don't know what they are. But I'd love to know 
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    Old Arthritic marc said:
    There are some plants in my garden that's covered in bees that I thought was salvia carradonna but the plugs I sent off for has different leaves so I don't know what they are. But I'd love to know 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    These at the moment, but it changes, as one lot of flowers die another take their place,
    self sown Cerinthe and Aquilegia are a fav now.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    What is the lovely flower behind the aqualegia?
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Aquilegia and lavender are the favourites at the moment. But when the eucryphia tree (lots of white flowers in summer) comes into bloom they go absolutely nuts for that.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Fire said:
    What is the lovely flower behind the aqualegia?
    London Pride. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Fuchsias flowering already!  , it will be a couple of months before mine flower. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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