I moved my bugle to a new spot this morning (I'm still pondering where it's going to live) and it quickly got found by a small solitary bee.
Last weekend I picked up a Veronica prostrata nestor as an impulse buy. I also noticed that had a tiny bee going mad on the flowers. Purchase justified!
For me it has to be geranium phaeum, lavender, but especially cotoneaster - the latter so much so, that the bees sit on the stems and try desperately to get into the flowers even before they have opened!
Which cotoneaster? I used to have C. horizontalis, which was good in summer, but not spring. Might depend on the cultivar? I also had C. lacteus, which I don't remember attracting bees at all.
Cotoneaster is a brilliant plant for bees, and wildlife all round. Had one covering the air raid shelter in my last house and it was swarming with them when in flower.
Currently the bees are going mad for my Rosemary 'Majorca Pink'. To be fair there's not much else in flower at the moment.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
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Last weekend I picked up a Veronica prostrata nestor as an impulse buy. I also noticed that had a tiny bee going mad on the flowers. Purchase justified!
Currently the bees are going mad for my Rosemary 'Majorca Pink'. To be fair there's not much else in flower at the moment.