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Bee plants in your garden

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  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    Big Blue Sky said:
    Basil African Blue 
    Many thanks to Big Blue Sky for your help  ;)
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I'd forgotten about my Jacob's Ladder. The bees loved it in early summer when it was in full bloom.  


  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    Bees do seem to like the blue/purple flowers don't they. I'm sure I read that they can see purple flowers better than any other colour.
  • sarinkasarinka Posts: 270

    Makes sense! 
  • HippophaeHippophae Posts: 154
    The honeybees are going wild for this Hylotelephium (sedum) that has recently started flowering. Not sure what species/cultivar it is. The flowers are quite a pale pink colour and the leaves while green have a slight reddish blush to them. The stems are purple. I counted eight honeybees on the whole plant at one time earlier today. 





  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    That sedum looks a bit like Autumn Joy, which is a popular variety.
  • shazza 3shazza 3 Posts: 197
    Lavender Hidcote, a white and pink buddleia, geraniums, veronica, lilac, cowslips, apple trees, cherry tree
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    edited September 2020
    The plants I have really noticed bees on this year are (roughly in flowering order) Apple trees, currant bushes, strawberries, white clover (made it hard to pick strawberries!) borage, mallow (blue form) and now they are on pot marigolds and thistles. but they went for other plants over the marigolds when they had more choice. I notice that the mallow only attracted bumblebees, but there were at least 4 different species on it at one time.
  • The Bird LadyThe Bird Lady Posts: 225
    Echium - 14 plus feet in height - the bees love them!  Actually this picture was taken early in the year, it did expand somewhat and actually turned out to be the best we've ever had!
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    A bit of Phacelia.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-0t-V0odfA

    I grow a half bed ( 7 foot ) of it every year on the allotment and can spend minutes just watching many types of bees feeding.
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
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