Bumble bees have been making a .... bee line .... for my Geranium phaeum plants, for the last month or so. So there's another important early plant.
There's a Cotoneaster (horizontalis?) at the side of the house, absolutely alive with bees and insects as the blossom opens. It's buzzing (literally), just like ivy flowers will be toward the end of the season (an important late nectar source).
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I'm not especially needing colour (because I don't have much clue what to do with it), I was just hoping to provide for some pollinators which will in turn hopefully boost my fruit harvest At this rate the fruit will have finished flowering before I get any companion flowers, although that is no reason not to continue and help the pollinators out, and I'm learning as I go!
We don't seem to have had many warm days here in W central Scotland.
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There's a Cotoneaster (horizontalis?) at the side of the house, absolutely alive with bees and insects as the blossom opens. It's buzzing (literally), just like ivy flowers will be toward the end of the season (an important late nectar source).
....and my grannies bonnets - aqualegia
How do so many of you have so many flowers already?
All the bee friendly seeds I got are still seedlings, the only flowers in my garden are:
Elderberry,
Strawberry,
Daisy,
Dandelion,
and in the next couple of days Rhododendron
(some other 'weeds' may have got to flower by now if I hadn't pulled them up).
Is it just a question of latitude or am I really terrible with flowers?
Boater - you could always go to a garden centre and get some plants that are in flower for some immediate colour
Must enjoy my clay soil.
What, buy ready to use plants? I might have to!
I'm not especially needing colour (because I don't have much clue what to do with it), I was just hoping to provide for some pollinators which will in turn hopefully boost my fruit harvest
At this rate the fruit will have finished flowering before I get any companion flowers, although that is no reason not to continue and help the pollinators out, and I'm learning as I go!
We don't seem to have had many warm days here in W central Scotland.
beezzz