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Best bee plants today
nutcutlet
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Nonea lutea
assorted pulmonarias, this one is P. rubra
Ribes laurifolium, I haven't got this one in the ground yet
Trachystemon orientalis
There must be bees in the photos somewhere, they were there when I pointed the camera.
In the sticks near Peterborough
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I haven't seen any bees yet this year although last weekend I noticed a few other critters...
You have some interesting plants Nut - lovely little flowers on the nonea lutea
I watched a honeybee on some crocuses on the terrace yesterday morning
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A few large bumble bees in garden where I live in Oxfordshire , started seeing them three weeks ago.
probably the queens. Might be just one or two being (pardon the puns) very beesy.
Still no bees in Dundee yet. There are a few stunned looking Small Peacock butterflies fluttering around looking for nectar.
I have bumblebees on the pulmonarias
What lovely pictures nut
The last plant, the flower heads look similar to borage.
I had two bees stuck in the greenhouse yesterday, managed to rescue them.
I've always gone for 'interesting' plants Vic.
Anything in a seed catalogue I've never heard of, if it's hardy and not a lime hater, I'll have a go.
Fishy, except for the Ribes, all those plants are Boraginaceae, a good bee family.
Trachystemon is great ground cover in deciduous shade.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I am still waiting to see a single butterfly or bee, I'm in inverness, scotland... i guess mine are still sleeping!
I've seen quite a few Bombus spp around the narcissi and noctuid moths around my alliums here in Aberdeen, so they should be up and about foraging in Inverness, UK now or soon.