Bee Friendly Garden Plants

Wildlife friendly garden plants for bees and butterflies plants for butterflies.

Bee friendly garden plants.

Lavender plants produce a tremendous amount of nectar and they are a huge hit with pollinating insects. Best plants for bees purple flowers. Bee friendly plants for every season summer. Native bees include ground nesting carpenter mason and sweat bees.

I recommend you bag yourself some. They flower over many weeks starting with mahonia media types including charity and winter sun in late autumn and early winter. Pesticides herbicides and fungicides. Long tongued bees love to stop and visit white clover to collect pollen or suck out the nectar.

Through to the holly leafed mahonia m. Clematis cirrhosa is one of the best. Mahonias are great bee plants. Erysimum bowles s mauve is a lovely perennial wallflower that flowers for months on end a feast for the eyes and a feast for pollinators especially in the hungry days of late winter and early spring.

In addition to being one the most bee friendly plant options lavender also smells heavenly and can even be added to certain food and beverage recipes. Offer both pollen and nectar. This year 2020 it s impossible to buy as a plant and only seeds are available for next year. It s hardy scented and provides bee friendly flowers throughout the coldest months of the year.

It s a cool season perennial legume that grows well almost anywhere. Instead grow plants that. White clover is also known as dutch clover white trefoil and creeping trifolium. Double blossomed flowers which produce little or no pollen and nectar.

Lavender agastache erysimum bowles mauve scabious comfrey foxgloves cardoon echinops autumn. Fennel is rich in nectar and pollen and will attract a variety of solitary bees such as mining bees and yellow faced bees as well as bumblebees and honey bees. Bloom for a long time. Its slender foliage is an unusual misty lilac green and long spikes of purple flowers just keep coming.

This plant is unusual not so commonly grown but another bee magnet. 25 plants for bees in your garden 1 lavender lavendula 2 rhododendron 3 white clover trifolium repens. Another top notch bee friendly plant for your garden is white clover. That said many flowers in other colours will still attract bees so don t pull them up.

Bees can see the colour purple more clearly than any other colour and some of the best bee plants such as lavender alliums buddleja and catmint have purple flowers. Aquifolium which flowers in late winter and early spring.