Bee Friendly Garden Plants

This row of abelia shrubs provides substantial long lasting nectar and pollen resources during summer at the australian native bee research centre.

Bee friendly garden plants.

Bees feast on bee balm cosmos echinacea snapdragons foxglove and hosta in the summer. Best plants for bees purple flowers 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. Provide bee friendly habitat choose plants that attract bees bees love native wildflowers flowering herbs berries and many flowering fruits and vegetables. For fall zinnias sedum asters witch hazel and goldenrod are late bloomers that will tempt foragers.

However even a small bee friendly garden will help the bees as they will visit your garden along with those of your neighbours. Another top notch bee friendly plant for your garden is white clover. 25 plants for bees in your garden 1 lavender lavendula 2 rhododendron 3 white clover trifolium repens. Lavender agastache erysimum bowles mauve scabious comfrey foxgloves cardoon echinops autumn.

Its flowers come in a variety of reds pinks and purples that bloom in mid summer to early fall. Pretty parasols grows 36 inches tall and 20 inches wide. Select plants that provide nesting materials for the bees too. White clover is also known as dutch clover white trefoil and creeping trifolium.

Plants that bloom early in the year offer food for bees emerging from hibernation. Bee friendly plants for every season summer. Excellent summer bloomers include clover calendula borage and the appropriately named poached egg plant. Crocus hyacinth borage calendula and wild lilac provide enticing spring blooms in a bee garden.

The flowers appear in different heights sometimes with several blossoms on one stalk giving this echinacea its wild appearance perfect for a bee friendly natural garden. Grow tubular shaped flowers for bees. Suitable plants include willows hawthorn the blossom of fruit trees such as apples cherries and plums and plants such as crocus and aubretia. It s a cool season perennial legume that grows well almost anywhere.

Long tongued bees love to stop and visit white clover to collect pollen or suck out the nectar.