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Buddleias love to be pruned all the way back to the hard wood on the stems. They flower on this years growth so you can take it back to two or three feet.
Buddleias love to be pruned all the way back to the hard wood on the stems. They flower on this years growth so you can take it back to two or three feet, so you can tailor them to suit most spaces. As long as you cut to just above the last pairs of buds, it’ll just thrive.
The Wisteria.
They bloody love it.
St. John's Wort bush in our garden, always covered in bees, I love watching them and seeing how many different kinds there are.
Oh and lavender, has anyone mentioned that yet?
This weekend it's been Russian Sage and the Hostas. To be fair, not much else is flowering
Veronica/speedwell is very popular in my own garden today.
Catoniasta. By A MILE
This. Nothing else comes even close in our garden.... It's literally covered in bees.
Ceanothus beats everything into a cocked hat.
Ours was massive with a million blue flowers, and a bee on each one.
Plenty on the agapanthus and petunias today but the winner was the raspberry canes. Shame the bees were outnumbered by the raspberry beetles 🙁
We've got a Cabbage Palm in the garden. When it flowers the bees go bonkers for it - you hear the tree humming from quite a few yards away because there's so many bees on it. Smells lovely too (it hasothing to do with a cabbage smell - no idea where the name came from).
Otherwise for 'quick hit now' plants, the lavender.
No idea what it is but I've got a big blue bush that's permanently teaming with bees
Budleia? That's what I was going to offer, always recall them being FULL of bees in summer (I think it's called a butterfly bush though!).
This is the most bee friendly plant in our garden atm. It’s a self seeded teasel, a bi-annual. There are a few in the wild patch but this is on the path, covered in about 9 bees and hover flies.
We returned from a holiday at the weekend and a Sea Holly was absolutely covered in butterflies, wasps, different types of bees and different types of flies
Geranium Rozanne, Erigeron and Penstemon have been popular this week.
Went to the Book Cafe in Belper thus morning and all the lavender bushes around their outside seating was full of big fat happy bees