25 plants for bees in your garden 1 lavender lavendula 2 rhododendron 3 white clover trifolium repens.
Bee friendly garden plants.
Bee balm monarda commonly and conveniently called bee balm is a striking perennial related to the mint family.
Its flowers come in a variety of reds pinks and purples that bloom in mid summer to early fall.
Lavender agastache erysimum bowles mauve scabious comfrey foxgloves cardoon echinops autumn.
Provide bee friendly habitat choose plants that attract bees bees love native wildflowers flowering herbs berries and many flowering fruits and vegetables.
However even a small bee friendly garden will help the bees as they will visit your garden along with those of your neighbours.
Long tongued bees love to stop and visit white clover to collect pollen or suck out the nectar.
Grow tubular shaped flowers for bees.
It s a cool season perennial legume that grows well almost anywhere.
Select plants that provide nesting materials for the bees too.
White clover is also known as dutch clover white trefoil and creeping trifolium.
Bees feast on bee balm cosmos echinacea snapdragons foxglove and hosta in the summer.
Bee friendly plants for every season summer.
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.
For fall zinnias sedum asters witch hazel and goldenrod are late bloomers that will tempt foragers.
Pretty parasols grows 36 inches tall and 20 inches wide.
Another top notch bee friendly plant for your garden is white clover.
Plants that bloom early in the year offer food for bees emerging from hibernation.
That said many flowers in other colours will still attract bees so don t pull them up.
Sedums single flowered dahlias verbena bonariensis japanese anemones autumn asters actaea simplex.
Crocus hyacinth borage calendula and wild lilac provide enticing spring blooms in a bee garden.
This row of abelia shrubs provides substantial long lasting nectar and pollen resources during summer at the australian native bee research centre.