Topic: which is best for bees??

[giantseye]

Hello there,

I would like to plant some wild flowers which especially attract bees and ladybirds. :D :D

Can anybody suggest either one or two species to plant.

My soil is neutral, and I have a long thin strip to plant them in.

Any help on this matter is appreciated ;D ;D ;D

Thanks

[teresa]

I know they are ment to like comphrey and blue flowers thats bees dont know about ladybirds just see them on the roses and anything with greenfly.
not much help sorry

[Robert_Brenchley]

Borage is a good one for bees, or poached egg plant. Dunno about ladybirds, but umbellifer flowers attract hoverflies, another predator of aphids, as the nectar is easy to get at for short-tongued insects.

[maz]

Ive got a little Geum Royale in the pond and theres always bees on that.

[dibberxxx]

i have a budliea and i find the bees love it

[Deleted]

lavendar - bees love it

[bunnycat]

Lavender is a really good one - I've got several different ones, and the bees flock to them all ;D I've had some beautiful huge bumble bees in the garden for the last couple of weeks, paying a lot of attention to my French Lavender, which has just begun to open it's flowers :)
They adore the flowers of Bergamot as well.

[wardy]

clover is a wildflower and bees love them.  You can grow clover as a green manure on the lotty too

[Robert_Brenchley]

They love white clover, and go for the second flowering of red after it's been cut. the first flowering has nectar at the bottom of a tube which is too long for the honeybee; it's pollinated by bumblebees which have longer tongues.

[giantseye]

Thanks for all your help :D :D :D

Lavender and clover it is ;D ;D

Thanks again for all replies and suggestions

It's appreciated :D ;) ;D

[Multiveg]

My little person said today: "Bee on the lavender" "Bees ok"

[Andy H]

My walking stick kale flowered and had millions of flowers and loads of bees.