SOME PERFECT PERENNIALS FOR HONEY BEES
Listed below are just some of the many garden perennials that are useful to honey bees and other types of bee. Source - RHS Gardener’s Encyclopaedia.
PLANT NAME
spring
HELLEBORE Christmas Rose, all varieties
PULMONARIA lungwort
BERGENIA elephant’s ears
PETASITES JAPONICUS butterbur
early summer
IRIS most varieties
DORONICUM leopard’s bane
AUBRETIA
PÆONIES open varieties
POLYGONUM BISTORTA SUPERBUM
AQUILEGIA grannies bonnets
CENTAUREA MONTANA knapweed
POLEMONIUM Jacob’s Ladder
SYMPHYTUM comfrey
ASPHODELINE LUTEM king’s spear
summer
GYPSOPHYLIA all varieties
SALVIA most varieties
VERBASCUM
LAVETERA, MALVA AND SIDALCEAS
HARDY GERANIUM cranesbill
PAPAVER most
ERYNGIUM sea holly
KNIPHOFIA red hot poker
ASTRANTIA MAJOR masterwort
CAMPANULAS bell flowers
COREOPSIS open varieties
ECHINACEA coneflower
THALICTRUM AQUILEGIIFOLIUM
CENTRANTHUS RUBER red valerian
summer to autumn
ASTILBE
NEPETA cat mint
GAILLARDIA blanket flower
VERBENA BONARIENSIS
ECHINOPS globe thistle
HELIANTHUS sneezeweed
ASTER Michaelmas daisy
SEDUM ice plant
RUDBECKIA open varieties
Thank you to those who came along to the Winding Wheel last February to the illustrated lecture. It’s a bit different to doing the local WI.
Margaret Edge