Winter Flowers Bees

Bees love their abundant nectar. Hibiscus seem to still be flowering but I wonder about the amount of pollen or nectar in their flowers.

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Sage is a favourite for honey bees and native rosemary or Westringia flowers all year round and is particularly attractive to Blue Banded Bees and Teddy Bear Bees.

Winter flowers bees. Through to the holly-leafed mahonia M. Aquifolium which flowers in late winter and early spring. The flowers are great for attracting winter-active bumblebees A honeybee collecting pollen.

Bee-loving plants are better in groups. FLOWERS plant ageratum alyssum cineraria and cineraria Silver dust cleome cyclamen euryopsis forget-me-not Iceland poppy lobelia lupin marigold osteospermum pansy perennial petunia petunia phlox primula snowdrops stock sweet pea verbena wallflower winter honeysuckle and zinnia. Fan-flowers Scaevola and species in genera Hibbertia Eremophila Hemiandra and Plectranthus are also frequently visited by native bees.

Plant them in clumps with one-meter diameters if you can in layers or at least in multiple numbers to attract the most bees for your efforts. Other herbs that are loved by bees include basil borage parsley mint rocket fennel chives and oregano. Some plant species are highly reliant on native bees for their pollination owing to having poricidal anthers.

Grow in moist but well-drained soil in full sun or part shade. PINEAPPLE SAGE Salvia elegans. Pollen makes bees thirsty give them water.

Cassia or senna is an important flowering shrub for. Anthers that only release pollen when vibrated at. Winter-flowering honeysuckle Lonicera fragrantissmima is a deciduous evergreen shrub up to 2 m tall with very fragrant white flowers which open from December onwards.

Camellia is a winter flowering tree that is an important winter nectar and pollen source for bees. They flower over many weeks starting with Mahonia media types including Charity and Winter Sun in late autumn and early winter. Its OK to intersperse regular old flowers in these beds too.

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