That said many flowers in other colours will still attract bees so don t pull them up.
Bee friendly garden plants.
It s a cool season perennial legume that grows well almost anywhere.
Excellent summer bloomers include clover calendula borage and the appropriately named poached egg plant.
Provide bee friendly habitat choose plants that attract bees bees love native wildflowers flowering herbs berries and many flowering fruits and vegetables.
Suitable plants include willows hawthorn the blossom of fruit trees such as apples cherries and plums and plants such as crocus and aubretia.
Bees feast on bee balm cosmos echinacea snapdragons foxglove and hosta in the summer.
White clover is also known as dutch clover white trefoil and creeping trifolium.
Long tongued bees love to stop and visit white clover to collect pollen or suck out the nectar.
Plants that bloom early in the year offer food for bees emerging from hibernation.
Lavender agastache erysimum bowles mauve scabious comfrey foxgloves cardoon echinops autumn.
Pretty parasols grows 36 inches tall and 20 inches wide.
Crocus hyacinth borage calendula and wild lilac provide enticing spring blooms in a bee garden.
However even a small bee friendly garden will help the bees as they will visit your garden along with those of your neighbours.
Another top notch bee friendly plant for your garden is white clover.
Select plants that provide nesting materials for the bees too.
Grow tubular shaped flowers for bees.
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.
25 plants for bees in your garden 1 lavender lavendula 2 rhododendron 3 white clover trifolium repens.
Its flowers come in a variety of reds pinks and purples that bloom in mid summer to early fall.
Bee friendly plants for every season summer.
Best plants for bees purple flowers bees can see the colour purple more clearly than any other colour and some of the best bee plants such as lavender alliums buddleja and catmint have purple flowers.
Bee balm monarda commonly and conveniently called bee balm is a striking perennial related to the mint family.