Below is a list of highly recommended 'Bee Friendly Garden' plants, flowers and shrubs.These are not only highly attractive to honey bees and other pollinating insects, but they will also bring lots of colour and vibrancy to your garden, allotment or window box.

 

Spring

Native plant-field maple, native plant-bugle, aubretia, gold dust alyssum, elephant ear, native plant – box, native plant – hawthorn, wallflower, perennial wallflower, wood spurge, Mrs Robbs bonnet, Mediterannean spurge, Cypress spurge, a spurge, many coloured spurge, dusky cranesbill, hebe, hybrid Lenten rose, native plant – holly, spotted dead nettle, honesty, a crab apple, Japanese crab apple, Armenian grape hyacinth, star of Bethlehem, native plant – primrose, native plant – blackthorn, narrow-leaved lungwort, a lungwort, pear, blackcurrant, red/white currant, flowering currant and Skimmia Japonica.

 

Summer

Giant hyssop, Agastache foeniculum, Agastache rugosa, Ornamental onion, star of Persia onion, giant onion, chives, Angelica, snap dragon, Columbine, Astrantia Major, borage, butterfly bush, orange ball tree, cat mint, clustered bell flower, Canterbury bells, giant knap weed, perennial cornflower, larkspur, cosmer hawthorn, delphinium single flowered cultivars, sweet William, Foxglove, teasel, coneflower, a globe thistle, vipers bugloss, fleabane, a sea holly, Californian poppy, a hardy fuchia, meadow cranesbill, hardy geranium, gypsophila, hebe cultivars, Hydrangea cultivars, Inula Hookeri, Inula Magnifica, Common Jasmin, perennial sweetpea, bay tree, English lavender, French lavender, annual mallow, a shrubby mallow, Shasta daisy (open centred flower forms), Ox-I Daisy, Poached egg plant, bergamot, forget-me-not, catmint, tabacco, love-in-a-mist, evening primrose, oriental poppy, field poppy, Penstemon cultivars, Perovskia atriplicifolia, Jerusalem sage, Turkish sage, Rudbeckia, fulgida, Rudbeckia hirta, Rudbeckia laciniata, Salvia, ice plant, orpine, golden rod, mountain ash/rowan, Japanese spirea, lambs ears, Mullein, guilder rose and Weigela Florida.