Best plants for bees and pollinating insects in all seasons
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- A colourful guide to wildlife friendly flowers at different times of the year, with beautiful blooms to brighten your garden from winter through spring and summer right into autumn.
With bees and insect populations reported to be in decline it is important that we do what we can to provide habitat and food sources for beneficial insects such as bees and hover flies.
In this video Roger shows us some plants that he has seen / photographed insects feeding from, with a focus on providing flowers at different times of the year and across all seasons.
Winter ...
Crocus and aconoites (bulbs)
Winter flowering heathers (Erica Carnea)
Spring ...
Muscari - grape hyacinths
Skimmia Rubella
Aquilegia - Grannies Bonnet
Blue bells
Hardy Geraniums
Iris
Poppies (papaver) species
Cornflowers
Foxgloves
Summer ...
Thyme
Cistus (Rock Rose)
Cordyline
Echium
Allium
Monbretia
Nepeta (cat mint)
Clematis
Cardoon (Cyanura or Globe artichoke)
Achillia
Lavender
Scabious
Leacanthemum (Chrysanthemum)
Echinops
Verbena Bonariensis
Kniphofia (Red hot poker)
Cosmos
Dahlia
Eryngium
Helenium
Rudbeckia
Sunflowers
Buddleia
Summer and into Autumn ...
Sedum Autumn Joy
Caryopteris
Japanese anemones
Asters (Michaelmas daisies)
Echinacaea
Hebe
Common wild ivy (hedera)
Hi!
I have a long evergreen bush. (fruit trees, berries,) 20 years ago it was full off bees, butterflies, etc. It is a suburb, next to uncultivated large fields, with wild flowers and weeds. No chemically treated.
But every year less and less butterfly/bug visible. Last year i have barely seen butterflies, or bug (exept stinkbug and mosquito)
I think the main reason is the city spraying mosquitos from airplane.
I just made a bughotel, but it is "too little, too late".
Hi Thanks so much for your comments and also for your concerns for the wildlife. I hope that we can all make a difference by taking more care of our planet, well done for what you are already doing ...lets keep on trying! Thanks again
Great Video. Spanish Blue Bells are better for bees as they have much more Pollen and more flowers per plant. My Honey Bees prefer the Spanish anyways. Got loads of videos of them absolutely humming and taking tons of pollen back to the Hives. I have patches of Pure English Blue Bells aswell that flower at a slightly different time and deeper in the woodland. I also have some crosses from the years when they flowered at the same time. So three different kinds that flower over such a long time.
Hi, happy new year, thanks for your comment, interesting to hear about all your different blue bells - some folks here in the UK do not like spanish bluebells to be grown here as they are taking over / cross pollinating with the British variety and there is concern that we may lose the original 'wild' British blue bell over time - are you in the UK or somewhere else?
@@rogthegardener1 A very Happy and Prosperous new year to you as well! I subbed to your channel! You have some awesome videos!
Hyacinthoides Non Scripta known in the Uk as English Blue Bell is found all over Northern and Western Europe as well and is doing well. Its only in areas of poor management where Spanish Blue Bells become a problem! Companies miss selling the Spanish as English aswell are also a problem. Especially when people buy plants to naturalize in their woodlands We bought some From Thompson and Morgan a while ago which where clearly Spanish Blue Bells but they where selling them as English Blue Bells. There are actually over 10 Types and I love them all!
I am going to be increasing my English Blue Bells next year with divisions and plant an Orchard with them.
@@1stBumbleBeeMaster That's great - keep up the good work!
@@1stBumbleBeeMaster It is very interesting to me that you bought English bluebells that turned out to be Spanish as I have had the same experience in the past though I cannot remember which firm supplied them. Of course you do not know until they grow (poetic but annoying!) I wonder if they were mislabelled somewhere along the line? Anyway I haven't the heart to take them out and only hope any bees are not Brexiteers haha
Excellent vid. Thanks
Nuruz Zaman Thanks for commenting, we have to look after our insect friends, enjoy your garden!
@@rogthegardener1 Hopefully getting my hive setup in the garden soon too.
Very very nice ....
Thanks enjoy your garden!
Good list! Some plants flower earlier here in the Netherlands
@@Jorg05111980 yes bro. I m going to do like this flowers garden for my bees. Our country masterd is the main honey nd pollen source
@@warrior...c....w... Ok, make sure you get Calamintha Nepeta as well!!
I'm definitely hitting it hard with sunflowers this year for my bees!
Yes - me too!
Try basil!
I've grown cuttings for Hebe, Hydrangea, Buddleia, Spirea & Lavender. Most of these are on my channel header and I made a new Hebe video which shows these cuttings on their journey into big shrubs/plants.
Great work James! - I will check out your channel!
Those are appealing to most generalist species.
Thanks for your feedback
Just an update 4 years later - there seems to be an increasing interest in how to attract more insects to our gardens form folks all over the world - which is great. So far this year the Crocus, Rhododendron and Camellia have been swamped by pollen hungry bees!
how can i harvest in my house plz?
Hi, thanks for your comment - sorry I just want to check what you are asking ... do you mean 'what plants can you grow in your house that might help bees'?
@@rogthegardener1 yes plz
@@muhammadayubkhan4673 Hi sorry for the delay in getting back to you - there does not seem to be much information about attracting to bees inside the house .. maybe because bees could get trapped inside and are better off outside where they can easily go in search of more plants and return to their nest ... sorry I have not been much help to you .. please let us know if you find out any more information - thanks
Where to sell flower seed
Hi thanks for your comment, it depends where you live … here on the uk we can just visit a local garden centre or nursery to buy plants or seeds … where are you living ?
What is this music?
Thanks for your comment, Here is a link to the music - ua-cam.com/video/6NO7kAZf_IE/v-deo.html Midnight - Silent Partner
This must be for somewhere else besides where im from.
Thanks for your comment.
Whys that, are the flowering times different for you? where are you from?
@@rogthegardener1 im from ohio. Some of the plants match here but most ive never heard of
@@benca6151 Ah never been there, I am thinking you get some seriously cold winters?
@@rogthegardener1 some of them are. We usually go below 0 atleast once