Category: Plants
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Orange Ball Buddleia
Buddleia globosa is a magnet for butterflies, bees and all pollinators that rely on nectar to fuel their activity.
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Flowering Currant
(Ribes sanguineum) It’s not just perennials and spring flowering bulbs that are great bee plants, garden shrubs play an important role too. You need to look at the plant as a whole, especially when it is an established specimen. Flowering currants are a great bee plant. Take a close look at each cluster of rich…
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Early Bee Plants
What’s in flower for emerging bees in your garden? This is a critical time in bee world, late winter flowers are a vital food source Take a look around your garden? Are your crocuses flattened after the storms? Or have you still got drifts of snowdrops in flower? February and March are a tricky time…
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Signs of Spring
The garden is starting to stir. The light is growing, the buds are swelling and the plants are sprouting into growth
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Perennial Borage
(Trachystemon orientalis) Keep your garden buzzing with the soothing sound of bees Don’t be put off by the botanical name of this plant. It is also known as perennial, or oriental borage and that’s a very fair description of this plant. It has clusters of soft mauve and white flowers that look very much like…