Planting for Bees

Planting for Bees

Planting for Bees

Providing nourishment for the busy little super-pollinators but nurturing and cultivating an environment that supports biodiversity and sustainability

Bees use scent to find flowers from afar and choose sweetly scented nectar-rich plants.

It is beneficial to plant a variety of flowers in large groups of similar flowers, if possible, rather than one or two here and there.

Herbs & Crops:

Lavender (English or Stoechas), lucerne, borage, sage, rosemary, beans and peas, mints, basil, granadilla, citrus, thyme, sunflowers, and dill.

Annuals: 

Pansies and violas, Cape Forget-me-not, Campanula, Nemesia, Portulaca, Lobularia, Poppies, Calendula, Cosmos, Primula, Hollyhock, and Nasturtiums

Perennials:

Agapanthus, Blue Sage, Ostoespermum, Scabiosa, Barleria, Strelitzia, Arums, Watsinia, Echinacea, Bulbinella, Kniphofia, and Vygies

Shrubs:

Felicia, Hypoestes, Buddleia, Plectranthus, Hebe, Buchu, Euryops, Erica, Hibiscus, Polygala, Protea, Crassula, Aloe, Leonotus, and Bottlebrush

Trees:

Forest Elder, Lavender tree, Wild Pear, Wild Laburnum, Tree Fuchsia, Gwarrie, Coral Tree, Bush Cherry, Searsia spp., and Vachelli spp., Crap apple, and all fruit trees