No bees in my Baltimore garden
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Looking for Plants that Attract Bees for my Bee Garden
Comments (8)Gardengal, When my huge Crysanthemum 'Gold and Silver' bloomed late last September, it was covered in bees for a month. I hadn't seen a honey bee ALL SUMMER, yet this plant had hundreds of bees crawling all over the blooms. You could smell the blooms and hear the bees from five feet away. It's spread like crazy this year, with runners in all directions. I'm going to check to see if the runners are rooted. Send me a message if you're interested and can't find them locally....See MoreI want to attract bees to my veggie garden
Comments (16)We're beginner beekeepers, so of course we've been very attuned to what plants in our landscape seem to attract our bees...to our surprise, my little bed of cleome (spider flower) is our bees' most popular hanging-out place in our yard, next to the white clover in the lawn. The bees hit the cleome early in the morning and then late in the evening, and the plants are literally bent over with honeybees. Nothing in our bee books or networking with beekeepers would have led us to believe that bees have a special fondness for this flower. Other bee favorites we've noticed, although nothing like the cleome: Our bean plants usually have bees buzzing around them; also catmint and lavender. On the other hand, we've been told that sedum are a good nectar source for bees, but we really don't see them in our sedum bed. Ditto borage -- an oft-noted "bee plant," but we just don't notice the bees on our borage. (This may be because they visit at a different time of day than the early morning/early evening when we're gardening.)...See MoreA bee in my light garden!?
Comments (1)It is better to have a bee in your light garden than a bee in your bonnet. I like your picture...See MoreNo bees in my Baltimore garden
Comments (9)Of course, since honey bees are not native to the New World, native New World flowers are not necessarily the best for attracting them. Those flowers may be better for attracting native pollinators in particular. If you want honey bees in your garden, you want to plant a lot of single, not double flowering flowers that are sequentially in flower from earliest spring until latest frost so that the honey bees will have a constant food source in your garden. If you only have nectar and pollen sources in bloom in bursts, the bees will not be constant in your garden and may not find your garden during the time you have food resources available. They'll be busy where they've been finding food on a more long term basis. You will also want to have a water source like a small open pond so they can get a regular drink. Finally, where are you expecting the honey bees to be coming from? Is there a hive or habitat for a hive near by? Bees only fly so far for food. If there are no hives for them to store honey and raise brood in within a mile or so, you can have the best garden in the world for pollen and nectar and you still won't see any honey bees....See MoreWildflowergma
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