What are the best types of plants to help bees?

Question

Hey can you help me? I want to help support the bees, any good plant recommendations? It’s a big garden with lots of space for different types of plants and flowers.

William · Answer

100% it has to be lavender 
Go to any garden with a lavender plant and you'll find bees

Nathan · Answer

Wildflowers are great along with sunflowers and lavender. Good luck !

Amy · Answer

I would say good plants for this time of year are hydrangeas or duraniums

Martin · Answer

Any plant which contains sweet taste such as blue bell or similar plant. Don't go with a flower which smells sweet because all you harbour is wasps. to touch the pollen inside the plant not the outside and you will be feeding the bees and not wasps things such as honeysuckle tulips etc.

Peter · Answer

Best flowers would be lavender, mahonia, bluebells, rosemary, hawthorn, borage. Try a patch of wildflowers. Also any simple single flowers will give nectar to bees and make it easy for them to collect it, as double flowers are more difficult to get to the pollen.

Russell · Answer

Some Flowers/Shrubs for bees: 
Ruddeckia Goldsturm 
Verbena Bonariensis 
Dephinium
Lavender 
Salvia Nemerosa Caradonna 
Globe Thistle 
Corn flower 
Buddleja

Chris · Answer

Most plants attract bees but lavender is a good option and sunflowers

Rodney · Answer

Hi, you need to know not just what attracts bees but what repels them as well!

The best plants are Lavender and Foxgloves.
 
The following is what you should not plant near the above mentioned plants, as it will repulse the bees. They cannot stand the smell. Peppermint, spearmint, eucalyptus, and thyme.

Christopher · Answer

Foxgloves are very good but teasels are a lot better for bees.
Shrubs with very small flowers are highly recommended.

What are the best types of plants to help bees?

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