PLANTS ATTRACTIVE TO BEES
ANNUALS
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Ageratum
Alyssum
Calendula
Candytuft
Aster
Borage
Canary Creeper
Cornflower
Clarkia
Convolvulus
Coreopsis
Cosmos
Dimorphotheca
Eschscholzia
French Marigold
Gaillardia
Godetia
Gypsophila
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Lavatera
Limnanthes (poached egg plant)
Linum
Matthiola (night scented stock)
Mignonette
Moricandia
Nasturtium
Nigella
Night Phlox
Phacelia
Poppy
Saponaria
Scabious
Statice
Sunflower (avoid pollen free varieties)
Verbena
Viscaria
Zinnia.
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PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS. Many garden perennials and biennials are good bee plants. The following are some of those that are always attractive to bees.
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Achillea
Alyssum
Aguilegia
Arabis
Aubrietia
Campanula
Canterbury Bells
Chives
Digitalis (foxglove)
Erigeron
Geranium
Geum
Helenium
Hollyhock (single flowered varieties)
Iberis
Lavender
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Lythrum
Marjoram
Michaelmas Daisy
Myosotis
Penstemon
Poppy (oriental)
Primrose
Rosemary
Rudbeckia
Salvia jurisicii
Scabious
Sedum
Siberian Wallflower
Sidalcea
Thyme
Verbena bonariensis
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PLANTS ATTRACTIVE TO BUTTERFLIES
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Achillea
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Dianthus
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Larkspur
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Scabious
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Agastache
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Dimorphotheca
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Lavender
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Schizanthus
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Blackberry
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Dracocephalum
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Limnanthes
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Sweet William
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Broom
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Erigeron
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Lupin
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Teasel
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Buddleia
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Geranium
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Michaelmas Daisy
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Thymus
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Candytuft
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Ipomoea
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Matthiola
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Tropaeolum
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Cornflower
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Hollyhock
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Mesembryanthemum
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Convolvulus
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Honesty
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Primrose
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Our wildlife range of seed contains a wide range of plants that will attract bees, birds and butterflies into your garden as will all fruit trees and soft fruit plants.
The following are available as plants and are good for attracting pollinating insects.
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Achillea
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Helenium
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Agastache
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Hesperis
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Anemone
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Hollyhock (single flowered\)
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Angelica
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Lavendula
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Antirhinum
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Leucanthemum
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Arabis
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Matthiola (Stock)
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Astrantia
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Mentha (garden mint)
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Aubretia
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Myosotis (Forget Me Not
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Calendula
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Nicotiana
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Callistephus
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Nigella (Love in a Mist)
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Centaurea
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Poppy (oriental)
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Cosmos
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Penstemon
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Dahlia (single flowered varieties)
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Rosmary
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Dianthus
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Rudbeckia
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Digitalis ( Foxglove)
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Scabious
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Echinacea
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Sedum
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Eryngium
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Verbena
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Eschscholzia
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Veronica
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Gaillardia
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Zinnia
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