Flowers for Bees

I wanted to note which flowers, including weed flowers (ie wildflowers), the bees and butterflies are visiting in my garden. I've started this page mid-June 2017 so have lots of photos and varieties to add. A year later, I am still adding to it.

I have so many photos of flowers and bees, it's difficult to choose just one of each! At the moment the flowers are in alphabetical order but thinking of putting them in date order of when they flower with a view to ensure we have flowers for bees throughout the year.

Agapanthus, July

Artichoke, July

Borage, mid-June

Buddleja

My front garden right next to the pavement is at risk of passing pedestrians damaging a plant (they destroyed a Trachelospermum jasminoides) so now I have a tough buddleja which the bees love.

Campanula, June

Ceanothus, June

Cerinthe

Comfrey, June

Deadnettle, just a self-seeded weed but the bees love them.

Echium Vulgare/Viper's Bugloss and Echium Blue Bedder, June

I had a little difficulty getting close-up photos but there is a bee just entering one of the Blue Bedder flowers in the centre below.

sadly I couldn't get this in focus but there is a bee in one of the flowers, centre right below

Foxglove, May-June

Green Alkanet

I see bees on the green alkanet from as soon as they flower but I did not note dates. I finally got a photo of one beginning of June.

Globe Thistle, August

Iris Foetidissima May/June

The bees go right inside the flowers.

Knautia Macedonia, June

Lavender, June

I have some huge (for my garden) clumps of lesser knapweed

Lupin

Monkshood June

the bees go right inside the flower

Muscari (grape hyacinth), April

Nasturtium, bee going right inside

Nigella

Nepeta

Passionflower, June

Corn / Field / Red Poppies  June

Black Swan poppy (Papaver somniferum) June

these are just blooming today and immediately the bees are loving them, hope to get a better photo

Ragwort

I saw this near me in Northwest London.

I saw this red admiral butterfly on ragwort in a churchyard in West Sussex on holiday

Scabious, August

Snowberry July

Sunflower, August

Teasel July

Tomato June

having trouble getting a photo in focus but the bee was visiting the flowers