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 only just started this page mid-June 2017 so have lots of photos and varieties to add. When I see the bees this summer I hope to take photos of any flowers I don't a pic of with a bee.

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

Globe Thistle, August

Knautia Macedonia, June

Lavender, June

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

Lupin

Muscari (grape hyacinth), April

Nasturtium, bee going right inside

Nigella

Nepeta

Passionflower, June

Ragwort

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

Scabious, August

Snowberry

Sunflower, August

Teasel