Flowers for Bees

I wanted to note which flowers, including weed / 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'm noting flowers even if I don't have a pic but aim to capture views of the bees on each of the flowers.

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

September

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.

Creeping Bellflower (Campanula), June

Ceanothus, June

Centaurea montana June

I saw a bee on one yesterday (26-6-2018) but by the time I'd gotten my camera it was gone.

Cerinthe

Comfrey, June

Cornflower July

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

Delphinium June

visible pollen baskets on the bee(s) on the delphinium

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

Greater Celandine June

Greater Knapweed July

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

Pelargonium June

saw one on this this week but by the time I got my camera it was gone

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

Privet June

Ragwort June

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

I snapped as quick as I could but by the time I did the bee had lifted off from the flowers. Is that the hint of an orange pollen basket I see on their left side?

Verbena bonariensis July

Veronica June

I saw a bee on a veronica yesterday (27-6-2018) but didn't have my camera. I'll keep an eye out.

Wild Basil July