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
Hollyhocks
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
Snapdragon
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
