We all know bees are important, right? I just wish they'd sit still for their close up!
Did you know that bees like blue flowers best? And flowers that appear blue to the bees. Of course. They like shrubs including Buddleia davidii (butterfly bush), lilacs, and pyracantha and flowering plants including calendas, larkspur, poppies, wallflowers, daisies, anemones, daylilies, lavender, lilies, lupine, roses, rosemary, thyme, yarrow, black-eyed Susans, coneflowers, coreopsis, cosmos, heliopsis, salvias, and verbenas, asters, centranthus, nepeta (catmint), Salvia officinalis (sage), Erigeron (fleabane), helenium, scabiosa, and sedums. My yard is full of sedums, and I can attest to the attraction--the bees cover them in late summer. My reluctant model is in my apple tree among the spring blossoms. I am waiting for my Mason bee house to arrive, too!
