For The Benefit Of Bees

The summer nectar bar at Norton Conyers is well and truly open now, we have so many bees in the garden that they are for or five deep on every flower. At least they are on the blooms that take their fancy and it is interesting to note which flowers those are, they are not always the biggest and most colourful. Top of the pops at the moment are the eryingiums / sea hollies, but the sunflowers, veronicastrums and salvias are close runners up. Many of the dahlias fail to impress with their intricate tightly packed petals. So the easy guide to which flowers to grow for the benefit of bees is to choose the simple ones, you can't go wrong with a daisy!

"How doth the little busy bee improve each shinning hour, and gather honey all the day from every opening flower"
Isaac Watts

This little chap has so much pollen on him he is almost entirely yellow!