Plant These to Attract Bees

CapeCoddess 3/14/2014, 10:18 am

http://www.hannahrosengren.etsy.com

**gwennifer** 3/14/2014, 11:17 am

Thanks CapeCoddess. This came across my Facebook a few days ago and I couldn't figure out how to grab it to post here.

I suppose with the herbs (sage, cilantro), you'd have to let them bolt to be any good for the bees. Easy enough with cilantro that's for sure. Haven't grown sage before.

**camprn** 3/14/2014, 11:19 am

Hopefully there are pollinators in your neighborhood.

**gwennifer** 3/14/2014, 1:26 pm

Haha, I typed my reply on my phone before. Didn't realize I'd changed font sizes. Sorry for yelling everyone! Shocked

recoush 3/14/2014, 5:22 pm

super love it thier are many other plants that attract bees,
what is nice about this is all stuff we need Very Happy

check out the Pollinator site below for a guide Below

http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm

this is one of the best site they will have a zip code guide with recommendation and it is Free
Covers every thing you need to know maybe even way more then you may want to Know Smile

myself i'm inthe eastern broadleaf forest

**sanderson** 3/14/2014, 5:38 pm

Wow! Thanks for the link.

Marc Iverson 3/15/2014, 12:27 am

Love that poster chart, capecoddess!

Just want to add in that I saw catmint there -- but our bees and pollinating flies loved our apple mint and peppermint too. So they probably love all mints ... and mints have tons of flowers when they flower, kind of like foxgloves -- many on a stalk, and every mint plant has lots of stalks.

**sanderson** 3/15/2014, 2:02 am

Marc, I found mint seeds but had to buy a spearmint plant. I just love the smell when brushed against. Wouldn't you know it, my cat loves Borage!

Marc Iverson 3/15/2014, 2:09 am

Spearmint is very popular. I only know it from the gum, I think.

The only ones I've grown are peppermint and apple mint. So far peppermint is my favorite. Even just picking up the containers to water them, or being close by when the wind blows, I get a jolt of their smell, and it's just so clean and pure and fantastic!

Hmm, borage is another thing I gotta get to ... so many chores and classes and things lately that I'm hardly planting a thing.

FamilyGardening 3/16/2014, 2:46 pm

thanks for the link.....I printed out the picture of all the plants/herbs for the bees....it will make a great teaching tool for our kids Very Happy

we can take it with us when they go to pick out some flowers to plant in their garden spots!

happy gardening
rose

Goosegirl 3/16/2014, 4:31 pm

recoush wrote:super love it thier are many other plants that attract bees,
what is nice about this is all stuff we need

check out the Pollinator site below for a guide Below

http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm

this is one of the best site they will have a zip code guide with recommendation and it is Free
Covers every thing you need to know maybe even way more then you may want to Know

myself i'm inthe eastern broadleaf forest

LOVE this link! I am in the Prairie Parkland (Temperate). Saved the file and am printing it out now!

GG

LilGreenNewbie 3/17/2014, 2:40 pm

recoush wrote:super love it thier are many other plants that attract bees,
what is nice about this is all stuff we need

check out the Pollinator site below for a guide Below

http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm

this is one of the best site they will have a zip code guide with recommendation and it is Free
Covers every thing you need to know maybe even way more then you may want to Know

myself i'm inthe eastern broadleaf forest

This is really cool. Thank you for sharing recoush! I am Pacific lowland mixed forest province.

**sanderson** 5/15/2015, 12:34 pm

milt48 2/3/2016, 3:54 pm

I love using Borage as it is a great companion plant, attracts pollinators, and it tastes great. The blue flowers it has is also a plus.

**Scorpio Rising** 2/3/2016, 10:08 pm

Pretty, is it annual?

**sanderson** 2/4/2016, 2:41 am

SR, I think it is an annual everywhere. However, it seeds so you can almost consider it like a perennial as you may get lots of little seedlings the following spring. I've got a lot coming up in the front yard flower bed. I won't plant it in the beds anymore. Takes up a lot of space.

milt48 2/5/2016, 8:28 am

It reseeds itself to the point that I have never had to reseed my bird/bee/butterfly garden, which is now ten years old.

I won't put it in my flower gardens either.

**sanderson** 2/5/2016, 3:49 pm

Milt, I just pulled 5 volunteers of borage out of one of the veggie beds. I dread how many will be sprouting like "weeds" where i don't want them. Shocked

milt48 2/6/2016, 3:12 pm

Be glad it is Broage and not mint. Very Happy

**sanderson** 2/6/2016, 5:35 pm

Mint is in a pot! Here are borage volunteers in the front flower bed. A little thinning needed, you think? Wink

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