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Feed bees; grow Lavender!

• hanniabu 6y ago
  I believe they also like clover lawns, and gardens... really anything besides the sterile grass and concrete structures that have been marketed to be idolized.
• angst_ridden 6y ago
  Our (non-native) fennel plants seem to be a significant attractor of bees and other pollinators. They also serves as a host plant for Anise Swallowtail butterflies. The bees also really like the citrus (oranges, lemons, citron, grapefruit), cuphea, milkweed, buddleia, lavender, and lantana.
  • hinkley 6y ago
    On the fennel, or any umbel flower for that matter, you should also be seeing adult ladybugs and lacewings (both eat aphids during part of their lifecycle) as well as hoverflies and predatory wasps.
    • angst_ridden 6y ago
      Yup, we see all of those. As well as the occasional assassin bug.
• hinkley 6y ago
  Lavendar is great, but umbels hit a broad variety of insects, especially predatory species. Yarrow, fennel, Queen Anne's Lace, hemlock (do not grow this please), and many others. If you are on the west coast, Ceanothus is even more popular among bees of all kinds than is lavender (also bigger, and with better life expectancy). Just don't plant it along a walkway, or people will be brushing past the 'bee bush'.