Top 10 Bee-Friendly Flowers for Your Garden

Restful, serene and floral, lavender is one of the most beloved scents we use today. You can find its lovely scent in candles, soaps and luxury perfumes, but lavender is also a beautiful bee-friendly flower that will make any garden burst with colour. Purple is a bee’s favourite shade and the lavender has a lot of it adorning its flowers. As long as you offer it plenty of sun and a dried soil, lavender will thrive and attract bees with its rich nectar.

One of the plants bees love the most is rosemary, and if you’ve ever added it to one of your recipes, you’ll know why. The scent that gives the best aroma to your dinner will also attract bees and other pollinators to the garden. Not only does the scent attract your local pollinators, but its flared blue-purple flowers attract them too, making rosemary a great option for your bee-friendly collection. It’s a wonderful flower that loves to feed both humans and bees, plus you can also grow it in a pot on a window sill.

Another early-bloomer, the crocus bee-friendly flowers are a much-needed source of food for these little insects during winter. Find them a bright spot where they can take plenty of sunlight and crocuses will grow to be one of the stars in your garden, while providing tasty meals to the bees around your home that have just come back from hibernation.

Salvia is another one of those flowers that bees just love to make a queue for. The bee-friendly plant represents wisdom and a long life, so its no wonder that it's a favourite for our bees. These flowers come in many varieties, some are reliable perennials, others are annual appearances, but all of them are beautiful and easy to grow. Don’t be surprised if both bees and butterflies invite themselves into your garden as soon as these plants show their flowers.

If you’re a fan of daisies, you’ll love these flowers. With a similar look and enough nectar to attract bees and other fellow pollinators, cosmos flowers make a great addition to a bee-friendly garden. They’re also very easy to grow and don’t need much attention in order to thrive.