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bee attractant for your garden
From time to time the question is asked: "How to attract bees to the
garden?" On a recent trip through some drought-ravaged towns I was amazed to see the amount of bee activity on one particular type of lavender flower. Wherever I saw this lavender, whether growing in parched street beds or well-tended home gardens, the flower heads were always enveloped in a cloud of bustling honey bees. It's an Italian lavender with flower heads that have the appearance of a smallish purple-coloured She-Oak cone (if such existed!) but topped with an impressive three-bladed purple helicopter rotor! I have seen this lavender labelled "Avonview" but doubt that anyone in Italy would be likely know it by that name. :-) Honey produced from lavender flowers would have to be delicious, wouldn't it? -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
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bee attractant for your garden
I would have thought that any lavender plant would be attractive to
bees. I certainly dont have any problems attracting them in Melbourne. Is it that different with that particular lavender plant? John Savage wrote: From time to time the question is asked: "How to attract bees to the garden?" On a recent trip through some drought-ravaged towns I was amazed to see the amount of bee activity on one particular type of lavender flower. Wherever I saw this lavender, whether growing in parched street beds or well-tended home gardens, the flower heads were always enveloped in a cloud of bustling honey bees. It's an Italian lavender with flower heads that have the appearance of a smallish purple-coloured She-Oak cone (if such existed!) but topped with an impressive three-bladed purple helicopter rotor! I have seen this lavender labelled "Avonview" but doubt that anyone in Italy would be likely know it by that name. :-) Honey produced from lavender flowers would have to be delicious, wouldn't it? -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
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bee attractant for your garden
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John Savage wrote: From time to time the question is asked: "How to attract bees to the garden?" On a recent trip through some drought-ravaged towns I was amazed to see the amount of bee activity on one particular type of lavender flower. Wherever I saw this lavender, whether growing in parched street beds or well-tended home gardens, the flower heads were always enveloped in a cloud of bustling honey bees. I've heard that bees like blue flowers, so things like borage and buddleias are good, along with rosemary and lavenders of course. But the most bees I've seen per square cm were on some thyme flowers at Mount Tomah Botanical Gardens -- you couldn't actually see the thyme! -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ |
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bee attractant for your garden
Chookie wrote:
I've heard that bees like blue flowers, so things like borage Bees love borage. |
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bee attractant for your garden
Chookie writes:
I've heard that bees like blue flowers, so things like borage and buddleias are good, along with rosemary and lavenders of course. Buddleias?? Are you serious? I can't say I've ever seen a bee on a buddleia. Only butterflies. Possibly the flowers are too deep for the bee to dip its tongue in? I shall investigate more closely! But the most bees I've seen per square cm were on some thyme flowers at Mount Tomah Botanical Gardens -- you couldn't actually see the thyme! That would make an interesting-tasting honey. My award for "best bee attractant" would go to a plant that combines a long flowering period (up to 6 months with the lavender I mentioned, I would estimate), with a large number of flowers per sq metre of garden bed. -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
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On Nov 10, 7:24 am, Jonno wrote:
I would have thought that any lavender plant would be attractive to bees. I certainly dont have any problems attracting them in Melbourne. Is it that different with that particular lavender plant? John Savage wrote: From time to time the question is asked: "How to attract bees to the garden?" On a recent trip through some drought-ravaged towns I was amazed to see the amount of bee activity on one particular type of lavender flower. Wherever I saw this lavender, whether growing in parched street beds or well-tended home gardens, the flower heads were always enveloped in a cloud of bustling honey bees. It's an Italian lavender with flower heads that have the appearance of a smallish purple-coloured She-Oak cone (if such existed!) but topped with an impressive three-bladed purple helicopter rotor! I have seen this lavender labelled "Avonview" but doubt that anyone in Italy would be likely know it by that name. :-) Honey produced from lavender flowers would have to be delicious, wouldn't it? -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I grew English, French and Italian lavender at my last house. All attracted bees but I can't say I noticed any preference for a particular type. |
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bee attractant for your garden
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John Savage wrote: Chookie writes: I've heard that bees like blue flowers, so things like borage and buddleias are good, along with rosemary and lavenders of course. Buddleias?? Are you serious? I can't say I've ever seen a bee on a buddleia. Only butterflies. Possibly the flowers are too deep for the bee to dip its tongue in? I shall investigate more closely! Sorry, I have no idea as it's been years since I had one. I was just thinking of flower colour. Salvias would be good if I didn't keep killing them. And there's hebe, too. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/ |
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I've got TEDDY BEARS Yeah! bee attractant for your garden
Okay, I'm skiteing, but its exciting.
We have had blue banded for a few years. They just love the bush basil. This year, we finally have teddy bears. http://www.zeta.org.au/~anbrc/teddy_bear_bee.html http://www.zeta.org.au/~anbrc/beesin...#teddybearbees Well, one so far andit was visiting the pelegonium. This site is well worth book marking if you are interested in native bees. http://www.zeta.org.au/~anbrc/. If anyone around Campbelltown, NSW wants to get rid of some clay, one of my projects is a banded bee nesting boxen. (Sorry, could not find pdf again.) |
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