Every garden needs pollinators, including bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and many others. Without them there would be limited flowers and even fewer fruit and vegetables, so youre...
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Every garden needs pollinators, including bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and many others. Without them there would be limited flowers and even fewer fruit and vegetables, so youre doing them a real favour growing a selection of plants that will provide them with a good source of nectar and pollen. Both honey bees and bumble bees are active from February until September/October , and its important that they have suitable plants in flower throughout that period. Bees have good colour vision, so choose several colours of flowers. And the more flowers you have the more attractive to pollinators your garden will be!Collection contains 8 plants (1 of each variety) supplied in 9cm pots:Doronicum Little Leo - Bushy, well-branched plants producing lush foliage and masses of large single flowers composed of quilled yellow petals and pale orange centres. Vase life of up to 8 days. Flowers April-May. Height 30-40cm (12-16). Ideal for beds and borders, patio pots and containers. RHS perfect for pollinators. Suitable for cut flowers. Prefers full sun or partial shade. Knautia Melton Pastels - These superb plants provide a long succession of colour, producing large flowers in soft shades, held above bushy clumps of mid green leaves. Flowers late May-September. Height 90cm (3'). Ideal for beds and borders, patio pots and containers. Suitable for cut flowers. RHS perfect for pollinators. Prefers full sun or partial shade. Scabiosa Snowmaiden - Fully double, clean white blooms. Flowers June-October. Height 90cm (3'). Ideal for beds and borders. Suitable for cut flowers. RHS perfect for pollinators. Prefers full sun or partial shade. Lavender Hidcote - A compact variety of the popular English lavender. Its dense, intensely aromatic, silver-grey foliage is covered, in summer, with spikes of fragrant, deep violet flowers. Height 60cm (24). Ideal for beds and borders, patio pots and containers. RHS perfect for pollinators. Prefers full sun or partial shade. Lantana Miss Huff This exotic-looking variety can withstand temperatures as low as -12C (provided it's grown in well drained soils). Blooms open orange, fading to yellow and pink as they age, creating a beautiful effect against the deep green leaves. Flowers June-first frosts. Height 75cm (30). Ideal for beds and borders, patio pots and containers. RHS perfect for pollinators. Prefers full sun or partial shade. Potentilla Gold Sovereign Rich golden, saucer-shaped flowers provide colour throughout the season, set off against narrow, oblong, soft green leaves. Flowers June-September. Height 15-25cm (6-10). Ideal for beds and borders, patio pots and containers. RHS perfect for pollinators. Prefers full sun or partial shade. Agastache Red Fortune - Rich cerise-red with a hint of purple. Flowers July-October. Height 60-90cm (2-3').Echinacea Lilliput - Flowers are deep rose purple and fragrant, mounding habit, dwarf form, attractive to pollinating insects. Height 30cm (12).
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