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    Bee friendly plants – the top mail order choices from rosybee nursery


    May 15th, 2017 - Spring gardening, Summer gardening, Wildlife gardening

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    Having bought mail order plants from rosybee.com nursery and been impressed with their quality,  I contacted Rosi Rollings and went to visit her at her nursery near Wantage in Oxfordshire.

    Rosi is so interested in providing plants for bees that she has planted a research bed with square metres of each plant she wants to test.  She then does a daily snapshot counting the number of bees on each type of plant.

    Plants for bees

    Rosi’s rosybee nursery

     

    Plants for bees from a plant nursery

    Rosi’s research bed

    She raises plants from seed which she then sells in trays of 6 or 10, each plants being garden ready and about the size of a 7cm pot. Together they will attract many of the 255 species of bee there are in this country.

    Bee friendly plants

    Seedlings being potted on

    A pack of 6 and a box just delivered given a good soaking

    Plants for bees

    Six plants in a tray

    Plants for bees geranium and pulmonaria

    Exciting delivery of plants in great condition

    Her website at rosybee.com offers collections including bee plants for shade which are particularly useful for a town garden.

    Here are some names you might recognise:-

    Helenium autumnale, echium vulgare, Helenium Sahin’s Early Flowerer, hyssop, wild oreganum, teucrium, nepeta, scabious, foxgloves, sedum, knautia, cranesbill and pulmonaria.

    Here is my newly planted sunny border which will grow and spread out to provide a bee buffet.  Thankyou rosybee!

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    2 comments on "Bee friendly plants – the top mail order choices from rosybee nursery"

    1. Cathy says:
      5th June 2017 at 8:56 am

      You have a comment nox now – hurrah! Let’s test it out 😀 I really like the idea of the collections offered by rosybee. Here, two of my mason bee nesting tubes have been capped, so the bees must be finding something satisfactory in the garden, which is good to know!

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        5th June 2017 at 11:55 am

        Thanks for commenting. Buzz buzz.

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