Best plants for bees and pollinating insects in all seasons

A colourful guide to wildlife friendly flowers at different times of the year, with beautiful blooms to brighten your garden from winter through spring and summer right into autumn.
With bees and insect populations reported to be in decline it is important that we do what we can to provide habitat and food sources for beneficial insects such as bees and hover flies.
In this video Roger shows us some plants that he has seen / photographed insects feeding from, with a focus on providing flowers at different times of the year and across all seasons.
Winter ...
Crocus and aconoites (bulbs)
Winter flowering heathers (Erica Carnea)
Spring ...
Muscari - grape hyacinths
Skimmia Rubella
Aquilegia - Grannies Bonnet
Blue bells
Hardy Geraniums
Iris
Poppies (papaver) species
Cornflowers
Foxgloves
Summer ...
Thyme
Cistus (Rock Rose)
Cordyline
Echium
Allium
Monbretia
Nepeta (cat mint)
Clematis
Cardoon (Cyanura or Globe artichoke)
Achillia
Lavender
Scabious
Leacanthemum (Chrysanthemum)
Echinops
Verbena Bonariensis
Kniphofia (Red hot poker)
Cosmos
Dahlia
Eryngium
Helenium
Rudbeckia
Sunflowers

Buddleia
Summer and into Autumn ...
Sedum Autumn Joy
Caryopteris
Japanese anemones
Asters (Michaelmas daisies)
Echinacaea
Hebe
Common wild ivy (hedera)

Видео Best plants for bees and pollinating insects in all seasons канала Roger Crookes