Marina Christopher – The Plight of the Bee – Flowers to the Rescue

Marina Christopher’s – Plants for Bees & other insects

  • Aster ‘Little Carlow’
  • Achilleas – any
  • Solidago virgaurea – care needed as invasive
  • S. rugose – good late clump former – non-invasive
  • S. speciose – clump former
  • Rudbeckia laciniate ‘Herbstonne’
  • Eupatorium cannabium – native Hemp Agrimony
  • E. maculatum – Joe Pye Weed
  • Salvia verticillate
  • Geranium ‘Rozanne’
  • Persicaria amplexicaule ‘Firedance’, pink and white varieties, ‘Fat Domino’ & ‘Blackfield’ – all good for late summer
  • Vernonia crinite
  • Phlox paniculate
  • Silphium perfoliatum
  • Apiaceae – all the umbellifers good for flies and beetles
  • Astrantia ‘Roma’ – is sterile so does not self seed Allium sphaerocephalum
  • Allium ‘Summer Beauty’
  • Actaea simplex & Cvs
  • Colchicum
  • Crocus – autumn flowering species
  • Succicia pratensis – Devil’s Bit Scabious
  • Scabiosa columbaria var. ochroleuca – cream flowers
  • Scutellaria incana – late summer flowering Skull Cap
  • Verbena hastate
  • Verbena macdougalii
  • Veronicastrum – many cultivars