Flowers benefit from the bees tireless work

Bees are a great benefit to many types of plants, herbs, shrubs and yes, especially flowers. Here is a run down of many various flowers that will do very well when surrounded by our little flying friends.

 

Aster (various). Purple Aster: Aster bigelovii. Profusely branched annual or biennial to 3 feet. Becomes a solid mound of lilac flowers in the fall. Plant seeds anytime, early fall is best. Water for more abundant flowering.

– Bachelor’s Buttons Centaurea Cyanus. Annual with blue, white and pink flowers. Full sun, average water, reseeds itself readily

– Blanket Flower, Firewheel Gaillardia (various). Delicate red & yellow annual daisy. Blooms all summer, native.

– Blue Flax Linum Lewisii. Easy, perennnial to 2 ft. Small blue flowers open every morning and fade in the afternoon. Easy to start from seed. Likes sun or part shade.

– Buckwheat Eriogonum spp. Great drought tolerant plant attractive to meny pollinators

– California poppy Eschscholzia californica. Annual. Yellow-orange flowers in late spring. Full sun and sandy well-drained, poor soil

– Cosmos Cosmos spp. Easy to grow brightly colored blossoms loved by honeybees bloom in midsummer.

– Crocus Early spring bloom, various colors available, drought tolerant.

– Globe thistle Echinops. Blue flowering perennial, full sun, summer bloom, drought tolerant.

– Goldenrod Solidago spp. Yellow flowers in mid summer and fall, drought tolerant.

– Purple Cone Flower Echinacea. Drought tolerant once established, perennial comes in various colors, summer bloom.

– Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Cleome serrulata. Native annual pink to purple pink flowers in summer, drought tolerant.

– Rocky Mountain Penstemon Penstemon Strictus. Perennial with blue/purple flowers in late spring , drought tolerant.

– Russian Sage Perovska atriplicafolia. Perennial 4-5 ft tall, shrub-like with long-blooming spikes of blue flowers in summer and late summer. Drought tolerant.

– Sages Salvia (various). Some are native, some with fragrant foliage. Spikes of blue, purple, raspberry or red flowers, summer blooming to 3 ft tall, drought tolerant.

– Scarlet Globemallow Sphaeralcea coccinea. Low spreading perennial with orange saucer-shaped flowers in late summer, very drought tolerant.

– Scorpionweed Phacelia ssp. Drought tolerant purple flower attractive to many pollinators

– Sedum Sedum spp. Fall blooming and hardy, especially Autumn Joy and Ruby Glow.

– Sunflower Helianthus spp. Fall blooming yellow blooms attract many species of pollinators