May 11, 2020 -

Attracting Honey Bees to your Garden
Here are some tips that will help you attract honey bees:

• Bees like flowers that are white, blue, violet, and yellow.  They also like fragrant flowers.

• Planting flowering vegetables and trees also help

• Stop using pesticides and herbicides.  The pesticides now used are so toxic that one drop can kill a whole bee hive.  One drop of certain pesticides can kill up to 10,000 bees

• Bees need a constant supply of water but if you set out water, make sure it is in a bee friendly feeder because bees going to a water source can drown if it is not correctly set.

A list of bee friendly flowers.  Flowers you can use to attract bees.

• Asters

• Ageratum (Summer)

• Black Eyed Susan (Summer)

• Blue Hyssop (Summer)

• Clover

• Coneflower (summer)

• Cosmos

• Crocuses

• Dahlias

• Foxglove

• Geraniums

• Hollyhocks

• Hyacinth

• Indian Blanket Flower

• Lavender

• Marigolds

• Morning Glory

• Nasturtium

• Poppies

• Roses

• Snapdragons

• Snowdrops

• Sunflowers

• Tall Zinnias