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Writer's pictureJennifer J

Planting Purple Flowers For Bees 🐝



Planting flowers in the garden is one of

the best ways that you can help bees in your garden.


The best time to do that is through the summer months, when bees are most active and full of life.


Bees are attracted to many different types of flowers. But they are attracted

to some flowers more than other flowers.


If you want to help bees in the garden this summer, then the best type of flowers that you can plant in your garden is purple flowers, as purple flowers attract bees the most.


These adorable and colourful insects are attracted by purple flowers the most because they can see the colour purple better than any other colour. Therefore, if you want these cute animals to come into the garden and you want to help them this summer, then planting purple flowers is the best type of flowers that you can plant in your garden to help them.



There are many different purple flowers that you can choose from for bees in the garden.


Here is a list of some of the purple flowers that you can plant.


Allium


Bulbs are planted in Autumn and they flower in May, June and July.


Lavender


These should be planted in April or May and they flower from June to August.


Purple Pansies


There are many different species of purple pansies.


Purple pansies can be planted in spring and summer, they flower all summer.


Cardonna


You should plant these in either May or June. They flower between June and October.


These are just some of the flowers that you can plant to help bees throughout the summer. Planting purple flowers in the garden is a good way to attract bees into your garden and help them this summer. Even though bees are most drawn to purple flowers, they will be drawn to other colours of flowers that you plant in the garden.

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