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I planted borage (which have blue purple star shaped flowers) this year and I have never had more bees! Plus you can use the leaves to make delicious tea 🙂
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Nepeta, Veronica, Bee Balm and Lavender are also good choices.
Would love to see an update of your pollinator garden! 🙂
Would those bring the pollinators to things like peppers or will they still ignore the peppers and only focus on the "better" flowers?
Best flowers to use are those native to your area. Plain and simple.
agastache is really really pretty
Have you tried growing a buddlea it's a great pollinator to have in the garden
Hi. I'm a fan of your channel, I found this video encouraging to bring in pollinators. I would like to do that with flowers that aren't so very interesting to deer. Would there by chance be 6 flowering plants you could recommend that deer don't find all that interesting (deer deterrent)? We live in Oregon, zones 8 & 9.
I really enjoyed the video. But I want to say it would be important to mention that the choice of which flowers to plant really depends on your country and area. Local plants are always the better choice, because many animals specialise on the plants native to their region. A lot of people import and many exotic plants look really nice, but are rather invasive in the wrong area and don't feed all those specialised pollinators (a lot of wild bees do in fact only visit a small list of plants, some only visit a single type, so you can have beautiful exotic flowers in your garden that end up feeding nothing and potentially spread and replace the local flora that the pollinators actually rely on.)
So, I really enjoyed the video, but I hope everyone knows that instead of taking this as recommendations, depending on where they live it is better treated as inspiration to find beautiful local plants that offer the same benefits 🙂 Lovely though and I have never heard of milkweed before, living in northern Europe, so now I'm gonna go read up on monarch butterflies and then hummingbirds, because oh my god I wish we had those here <3
we have a huge pink echinacea and there is this one butterfly that apparently now basically lives on this plant. Everytime it gets spooked and flutters off it will be back in less than 10 minutes. It's incredibly.
Man, the recipients of the flowers were so cool and collected. If Kevin showed up at my door, I would’ve been jumping up and down and squealing in crazy joy, LOL!! You’re #1 on my fave celebs list!! 🙂 Super sweet of you to personally deliver, and this video is awesome – I’m just getting into planting flowers with my veggies, perfect timing as usual!
I am enjoying your channel.
I am 2 week new into learning how to garden. I am in zone 8 in Texas. I started my Herb garden in my APT.
Are these perennials? I live in Canada, and I would love to transform the front of my apartment into a perennial pollinating flower garden.
Beautiful share my freind thank you very mutch.
I'm surprised you didn't mention perennial basil. They're so easy to grow, doesn't self-seed, and the bees love them.
cinnamon basil for me this year attracted the most bees
Is it possible to just plant them in pots??? I have a raised bed because i am restricted on what to plant on the ground
English people know milkweed as Swan Plant from the shape of the seed pod you only need to buy one as they seed like crazy for the following year the plants need covering when the caterpillars appear or Mr Birdie will feast at Restaurant Protein very quickly.