Pollinator-friendly plants for a new season!

The Bee Cafes are currently packed with pollen-rich spring-flowers but preparations are now under way to swap them out with summer sustenance!
 
At Katie’s Garden we have selected out a range of perennials and annuals to grow for the Cafes, including several from our new Native Plants range.

Staff and volunteers are working their way through the 600 recycled bottles which are being used as planters!

Perennials include Monardas Balmy Purple & Balmy Pink (aka Bee Balm – so a must-have!); Agastaches Morello & Little Adder (Giant Hyssop – another pollinator-favourite); Erigerons karvinskianus Stallone, Wayne Roderick & Seabreeze; Salvia Marvel Blue; Lavenders Essence Purple & Hidcote; Verbena Buenos Aires (also a magnet for butterflies and small birds); Echinacea Pow Wow White; Gaillardia’s Mesa Red and Mesa Yellow (Blanket Flower); and Campanula (Bellflower).

From the native range we are using Red Clover, Ox-Eye Daisy, Knapweed and Lady’s Bedstraw.

From our summer bedding range we are using Diascia Pink; Portulaca Happy Trails; Verbena Showboat Dark Red; Bidens Bee Happy Red.