Plants to go with Bug Hotel?

Hi guys,

I've just brought myself three Mini Bug Cubes from www.bughotel.co.uk, here's the photo from the website below. Am wondering if anyone could suggest some plants that are good for bees and other pollinators that I could plant near to it to encourage them to use it?

Thanks for your help,

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Paul. Just coming into bloom now, Sedum (Ice plant), bees and butterflies love them.

 

This year the amount of bees and butterflies here has been astonishing. They seem to love dahlias, gerberas, petunias, crocosmia, rudbeckia and helianthum especially. The downside to the butterflies is lots, and I mean hundreds and hundreds of caterpillars.

 

At the moment the bees are visiting the asters and also the nasturtiums which are still flowering their socks off.

 

Hi Sheal, thanks for the welcome! Those sedum look great! How long do they flower for?

Thanks al n, I'll have to google some of those and see what they look like. would love to see lots of butterflies in the garden!

Thanks Fern4 too

could anyone suggest some long flowering plants that the bees etc would love?

 

My marjoram/oregano (no idea which it is but they're pretty similar from a flower point of view) has been flowering all summer and seems to be very popular with the bees. Is probably best to put in plants to cover the seasons rather than just one variety though?

 

From late summer through to the first frosts, being perennial they'll die back for winter and re shoot in spring. The one above will be a burgundy colour in full bloom.

 

ye' cant forget Buddleia! our 'Black Night' & the two wild type ones we have still have a few flowers & the yellow one 'golden glow' is still going strong

 

The bee's have loved my lavender this year.

 

Verbena Bonarisis mine are covered in both bees and butterflies.

Rusty.