What plant do bees and butterflies love the most in your garden?

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I always see them at the lavender, sunflowers and verbena in my garden. I have limited space but I’d love to plant some more thing this year that would benefit them.

Climbing ivy is covered with hover flies and the like. They love the tiny flowers.

Lavender and wisteria!

Cornflower

Something not yet mentioned is blueberries. They have a relatively long flowering period, for a fruit bush and audibly thrum with busy bees when they are in bloom.

That, and the classics of lavender, phacealia, borage, comfrey and 1 particular rose.

Chives

Oh and the Holly when that's in bloom. And cowslips- this one is nice and early, and is attractive to the bees for aaaaages.

OP what about some evening-flowering things for moths? Nicotiana would be my recommendation here.

Sycamore and lime trees. Not ideal for a small garden though.

Cotoneaster, buddleia, ivy in the autumn and, strangely, my black plastic garden table. I have no idea why that is but every year they sit on it and buzz around it!

They’re going crazy over my raspberries!

Welsh poppies, foxgloves and we’ve got some Sicilian honey garlic which they adore!

Cerinthe major Purpurascens. Grows from seed and self seeds.

Scabiosa. Mine has been in flower for weeks already and we still had flowers in November.

Bees on my ceanothus at the moment. I read that Borage refills with nectar the quickest of most plants so ive planted more seeds as its not reppeared yet

Buddleia. Bees and butterflies love it.

The same as you OP: lavender and verbena. We have a clematis in flower at the moment but they don't seem so bothered about that. Californian poppies were a hit a couple of years ago.

The bees in my garden go mad for the oregano, can't get near it they get really territorial!!

And also Pulmonaria

Chives and clover very popular with our bees!

The bees love the berberis in our garden!

Rosemary, lavender, blueberries, boysenberries, cherry & buddleia.
I've been including more & more bee & insect friendly plants this year.

I went on a Bee Safari last weekend & the ranger said the bumblebees are late emerging this year due to the cold wet spring, so the queens have only recently come out of hibernation & need to build up their colonies hence why there are fewer bumblebees around atm.

Cotoneaster is smothered in bees, as are the verbascum, honeysuckle, phlox and lilac.

I don’t grow anything in my garden unless it’s attractive to bees and insects.

Bees, raspberries. We keep bumping into each other while I'm putting the laundry out and I momentarily get in their way.

The bees are loving my Lupins at the moment, there are constantly 2 or 3 buzzing around.

Lavender. We've got it on the pathway both sides. Sometimes there are so many bees you run a gauntlet to get to the door