Plants for Bumble Bees
Arne Herbs supplies plants that encourage wildlife into your garden. Here is a list of plants that are favoured by the Bumble Bee, with links to some of the ranges in our plant catalogue:
March/April
- Cowslip
- Apple
- Bluebell
- Broom (Cytisus and Spartium)
- Bugle
- Lungwort (Pulmonaria)
- Willow
- Red dead-nettle
- Rosemary
- White dead-nettle
May/ June
- Alliums
- Aquilegia
- Bastard balm
- Betony
- Birds-foot trefoil
- Bugle
- Vetch, various
- Campanula
- Chives
- Comfrey
- Pea, wild and sweet
- wallflower
- Foxglove
- Geranium
- Honeysuckle
- Laburnum
- Lupin
- Monkshood
- Poppies
- Red Campion
- Roses (singles)
- Sage, particularly Greek
- Salvia
- Thyme
- Meadow Cranesbill
- White Clover
- Woundwort, various