Best Bee Plants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We can all use more bees in our garden, and some species of plants do a better job at attracting bees. Even further, some varieties are exceptional and others, less so. Today we discuss a few varieties that work well from Proven Winners.

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0:00.0	What's going on,
0:02.0	what's going to be?
0:04.0	What's going on everyone? Welcome back to another episode here on the Epic
0:17.4	Gardening podcast Adam Mosley is back. He's the research and new product
0:20.7	developer at Pleasantview Gardens, which is the home of
0:23.3	proven winners. Yesterday we talked about hummingbird plants and specifically
0:28.2	highlighting some of the ones that they're working on and have available over
0:31.5	at proven winners.
0:33.0	Today we're talking about bees, which are the most ubiquitous pollinator that we all know in the home garden.
0:38.0	What varieties are out there that you guys at least have four bees at them.
0:45.0	I gotta go back to my my stakeholder pollinator genus and that's Salvia.
0:51.0	I mean Salvia is again just very very, very versatile. There's tons of
0:54.4	different species out there. Really something that you can collect if you get a
0:58.5	little geeky on that because there is a really bunch of diversity there. But Sal Rock and Play in the Blues and our new one unplugged so
1:06.1	we are both kind of in the Farinacea species.
1:09.4	And those seem to be just the most outstanding bee plants
1:12.7	that I ever put in the garden for me.
1:15.2	Smaller purple blue flower, but just a ton of activity on them.
1:20.4	Awesome.
1:21.4	Yeah, yeah, it sounds like I'm going to need to create almost my own little
1:23.8	collection of of these different salvias.
1:29.1	I've seen a few collections and there's a lot of fun you can have with it.
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