Plants and flowers that attract bees

Apart from the ideal honey plants to attract bees and help them, we recommend other species of flowering plants that, although they are not considered honey, will be of great help to these pollinating insects. take note of other plants and flowers that attract bees and you can easily have in your garden, terrace or orchard:

• catnip: also called scientifically Nepeta cataria and commonly catnip, cat basil, catnip, catnip, catnip, or catnip is a good choice for attracting bees when this plant is in full bloom.
• Oregano: is scientifically called origanum vulgare. This plant will seem like a good option because it is one of the best plants to help bees and, at the same time, you can use it a lot in your kitchen. In addition, it helps all kinds of pollinating insects, such as bees, wasps and bumblebees, and also birds.
• Lanthanum: It is a genus of plants with very striking flowers. It is very good at attracting pollinating insects and thus helping bees in danger of extinction. However, we must be careful because its fruits are toxic to us and some animals, so if you have curious children or pets, do not choose this plant.
• Zinnia: Zinnias are a genus of diverse plants, but all of them are very useful to pollinators like bees and look fantastic in any garden or orchard. Plants with thin and long stems are made with large flowers on top and of different colors, very striking.
• Daisies: Among the plants to help bees we also find the typical daisies, serving any kind, since any type of daisy plants will be very beneficial for pollinators.
• Balm: you may know the Melissa officinalis for being one of the most used medicinal plants, especially to calm down and fall asleep. We recommend having it in your home to attract bees and prevent them from becoming extinct and, in addition, you can enjoy its benefits in infusion if you need it. This plant blooms throughout the summer and produces a large number of flowers.
• Immortelles: It is a good option to start attracting bees early to your garden, as it begins to bloom when there is little left for winter to end but spring has not yet begun. Learn about the cultivation and care of the immortelle with this other article from EcologíaVerde.

Now that you know which flowers are good for bees, we want to give you ideas so that you can help them as much as possible with simple gestures and thus, together, we can prevent them from becoming extinct, which would be tragic for the entire planet because life in general would be reduced drastically in a relatively short time. So these are other ways to help bees to prevent them from becoming extinct:

• You can create your own space to help bees at home, dedicating a part of your garden, terrace, balcony or vegetable garden to growing some of the flowering plants that we have mentioned before. In addition, you can place devices that can help create a hive, like the boxes for beekeeping but leaving them open. We only recommend the latter if you do it in a large orchard or garden, to prevent them from entering your house.
• Stop using products that pollute the environment, such as pesticides, pesticides and insecticides with synthetic chemicals, and start using natural products to take care of your plants. This way you will take care of both the plants, flowers and bees.
• If you eat honey, before buying it, make sure it is organically produced since it does not harm the bee population, which industrial level production does, apart from the fact that they also process the final product much more and be less healthy for us. .
• Make requests to your government or council to include flowering plants that bees eat, such as honeybees, and to ask them not to use pesticides that are harmful to them when caring for public landscaped areas in your locality.
• Support organizations and associations that carry out projects to prevent the extinction of bees. You can do it by becoming a volunteer or by donating materials and/or money so that they can continue their work.

Here below we leave you some videos about the importance of bees and about how bees make honey, so that you understand them better and, thus, by sharing this knowledge you also help others to understand them.

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