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Welsh Onion Flower

Aliums

Runner Beans

A popular food plant for man, the Runner bean is also popular with the bees that pollinate it. It also attract the scourge of many gardeners, the blackfly, but this in turn provides food for other insects and birds. Often ants can be seen ‘farming’ blackfly on Runner beans.

Did you know? A good environmentally way to keep slugs from eating young Runner Bean plants, is to put a ring of sawdust around then, renewing it regularly until the plants are established.

Globe Thistle in bud

Globe Thistle

Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia)

A striking plant, blooming only briefly, but its flowers attract many insects. Birds such as sparrows can also be seen drinking the nectar from its long trumpet shaped flowers.

Rose of Sharon (Hypericum calycinum)

The Rose of Sharon, also known as Aaron’s beard, like the other Hypericums has bright yellow showy flowers that attract many insects especially bees and hoverflies. Evergreen or semi-evergreen.

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