Plant for the Bees
May 12, 2014
Every year I say the same thing, plant for the bees. Well here I am again, time to plant for those bees! It’s not too late, you can still plant a ton of things. Head to the local nursery or even your store, they most likely have plants sitting out in the sun soaking up glorious sunshine. If you plan on planting any vegetables during the summer you want to bring the bees in. Establish the pollinators now so that you can keep them coming in throughout the summer.
4 great flowers to start from seeds that don’t required any at all fuss to grow –
- Zinna’s which can come in an array of colors
- Cosmos, also colorful
- Poppies, while there are different varieties of these California Poppies ( orange) are the easiest and quickest to grow. I find the other colors, take white, pink or red don’t always come up as fast and or they are much smaller . You can’t go wrong with the orange ones, they are bright and cheerful.
- Marigolds, these you can buy different varieties of as well and can even buy plants if you don’t want to start with seeds.
Plant those flowers! 
32 Comments
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Coolmoms Cooltips
I had been thinking about a way to help with the conservation of bees this garden sounds like the perfect way!
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Ashley Gill
Last summer my garden attracted quite a few bees! My friend told me all about the pollinating they can do for me.. I let them be! I may have gone running for the hills a few times, but I let them hang out in my garden!
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Babita@BabsProjects
Even though I understand the importance of bees, I am my girls are very afraid of them.I do plant a lot of flowers in my garden, so I have some bees around.
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Nikki
I am terrified of all things that sting, but I do know how important bees are. In fact, my son came home the other day and told me that we would all die in "three days" without bees. While I think he misunderstood and we'd live a bit longer than that, he wants to do his part to help them.
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Marni Mutrux
I feel so bad for what's happening to bees. Every flower counts! Just be careful with the insecticide.
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Casa Vilora Interiors
We definitely need the bees. They are going to be extinct unless we do something about it thanks to GMO crops. Our produce shopping experience will definitely be different without bees
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Ronnie E.
Bees scare me. 🙁 Terrify me even. My grandma always planted so much flowers in the garden to attract them and then I wouldn't be able to have fun outside because they would fly around me all the time. Killer bees as well, eek!! But I know how important it is to maintain the bee population..
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Alice Chase
I love your pictures!! marigolds are what we usually plant because they stand up under the Texas heat so well. Thanks for the reminder to get planting!
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Virginia Higgins
I want to plant sun flowers to get the bees to come so I can have an awesome garden in a few years.
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Pam
Lots of good ideas here. I know when I was growing up we have a huge yard with so many wonderful flowering plants and lots of bees. I know we just played right along side them and they rarely bothered us.
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Jennifer Williams
We are doing a lot of potted plants around our house. We are currently stuck renting so this is how I am able to plant for the bees as well as have my herb garden. When we finally get to move I can take my plants with me.
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Curby Aardvark
People tend to fear bees and not like them, I think they look pretty cool and they are not even dangerous; you don't harm them and they won't harm you.
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Marielle Altenor
I know bees are needed to make the flowers so beautiful but I have a fear of them! I run and shrink in fear when I see a been come to close!
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Christy Garrett Uplifting Families
Great idea, I have heard that bees are on the decline. This isn't a good thing either. Without bees we won't have honey and I would rather have a bee in my garden than wasps.
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Sarah-Louise Bailey
What some lovely ideas, I want to plat some more flowers this year I shall have to try and make them more bee friendly. x
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Tough Cookie Mommy
This might help the bee population. I have been hearing that pollution is putting their population in danger and we need them for a lot of things.
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A Merican Punjaban PI
This is a good tip. I live in an apartment right now so I have to be careful how many bees I invite into a small patio. Still, I love my flowers so I'll use your tips to be careful while planting my patio garden this year.
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Jennifer Zimmerman
I am torn, because I know how important they are for the world. But I'm allergic so I'd rather not have them in my yard!
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Scott
How about we plant them in the neighbor's yard? I'm not wild about bees at all, but I realize they are necessary.
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becca
How cool to plant flowers to attracted certain insects. my son is trying to growing a pepper plant.
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AMBER EDWARDS
I absolutely love Marigolds and zinna's. I hope to have some of them planted in my new house once we get moved in. I'm not fond of having bees in my yard much because of the "stinging" issues; but I know they are super important for the growth of our plants and fruit trees. So I put up with them.
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Touristmeetstraveler
Bees are actually might become extinct at one point, throughout the years there have been less and less of them appearing.
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Liz Mays
I love what they do for gardens and I hate that they're in danger in the world. But I'm also afraid of them!
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Masshole Mommy
I should probably try this & then they would stay the heck away from my deck and stop building hives underneath the railings.
Denise Gabbard
Marigolds and zinnias have always seemed to be the best for bringing in bees, and the marigolds keep deer away too, I think.