If you’re interested in planting your garden or leaving plants on your balcony, here are some plants to consider to help the bees get their nutrients, based on when plants are in full bloom:
April
• Heather
• Crocus
• Daffodils
• Scilla fruit trees
• Maples
May
• Columbine
• Brunnera
• Foxgloves
• Wallflowers
• Any species of geranium
June
• Flowering herbs
• Lavenders
• Styrax trees
• Monarda
• Catmint
• Poppies
• Lovage
• Any species of Tilia
July
• Joe Pye weed
• Catmint
• Penstemon
• Perovskia
• Salvia plants
• Sweet clover (Melilotus)
August
• Sunflowers
• Phlox
• Bluebeard shrub (Caryopteris)
• Bee Bee tree
• Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus)
September
• Sedums
• Bluebeard shrub
• Late flowering herbs
• Asters