Create a Buzz in Your Garden this Winter

Bees need our help all year round supporting their search for pollen and nectar.  In the winter months particularly, there are few flowering plants in the wild. Whenever bees are active if we plant a food source in our gardens, we will help to boost the local bee colonies so important to our environment.

Winter flowering plants will add cheer in our gardens during the grey winter days which in turn will boost our personal well being.

Not only will the bees benefit but birds and other insects will also feast on the winter bounty.

Eight plants to help the wildlife through to Spring

Aconite (winter flowering)

Evergreen Clematis (Clematis Freckles)

Mahonia (both flowers and berries)

Mahonia japonica is an evergreen shrub, which has been extensively cultivated in Japan and is commonly called Japanese mahonia, although it is native to China. Fragrant yellow flowers in loose, spreading to pendant racemes bloom in late winter to early spring (March-April). Flowers are followed by ornamentally attractive grape-like bunches of small waxy fruits which mature to blue-black in late spring to early summer.

Strawberry Tree

An evergreen shrub with creamy white flowers in Autumn which sit beside the rich strawberry like fruits which have developed from the previous season – A feast from September to November

Willow

Primrose

Winter Flowering Heather

Winter Flowering Honeysuckle