Seeds for bees and butterflies

Seeds for bees and butterflies

These flower seeds attract bees and butterflies. The most bees and butterflies attractors have an open heart. The bees and butterflies can easily get to the heart of the flower to collect pollen. Seeds for bees and butterflies are often single flowered this means that they have single petals around the flower.

Seeds for bees and butterflies are often scented. The floral smell of the flowers really attracts the bees and butterflies. They love the nice fragrance of flowers. The powerful colours attract the bees and butterflies.

Planting seeds for bees ad butterflies

First loosen the top layer of the soil a little. Get rid of clods and stones. Then make sallow furrows (also called ‘drills’) about 0,5 centimeters (or 0,2 inches) deep. Moisten the soil a little before sowing. Then drop the seeds in the drill by hand or just stick them in the soil on their side. Make sure you sow the seeds more uniformly, because otherwise the seeds will grow irregularly and sometimes in clumps.

After sowing, cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil or sand, so the seeds can absorb the warmth of the sun. The best is to do that with soil that has the same thickness as your seeds. You can also label your flower seeds, so you know what seed it is.

Care for seeds for bees and butterflies

Remove weeds regularly, this can be by hoe or by hand. The best is to do this in dry weather. It is important to remove the weeds before they get too high and overgrow your flowers, then the chance in big that your flowers don’t grow.

Water your plant regularly. The best is to water your plants in the morning or in the evening, this avoids leaf burn. You give the plant time to absorb the water, this makes the plant stronger.

You need to support some flowers as they grow very tall. You can do this before planting with a grid from wire netting or while the plant grow. While the plants grow you can carefully add baboo stakes in between the plants.

Varieties of butterflies and bee seeds

At FAM Flower Farm we have different varieties of bee flower seeds. Some of these attract bees and butterflies. Some seeds of aster, scabiosa, delphinium, zinnia and cosmos can be used as bee seeds. Al these flowers have an open heart. You can filter the colours in our webshop to choose your favourites and plant them in your garden.

When to plant seeds for bees and butterflies?

All our flower seeds are annual. This means that they grow from seeds to flowers in just one year. You can plant the bee flower seeds right after the chance of frost is over. This often is around mid-May or June. At the same time as flower seeds, you can plant dahlia tubers. By choosing beautiful colours, you make your garden a party. Red dahlias, orange dahlias and pink dahlias will make your garden stand out.

One of the most famous dahlias to plant is the white dahlia, cafe au lait. This dahlia is very big and the colour of this flower can vary from off white to peachy-pink.

Flower seeds flower around June until September. The dahlias flower in July or August until the first night of frost. By combining these two flowers you garden will look extraordinary.

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