GARDENING WITH HARMONY

A passionate gardener, helping you achieve harmony in your garden for wildlife and your own wellbeing.

Tag: flowers for bees and butterflies

  • Wonderful dahlias, stunning beauty and buzzing bees

    Wonderful dahlias, stunning beauty and buzzing bees

    With the nickname of Dahlia Queen, it will be pretty clear that I adore wonderful dahlias. They are unrivalled for giving a fantastic colourful display for months, from early summer through to the first frosts. In addition, there are so many varieties and such a wide choice of flower shapes and colours to choose from.…

  • Sowing bee beautiful hardy annuals

    Sowing bee beautiful hardy annuals

    Now is a great time to sow some hardy annual seeds. These are flowers that will germinate, grow, flower and die in one year. They can be sown straight into the ground from late March onwards which is the reason they are called hardy annuals as opposed to half-hardy annuals which cannot tolerate frost. Check…