• garden flowers – flowers are an important part of the permaculture garden. The flowers attract the bees, the bees pollinate your vegetable and fruit trees and crop yields increase. There are many flowers that will attract bees; bog sage, dahlia, daisies, hebe, lavender, marigold, roses, salvia.
• herbs – leaving herbs to go to flower provides bees with an abundance of food. Here are a few that do well; basil, borage, mint, parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme.
• native species – with a range of native species you can provide pollen and nectar to your bees all year round: bottlebrush, eucalypts, geebungs, peas, tea-tree, grevillias.
• vegetables – some plants produce flowers to produce fruit: tomato, pumpkin, cucumber and others produce flowers after fruiting to create seed; brassicas, onion, lettuces.…