While red bee balm is a favorite in many perennial pollinator gardens, these flowers also come in various shades of purple, making them a showy, mid-summer favorite. High Country Gardens notes ...

where yellow pigments combine with ultraviolet to produce a shade referred to as “bee purple.” This combination and many others occur on the blossoms of more than a quarter of all flowering ...

To keep your lavender happy and ensure it produces lots of those beautiful purple spires ... but did you know it produces bee-friendly flowers, too? “Bumblebees absolutely love rosemary ...

but the care did not outweigh the bumble bee traffic on the plants. As a result, I am getting prepared to start my own salvia ...