h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

At the moment my garden is a bit of a blank slate; we have a long lawn flanked by an empty border. In the empty border I would love to put flowers that attract and are good for bees.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I saw some bees going wild over lavender yesterday evening so that's a good start!

We have Lavender and (blue) Geraniums - the bees love 'em!

Ooh, good good. I have a buddlia (so?) right at the back, along with a clemetis (sp?) that's braving the chain link fence between us and the cricket ground. Fingers crossed I haven't killed them yet!

Foxgloves are good as are Aquilegias.

I think it's the plants with single flowers that insects go for. Those they can get into the middle of rather than the showy double flowered varieties.

Have you had a look at the wildlife gardening entries written by Mina?
A595497 (getting started) and A627879 (insects amphibians and reptiles)

Oooh, thanks for that. I'll have a read when I'm not a w*rk.

I've just been harvesting the crop of bluebells seeds from my bed underneath the magnolia tree.

Current tally is 258 - and there are dozens of pods yet to crack open.

I'm keeping them all dry and indoors because I don't want them going into the soil and germinating until I've had a chance to renovate the area, put down some new soil and sand. etc.

Also I want to be a bit clearer about planting this year so I'm going to use a grid.

Make that 385. A few more seed pods opened this evening.