Mix of Flowers for Bees and Pollinators

An assortment of annual flowers dedicated to pollinators. This mix will enhance harvests of fruits, vegetables, and honey, while protecting the environment. These plants provide honeybees, bumblebees, carpenter bees, and butterflies with a good source of nectar and pollen. The seeds are suitable for cultivation in ordinary soil and require very little maintenance. Broadcast the seeds directly in place in spring. Choose a sunny spot, in well-loosened and prepared soil. The seeds are of 100% French origin.

This mix consists of 20 species of fast-growing, hardy, and easy-to-grow annual plants. They flower 6 to 8 weeks after sowing. Spread out the flowering by staggering the sowing every month, from March to June, on several plots. Some species are easily naturalised by spontaneous seedlings in ordinary, well-drained soil. The size of the plants varies between 40 and 70cm ((16 and 18in) in height.

The mix includes: knapweed, barbel, chrysanthemum, varied day beauty, cosmos, yellow dwarf sunflower, lavatera, petunia, rudbeckia, zinnia.

This mixture also attracts beneficial organisms such as lacewings, hoverflies, and ladybugs, and pollinators (hymenoptera, bees, hoverflies, bumblebees, carpenter bees, lepidoptera, etc.) of the main vegetable or fruit crops. This will optimise yield. This mix will be particularly useful to gardeners with beehives.

Flower meadows are beautiful. They bloom throughout summer, reduce mowing, promote biodiversity, and grow almost without care. Water if the weather is very dry. Mow 10 to 20cm (4 to 8in) from the ground in autumn.