Flowers and Bees!

 

 A few flowers that according to online references, seem to be attractive to by bees:

 

 

Honeybees and many native species do important work in our orchards and gardens by pollinating up to one-third of every bite of food we eat.

 

 

Bees need nectar, which has sugars for energy, and pollen, a “food” rich in proteins and fats, so choose plants that provide these.

 

 

Crocus and hyacinths in spring, zinnias in summer, and asters in autumn. Native plants and wildflowers are also excellent to attact bees to you garden.

 

For Western Gardens Recomended flowers

 

Liatris, penstemon, gaillardia, California poppy, corn poppy, lupine, coreopsis, cleome, Clarkia amoena (Farewell-to-Spring), bluehead or blue field gilia, nemophila, California bluebell, sage, sunflower, Mexican hat, Shasta daisy, African daisy.

 

Attracting bees to you garden!

California Desert Flowers!

 California's deserts cover 25,000 square miles of southeastern California. The best time to view the wildflowers is always right after a good rain. When the deserts have received a soaking, you have a window of four to five days in which to see the blooms at their very best.

 

California's deserts encompass most of Riverside, San Diego, San Bernadino and Imperial counties.

 

 
 

 The high desert of California is part of the larger Mojave desert; and the low desert (also called the Colorado desert) is part of the larger Sonoran Desert.

 

 The wildflowers of the southern California deserts bloom as early as mid-February at lower elevations such as the areas surrounding Palm Springs and well into summer at higher elevations in the Mojave Desert.

 

 

 Joshua Tree National Park encompasses parts of both the low and the high desert which means that you have the opportunity to view wildflowers that grow in both settings.

 

 

http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca.html
http://www.wikipedia.com
Southern California's Wildflowers of the Low and High Deserts