It is a worrying situation when the plants that well meaning gardeners are buying to help

bees and other pollinators are treated with the very pesticides that are being blamed as

one of the main causes of the declining bee numbers.

So this page is for beekeepers and gardeners who can offer bee friendly plants and seeds for

sale that are not grown commercially and treated.

For example you may have a excellent stock of snowdrops and be able to spare a few each year or

you have collected seeds from your flowers that others may like to grow.

I will start the list with aconites the early yellowing flowing Eranthis or Winter Aconite that most plant

companies will have on offer both as bulbs and in the green. I think they are better sold in the green just

after they have flowered. They are a great plant to have near your hives as they along with snowdrop offer

an early source of pollen when there isn't much about. Some of you will have good stocks of this plant as

once established it will easily seed itself and multiply.

Aconites - well established flowering plant £5 per plant + postage (posted in the green after flowering) February

Cherry plum seedlings - one or two years old £1 each + postage

Dhalia seeds - twenty fresh seeds collected from my stock each year £2 + postage

Golden rod seedlings 50p each + postage (mixed varieties)

Evening primrose seedlings 50p each + postage