Plant at least three different types of flowers in your bee garden to ensure blooms through as many seasons as possible. This will provide bees and other pollinators with a constant source of food. For example:

- Crocus, hyacinth, borage, calendula, and wild lilac provide enticing spring blooms in a bee garden.

- Bees feast on bee balm, cosmos, echinacea, snapdragons foxglove, and hosta in the summer.

- For fall, zinnias, sedum, asters, witch hazel and goldenrod are late bloomers that will tempt foragers.

Read a guest blog post by Michaela of The Gardener’s Eden about container gardening with herbs and edible flowers for honeybees and their human friends.