Plant Identification Please?

[HM Honey]

Can anyone identify the following plant for me please? the main bush/shrub was covered in bees.

 

[enrico]

No picture!
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[HM Honey]

managed to get it on now Enrico....lol

 

[alldigging]

Hebe 'White Wand' ?

 

[YorkshireBees]

Looks like some kind of Hebe to me. Only a guess though.

 

[HM Honey]

Hebe 'White Wand' ?

Thanks alldigging....That's definitely the one. There must have been literally 100-200 bees on it...(bumbles and honeys) so its obviously popular with them.

 

[YorkshireBees]

Thanks alldigging....That's definitely the one. There must have been literally 100-200 bees on it...(bumbles and honeys) so its obviously popular with them.

A lot of Hebe's are. Just bought one for my back garden after the neighbours died off over the cold winter we had a couple of years back!

 

[HM Honey]

A lot of Hebe's are. Just bought one for my back garden after the neighbours died off over the cold winter we had a couple of years back!

We have recently moved and I have managed to talk the wife round to letting me plant bee friendly shrubs in in the borders of the gardens (despite her not liking bees....lol), so I am looking for good perennial evergreen shrubs that will give a nice selection of colours and not need lots of work to look after...

 

[alldigging]

We have recently moved and I have managed to talk the wife round to letting me plant bee friendly shrubs in in the borders of the gardens (despite her not liking bees....lol), so I am looking for good perennial evergreen shrubs that will give a nice selection of colours and not need lots of work to look after...

Mahonia!

 

[HM Honey]

Mahonia!

There's no need to be Rude.....

 

[alldigging]

There's no need to be Rude.....

It could have been worse if I'd said (orange) balls!
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/2453/Buddleja-globosa/Details
That one looks a lovely plant.

 

[Toffeesmum]

There's no need to be Rude.....

Lol that's soooooooo funny!!

Why not create a lovely herb garden, with lots of thyme, marjoram etc, once flowering the bees go nuts of it and you can cut the herbs for 'aforementioned' wife for the kitchen???

 

[HM Honey]

It could have been worse if I'd said (orange) balls!
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/2453/Buddleja-globosa/Details
That one looks a lovely plant.

Have you been looking through my windows ????

 

[alldigging]

Have you been looking through my windows ????

Oh was it you who said about it the other day?
I'd love one but him indoors really hates buddleahs cos they grow like mad.

 

[NickDub]

Ceanothus - v pop with my bees - can be a bit nesh if we get a cold winter when they are young.

 

[DulwichGnome]

It could have been worse if I'd said (orange) balls!
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/2453/Buddleja-globosa/Details
That one looks a lovely plant.

I have one of those, Buddleja globosa that is. The bees love it but it only flowers for two weeks and grows about a meter a year so takes a bit of room.

Mike