Not popular with bees?

Why isn't bud heather useful for bees?

If the heather buds stay closed, deliver no food for bees. The insects literally have no access to the flower. Since the buds are visually appealing and make a fresh impression for a long time, the heather with its summer flowering time, often deliberately bred into a bud heather. This development is extremely bad for the supply of bees. If you kill the insects with a bee pasture so you'd better go to another one heather variety evade.

Which heather is better for bees than common heather?

Use heather with you open flowers and one useful heyday. Some types of heather flower in late summer. With this

heyday give bees a large-scale food supply at a time when there are otherwise no large fields in bloom. This is an important advantage that heather offers to bees. With snow heath (Erica carnea) there are also varieties that flower at the beginning of the year. Also in the period from January to April the food supply is extremely useful for the insects

Which heather provides food for bees?

With the wild form the heather you can provide food for honey bees and wild bees. The flowers of this hardy Heathers have not yet been bred into common heather. The plant bears open flowers that are accessible to insects and also promise good nectar value. The wild form of common heather also puts a beautiful pink to violet color in your garden during the flowering period.