4 Early Blooming Flowers You Can Plant For Bees

It's the beginning of spring which means that flowers are starting to bloom and pollinators are out once again. If you’re wanting pollinators in your yard this year, now is the best time to attract them to it according to GoodNet.

During cold months, pollinators like bees, moths, butterflies, and birds hibernate. This means that once springtime begins they wake up extremely hungry. It doesn’t matter if you have a whole garden or just a pot, you can help out these pollinators by planting the flowers they love.

Lilac is a shrub that's both beautiful and super easy to grow. These bushes bloom twice a year, first in the start of spring and again in fall. A lot of pollinators including honeybees, hummingbirds, and leafcutter bees are attracted to these flowers.

Peonies have a sweet scent that is known to attract pollinators. They bloom in early spring and create a ton of nectar for pollinators. It's a great pick for your yard if you want to support bees, hummingbirds, and moths.

This is a low-growing plant that would do best planted around the edges of your flower garden. They bloom from March until May which makes them an amazing choice for almost anyone who wants flowers that last a long time. These flowers attract a lot of long tongue insects like butterflies, bees, moths, and bee flies. 

These flowers start blooming in February and last all the way through spring until late summer. Wallflowers are actually one of the best pollinator plants that you can have. They provide nectar throughout two seasons for a lot of great pollinators like honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies, hover flies, moths, and more.

Stop and smell the roses now that spring has arrived. Flowers are one of my favorite things. Our state is teeming with them, and we have one of the best places to purchase them. Charlotte's Farmers Markets are my favorite place to buy flowers locally. Seasonal blooms and a wide variety of choices are always available.

In some cities, you can choose from a wide variety of local flower offerings, while in others, the choices are slim. Thanks to a study done by LawnLove, we can know just where to get the perfect ones. Lawn Love ranked 2022's Best Cities for Local Flowers based on their (fleur)ishing local floral scenes. Based on flower and delivery access, vendor quality, and local demand, they compared nearly 200 cities. Discover where to get high-quality local blooms in North Carolina by checking out the winning city below.