How about some Nanking cherry bushes. They are always
covered with frost hardy blooms in my yard. they seem
to bloom before anything else too.
Rob
--- BRosholdt <rosholdt@erols.com> wrote:
> I am looking for good early bee feeding plants to
> give my pollinators
> something to eat, so they'll hang around and
> pollinate my orchard.
>
> I see that the Indian Plum or Oso Berry is early,
> but will it survive in
> Virginia without a lot of coddling? I would rather
> plant edible earlies
> than Pieris, Willows, and Witch Hazels to do the
> trick.
>
> Any suggestions for perennials/shrubs/trees that
> will feed my Blue
> Orchard and Hornfaced bees (Osmia)?
>
> Barbara Rosholdt
> Zone 6c-7a
> and getting a bunch of snow today!
>
>
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