The Big Bee Buffet Collection
What do you get?
A specially selected collection of nine varieties of herbs that the bees will really enjoy while visiting your growing space!
Bees are incredible, useful and hardworking creatures that do so much to enhance our environment. They are essential to human existence, in fact! Sadly they are increasingly deprived of sources of pollination – especially in urban areas. There are many varieties of herb plant that the bees absolutely love, and are excellent sources of pollen. These herbs are also very tasty and smell amazing too.
In a day and age in which low-maintenance gardening and paved drives are the norm for most of us, planting up a few pots of herbs on our front drive or paved back garden can do so much to help the plight of the bees. This collection is for you to enjoy. But mainly the bees!
The flavours that the bees are going to be enjoying:
Lavender Rosea - a beautiful variety of Lavender that produces rose-coloured flowers throughout summer. The bees will love these flowers as much as you will enjoy watching them work.
Creeping Lemon Thyme - a beautiful low-growing variety of Thyme with evergreen foliage that produces bright pink flowers during late spring and early summer. They will be covered in bees!
Creeping Red Thyme - this low-growing variety of thyme will be simply covered in local bees during the summer. It flowers over a long period and is perfect for planting in hanging baskets or containers.
Lavender Munstead - a beautiful, hardy variety of Lavender that produces gorgeous purple coloured flowers throughout the summer. Definitely popular with bees.
Rosemary - easy to grow, reliable, and a great source of flowering for bees. They love the pale blue flowers and you will love the scent as you brush by this plant. You will receive an upright Rosemary within the officinalis family (Mrs Jessop, Upright etc).
Thyme - you will absolutely adore the beautiful, subtle flowers that this variety produces. But you will also love seeing bees working away busily among the foliage of this plant on a summer morning. It's so special and inspiring.
Thyme Pink Ripple - a lovely, low-growing variety with vibrant foliage and beautiful pink flowers within the foliage throughout summer.
Thyme 'Caborn Wine and Roses' - a low-growing variety of Thyme, with attractive, bright flowers that look perfect in a hanging basket.
Lavender Vera - gorgeous variety of Lavender with silvery foliage and beautiful flowers during summer that local bees will enjoy.
*We update the plants featured within this collection each week based on stock levels. This collection was last updated on 05/03/2025.
How big are the plants?
All herbs are supplied in 9cm pots. They will be freshly picked for your order. The condition of the plants is our primary concern when fulfilling your order. The foliage will differ in size throughout the season and may be clipped prior to dispatch. The herbs are not soft grown and have spent time in unheated conditions. They are a product designed not just to last a few days but to be grown on by yourselves and supply flavour for months to come.