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:
Compact Marjoram - a lovely variety that has beautiful, bright foliage and produces pretty flowers that the bees will love! It is also great in Italian dishes!
Thyme 'Caborn Wine and Roses' - this low-growing variety of thyme will be simply covered in local bees during the summer. It flowers with lots of red flowers over a long period and is perfect for planting in hanging baskets or containers.
Thyme 'Snowdrift' - a beautiful, hardy variety of creeping Thyme that produces gorgeous, dainty white 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.
Golden Thyme - you will absolutely adore the beautiful, bright foliage that this variety produces as well as the flowers later in the season. But you will also love seeing bees working away busily among the foliage of this plant on a summer morning.
Lemon Thyme - a lovely, medium-growing variety with lush foliage and beautiful flowers throughout summer. It also has a lovely, sweet Lemon flavour that is fantastic in tea and summer drinks.
Orange Thyme - a beautiful, subtly citrus variety of medium-growing Thyme with vibrant green foliage and hundreds of dainty white flowers that attract the bees in summer.
Thyme 'Pink Chintz' - a gorgeous variety of Thyme with bright foliage and beautiful pink flowers during summer that local bees will enjoy.
Hyssop - a popular and delicious variety in soups and stews, that produces lots of little blue flowers that the bees will love throughout summer.
*We update the plants featured within this collection each week based on stock levels. This collection was last updated on 23/04/2025.
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.