The Big Bee Buffet Collection
Turn a sunny corner of your garden into a feast for pollinators with The Bee Buffet Herb Plant Collection — nine beautiful herbs chosen for the flowers they produce and the visiting bees, hoverflies and other pollinating insects they can attract.
Herbs are some of the hardest-working plants you can grow. They're useful in the kitchen, wonderfully fragrant and attractive in their own right, but allow them to flower and something rather special happens. What was simply a herb garden can suddenly become a busy feeding ground filled with colour, movement and the gentle hum of visiting bees.
Together, these nine plants create something that's both beautiful and useful. Plant them in a sunny border, group them in containers around a patio or create a dedicated herb garden where different varieties can flower through the season.
And perhaps most importantly, don't be too quick to reach for the scissors. While we often grow herbs for their leaves, allowing at least some of your plants to flower is what really transforms this collection into a buffet.
This collection includes:
- Woolly Thyme – A beautiful low-growing thyme forming soft, silvery mats of foliage. Its creeping habit makes it perfect for the front of borders, gravel gardens and containers.
- Foxley Thyme – Attractive cream-and-green variegated foliage gives this thyme year-round interest, followed by flowers that provide an additional attraction for visiting pollinators.
- Rosemary – An evergreen garden favourite producing aromatic foliage and delicate flowers that are particularly valuable to bees when the plant is in bloom.
- Sparkling Bright Thyme – A wonderfully colourful thyme combining decorative variegated foliage with the pollinator appeal of thyme flowers.
- Common Thyme – One of the great traditional herbs. Allow it to flower and its clusters of tiny blooms can become wonderfully busy with bees and other insects.
- Thyme Tabor – An aromatic, spreading thyme that brings another texture and flowering opportunity to a pollinator-friendly herb garden.
- Chives – Their spectacular purple flower heads aren't just beautiful — they're also extremely attractive to bees. An easy way to bring both colour and culinary usefulness into the garden.
- Compact Marjoram – A neat, aromatic herb producing clusters of small flowers that can become a magnet for pollinating insects during the warmer months.
- Roman Chamomile – A charming low-growing herb with pretty, daisy-like flowers, bringing a relaxed cottage-garden feel to the collection.
Nine beautiful herbs. Hundreds of tiny flowers. One delicious buffet for the bees.
We update the plants featured within this collection each week based on stock levels. This collection was last updated on 19/08/2026.
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.