13 great Pollinator-friendly Plants for Allotments

If you want to help pollinators here are some great ideas of what to plant for them on your allotment or in your vegetable garden.
I grow all the plants in the video on my allotment for years and can really recommend them.They look pretty, are easy to grow and apart from some deadheading look mainly after them self. Pollinators love the flowers and by attracting them to your plot you will get better pollination of your fruit and vegetables as well.
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Written in Ink by Kai Engel
Shining Dawn by Kai Engel
Interlude-In Anxious Shadows by Kai Engel

[@PaulOutdoors]

Wonderful. Thank you for the inspiration. 🐝👍😊

[@AllderHouse]

Loved the music. Thank you

[@micksmixxx]

Sorry I'm so late 'coming to the party' but I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for making this video. Although I do feel that I'm 'doing my bit' for Nature in helping out the willing destruction of our pollinators, I do wish to do more. I don't have an allotment as I'm disabled, but I do have wild areas of my garden. (My wife keep on at me to "get rid of those weeds", but to me, those "weeds" aren't really weeds, they're simply plants that aren't normally associated with 'modern day' gardens.) I have to get my brother to get me into the garden in my wheelchair in order for me to photograph what I'm seeing there, and I'm always amazed at what I find. By the way, you've just got yourself a new subscriber. 😉

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you very much for your comment. It is nice you try to do your bit for pollinators as well. I have a lot of wildflowers on my allotment which other people who like more conventional gardens would call weeds, but as long as I like them they can stay and most are great for pollinators as you discovered as well. I will try to make more videos this year as soon as the gardening year gets going. I have not seen many solitary bees so far this year but have seen plenty of bumblebees (mostly queens) which is nice. They seem to like my apricot tree which is in full flower at the moment.

[@micksmixxx]

@@MyWildlifeAllotment I look forward to seeing any more videos that you upload.

[@adelfavillanueva5817]

Wow beautigul garden

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@Attikisses]

A fantastic video....thank you

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@Selendela]

Wow ! Wonderful and beautiful flowers, the music is so relaxing and soothing, thank you.

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@charlesbale8376]

Very helpful information.

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you. I am planning to make some more videos as there are lots of others plants which are good for pollinators.

[@elpequenoparaiso3635]

Nice great job in your garden 🪴💕🪴

[@badassbees3680]

Pollinator Week! This was very nice!!

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@fcjcheah]

You have avery beautiful garden.Thanks for the tips!

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@prisillaspace]

Thank you so much. Very informative. :) I love your allotment, how it's interplanted with many flowers and vegetables...I am planning to create one. :) from Texas.

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-) Hope you have fun creating your own space with lots of flowers, and food to eat.

[@swiattrzmieli2057]

Waw super piękne trzmiele i inne owady like dałem wcześniej a subskrybe teraz 👍🤝🙋‍♂️

[@badassbees3680]

Thanks for sharing everybody should watch this

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@badassbees3680]

@@MyWildlifeAllotment your very welcome good job

[@veronicawhite398]

Wonderful!

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@MariaGomez-ip5ri]

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[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-) Gracias!

[@Happykeeping]

Woww.. Thank you for the ideas. and info.. hoping to be connected with you ;)

[@chipfriday8166]

Well laid out, video helpful too. Liked to see pollinators on the flowers!. I'm in north Texas and am starting a bee business.

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-) Good luck with your business. I will do some more videos from my allotment next year, also with more pollinator plants and how to encourage them.

[@wendybachman6224]

This is a lovely video, thanks for making it! This morning I saw a honey bee & a bumble bee both collecting pollen on one of my Iceland Poppy blooms at the same time - they kept bumping into each other, flying up a little, then landing again to bump another time...It was pretty comical, but they did not want to abandon that pollen!

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you. This sounds quite funny, the bees were too keen to collect the pollen to pay attention to where they were flying. Poppy always seem to be very popular with bees, I grow lots of different poppies now, the flowers are so pretty as well.

[@nuruzzaman4893]

@@MyWildlifeAllotment Could you possibly send me some Icelandic Poppy seeds?

[@georgealderson4424]

Thank you. A very interesting little video. I think sea holly is another suitable plant too?

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Yes there are a lot more suitable plants, including sea holly which is great for many different pollinators. If you plant something with simple flowers which has not been bred intensively you cannot go much wrong.

[@georgealderson4424]

@@MyWildlifeAllotment Thank you. It's on my list!

[@lindavincent2995]

Thank you . More please

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Will do some more videos next year, have planted lots more flowers on my allotment so hope it will be a paradise for pollinators.

[@mckima1158]

Thank you, music background is nice.

[@The.Ghost.of.Tom.Joad.]

Thanks for the vid. inspirational and informative. I'd add yarrows, candy tuft, zinnias, lobelia, sweet alyssum, single-flowering French marigolds, echinacea, and daisies to the mix, but that's just me. We've also had great success with lupine and snapdragon. Oh. And dill and cilantro. I let all my dill go to seed every year. And whether I want it or not, about half of my cilantro bolts during the summer heat. Bees love them both.

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Yes you are right there are many more great plants for pollinators. Maybe I do another video, part 2, with more flowers for pollinators sometime.

[@Jorg05111980]

Best plants here in zone 8b are in spring pulmonaria and winter heather (erica carnea), followed early summer by berneris julianae, catmint then next comes sage and Astilbe. In summer look for viper's bugloss, English Lavender, bush liguster, wild marjorie (origanum vulgare), agastache, and in late summer calamintha nepeta and periscaria. I cannot grow trees in my small garden, but willow and apple are the best, and for (late) summer Liguster Japonicum

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Nice selection of plants, pretty and easy to grow :-) I am currently transforming my allotment into a forest garden but with lots of open areas for sun-loving perennials and annual vegetables. I hope that with including a tree layer there is even more space and food for wildlife (and food for myself as well of course).

[@swiattrzmieli2057]

Nice Video :) 😃🙋‍♂️🇵🇱

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@sabbiragroservice8897]

Thanks for your video.... This is Sabbir Sabbir bin Ashraf form Bangladesh , Department of Agriculture, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman science and Technology University.

[@Cielo2622]

Very informative..

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you :-)

[@luciobrazil007]

I have new ideas now , thank you. I notice heleniums attract many honeybees in my area

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Yes, heleniums are nice plants for pollinators too. Have planted some now and bees really liked them :-)

[@garysmith7476]

Beautiful video, Beautiful garden . with region is this in

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Thank you. My allotment is in Oxfordshire in South England.

[@Time2ski27]

Thank you. loved the music as well. Have never planted the vipers Bugloss before. Can you comment.

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Yes Vipers bugloss is a nice plant for pollinators, especially for bumblebees. It is biennial so grows a rosette one year and the flower the next. Best to sow directly were you want it to flower as it is difficult to transplant.

[@illustriousbadger1065]

@@MyWildlifeAllotment Great video - Do you always find this with Vipers Bugloss? I had some in a 'bumblee mix last year that flowered straight away. However it was in a pot and totally overcrowded. Thanks.

[@popdartan7986]

Dramatic music

[@junreykista]

#cuyYgi galing kumuha

[@nuruzzaman4893]

Hi, you may remember I commented a few months ago on some clips of yours, and you said you may be able to share some plants if you thinned out. I'm happy to pay for you to post any of it. Or come down to Oxfordshire (?), if that's correct. Kind regards Nuruz

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

I had a look around and because it was such an extremely dry year here many plants have not grown as well as usual. I don`t think I can divide many plants this winter so might not be worth sharing anything. Hopefully next year will be better. You could send me a reminder so I don`t forget about it.

[@nuruzzaman4893]

@@MyWildlifeAllotment Don't worry at all. It's so cool that you even responded. Many thanks and all the best.

[@zombiemanhasbe4119]

I had no water supply for the bumblebees and butterflies so I used a frisbee tilted to the side so they can land on it and drink water

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Great idea! Any water source, as long as it is not too deep, is good for pollinators.

[@amazingdany]

I put down a shallow tray, filled it water and an egg carton for pollinators to land on, located in a very sunny location with mint nearby. The only bugs coming in for a sip were... yellow jacket wasps. I never saw anything else!

[@friendsofmashpeenwr736]

where is this garden? State? Thank you. I noticed a rare butterfly on the borage: Karner Blue I believe

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

The garden is in the South of the UK. Have not seen a butterfly visiting the borage, only honeybees and bumblebees. We don`t have Karner Blue butterflies here in UK. I have only seen Common Blue on my allotment so far.

[@nuruzzaman4893]

We've so many bumblebees this year with the sunflowers, phacelia, cosmos but rarely see any butterflies or honeybees here in Birmingham UK.

[@CluelesssMe4080]

This video said borage is a perennial that is incorrect

[@RichardsAllotment]

For some of your flowers you say sow under cover, do you have a green house that you use?

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Yes, I have a greenhouse but most of the plants which have to be sown under cover can be started on a bright windowsill indoors.

[@celtgunn9775]

Urban Pollinators Ok, I was wondering what you meant by "Under Cover" Now I understand what you mean. But I grow Calendula in Zone 5a easily just by sowing the seeds. Many of these you say to grow under cover do just fine here and we don't have an extremely long growing season. Just thought I should say something about it. I do love the video, you did a spectacular job, the music was amazing.

[@farmerHonorable]

Is the pollen of rice plants is good for bees?

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

I don`t know, but as rice plants are wind pollinated (as all grasses) I think bees will not be very interested in the pollen.

[@robertsmithshair4199]

music was a bit dramatic 😂

[@MyWildlifeAllotment]

Hopefully not too much :-)

[@DownloadAMusical]

Gosh, I found the music rather off-putting! But thanks for the info.

[@LarryDickman1]

That is why they made a mute key. Quick whining and go plant something. :)