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Annuals:
Cornflower: A quick and easy annual with blue flowers, quite tall at about 90cm (3ft)
Corn Cockle: The single purple-pink flowers are a good food source for butterflies and moths.
Corn Marigold: Bright yellow flowers and attractive foliage.
Corn Chamomile: A white daisy flower. All the daisies seem to be popular with bees.
Common Poppy: The Flander's or Field Poppy, with familiar red flowers.
Perennials:
Knapweed: Purple thistle-like flowers (but without the prickles). Attractive to bees when in flower, in the Winter goldfinch and other birds will feast on the seedheads.
Ox-Eye daisy: Another white daisy, prolific flowers in midsummer which the bees love.
Red Campion: Attractive pink flowers, with a long trumpet which usually indicates it is pollinated by butterflies and moths, as their mouthparts are long enough to reach the nectar. However bees have learnt to get to the nectar by nibbling a hole in the side of the trumpet.
Viper's Bugloss: A biennial, but it will flower in the first year if sown early. As well as having very ornamental blue flowers, this plant is probably the best bee plant you can grow. It will self seed from year to year if happy.
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