For pollinators

A beautiful cultivar with generous quantities of large yellow flowers over a very long period from summer to autumn. For warm sunny borders, in pots, or greenhouse in cold gardens.

A rarely offered slightly tender perennial for a sunny border. Long flowering and good for bees!

(Aloe pole-evansii, Aloe beniensis.) An Aloe from Uganda with beautiful red flowers in winter. It is a smaller Aloe and forms nice clumps. The leaves are long, narrow, bright green and edged with small teeth. Plant in full sun to semi-shade.

Rarely offered, this US native produces masses of pale mauve - pink flowers very late in the year, a much appreciated source of food for bees and butterflies.

(Previously Aloe aristata.)

A fairly hardy quick growing succulent with neat rosettes of green leaves with soft white spines. Spikes of pink flowers in spring.

Long arching panicles of dark violet flowers from September to October. For fertile, well drained soil in full sun. Deadhead after flowering then cut hard back in spring. Adored by butterflies.

An orange flowered selection of the yellow flowered species. Spreading clumps of narrow fleshy leaves topped with spikes of small orange flowers in spring and summer. Hardy in mild gardens.

Spectacular, large, deep purple-blue, pendant tubular flowers from early-mid summer.

A tender perennial with variegated leaves & pale blue flowers in summer. Grow in a greenhouse or similar all year, or pop into a hanging basket for the summer.

Compact long-flowering Canna with bright red, orange or yellow flowers all summer, for pots & tropical bedding schemes. Rich moist, well drained soil in full sun.

A fantastic jungly plant (musifolia = banana leaves!) with large green leaves with red-tinged margins & central rib. Good moist soil in sun, best bedded out for the summer.

A beautiful species of modest size, Fresh green leaves and red and yellow flowers from summer to autumn. Best lifted and kept frost free in winter.

A very tall species with matching large leaves, topped with tubular orange-red flowers. Best in a sheltered sunny spot.

A vigourous South African species with heads of pendulous tubular flowers

Lovely tall annual, growing to around 90cm, with fine feathery foliage topped by white daisies with frilly petals in summer. Loved by Bees and Butterflies.