Bee Friendly Plants for Your North Florida Garden

A bee garden is more than wildflowers - though they are important. Together with our bee plant partners, we look at what plants best attract bees to your north Florida home ecosystem. They shared plants of all shapes and sizes, from trees to shrubs and a couple dozen wildflower species. Trees and shrubs typically bloom earlier in the year, while there are plenty of options for summer and fall wildflowers.

Our bee partners are:

Mark Tancig- Horticulture Extension Agent at the UF/ IFAS Leon County Extension
Elizabeth Georges- co-owner of Native Nurseries of Tallahassee
Lilly Anderson-Messec- North Florida Program Manager for the Florida Native Plant Society

We fit as many plant recommendations into this video as we could, but we have many more, plus more gardening tips, on the WFSU Ecology Blog: https://blog.wfsu.org/blog-coastal-he...

This video was funded by a grant from PBS | Nature, in conjunction with Nature: My Garden of a Thousand Bees.

Support for Nature: My Garden of a Thousand Bees was provided by The Hite Foundation, Bradley L. Goldberg Family Foundation and The Sun Hill Family Foundation in memory of Susan and Edwin Malloy. Series funding for Nature is also made possible in part by the Arnhold Family in memory of Henry and Clarisse Arnhold, The Fairweather Foundation, Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Kathy Chiao and Ken Hao, Charles Rosenblum, Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation, Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust, Leonard and Norma Klorfine, Sandra Atlas Bass, Colin S. Edwards, Gregg Peters Monsees Foundation, Koo and Patricia Yuen, by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers.