Light blue bell-shaped flowers which attract the Harebell Carpenter Bee. This tiny bee rests inside the flowers overnight or when the weather is wet or cold. The males wait for females inside the flowers and mating takes place there.
Pink buds are borne in summer opening to a vivid blue. It provides food for a range of insects, including Buff-tailed and Red-tailed Bumblebees, Large Skipper and Painted Lady butterflies, Honeybees and Red Mason bees.
Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
Bright lilac-blue flowerheads which are very popular with nectar feeding insects. Species of scabious were used to treat scabies and other afflictions of the skin including sores caused by bubonic plague.
Small Scabious (Scabiosa columbaria)
Produces large light blueish purple flowers which attract bees, butterflies, moths and birds. The Small Scabious Mining Bee is particularly dependent on its pollen.
Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
Blueish or deep-violet flowers which produce nectar and pollen for bees and many other types of pollinating insects. It is believed to have healing properties and is used in herbal medicine.
