Honesty

The colourful plant Honesty is a good source of early spring nectar for the bees. It is also admired by flower arrangers for its semi translucent disc shape seed heads.

If I see any seed heads they fairy rapidly get shaken out over any bare soil that I can find in the area.

Over the years I have managed to get Honesty to spread quite well in my locality.

Its cheerful mauve colour goes very well with bluebells and daffodils but this year the bluebells have not yet appeared.