Bell heather attracts bees

This month, places across the UK will turn a purple-pink as bell heather comes into bloom. It likes dry soil habitats, including heathland, open woods and sometimes coastal areas like clifftops. The shrub grows up to 50 centimetres high and its bell-shaped flowers hang in bunches. There are four spikes around the rim of the flower and the leaves are needle-shaped. Bell heather produces lots of sweet nectar, so you’ll often find the flowers humming with insects, including several types of bumblebee and ruby tiger moths. Honeybees make a dark and fragrant honey from its nectar. Bell heather was once used for bedding and to thatch the roofs of houses; the flowers were used to create purple dye.…

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