Bee Attractor

[Mark Durham]

Would anyone be kind enough to identify the bush in the photo. It attracts bees like nothing I've previously seen, having 20 plus of the little fellas around it at any one time.

Thank you for your time........Mark.

[Snadger]

Looks like a cotoneaster of some description?

[coreopsis]

I don't know the name,we had one in the garden but ripped it off-yes,they attracted insects but mainly wasps and flies.Never saw a bee around this bush and there's no shortage of bees here.

[digthatchick]

My guess is Cotoneaster horizotalis - it should be fairly easy to tell - this type is deciduous, (leaves fall in Autumn) has red leaves in Autumn and red berries, and has no thorns unlike a Pyracantha. The flower buds are pink giving white flowers which in some areas attract many bees.

[WrexTheDragon]

Just dug one of them up.

Never seen many bees arround it, lots of flowers.

[BFG]

I want one!

[BilboWaggins]

Cotoneaster - lovely family of shrubs, those little white flowers will become tiny berries in the autumn, much loved by many birds.

We have a couple of HUGE overgrown Cotoneaster Cornuba which must be coppiced this autumn but I am leaving them until the birds have had the fruit. Right now, walking under them (they are 25' high) is wonderful - absolutely full of bees.

[Comfreyfan]

I'm not very confident with plant identification, but it does look like my Escallonia - mine has small red flowers (there's also a pink one) and the bees love it. It's just finishing flowering so it's ready for it's annual hack back. It's evergreen and if you prune it back it grows twice as big!

[Mac]

I've got a hedge that looks like that along the front of my house, so thank you for the identification. As for it attracting bees - it hums all day long is so full of them!

[FoxHillGardener]

I think it loks like escallonia too - does the folliage smell sweet, kind of fruity when crushed?

[Mark Durham]

Thank you

Many thanks for all your replies. The foliage does not have any particular smell when crushed, so I cannot help things along from that perspective. But once again, thank you for your help,

Mark.

[seasprout]

It is not An Escallonia, It IS definitely a cotoneaster, but not Horizontalis.

Will have a search about and get back to you.!

[seasprout]

I'm confident its a Cotoneaster glaucophyllus.

Used in hedging, drought resistant and noted for attracting wildlife.

Evergreen and a major weed in parts of Australia.