David Austin Vs Hybrid Tea Roses

There’s lots of people these days who are purposely choosing flowering plants that are particularly nourishing to bees. I noticed long ago that most bee species do not get beyond the petals of the few varieties of tea roses I grow and spend most of their there time on my Zinnias, Sunflowers, butterfly bushes, mint flowers, perennial arugula flowers crocus flowers and so on. It brings me true joy when I see a dozen species of pollinating bees and flies partying on one, beautiful flowering plant.

They don’t like narcissus either but I still grow some just as I grow tea roses. However, if you grow a variety of tea rose that seems more accommodating to bees I’d love to know of it.