Bee Forage Garden: Bloom Succession & Nectar-Reward Foraging

This garden lays out the twelve herbs and cottage-garden plants a UK bee-friendly border relies on — lavender, sage, rosemary, thyme, mint, oregano, borage, echium, verbena, sedum, phacelia and a dahlia bed — each blooming on its own real seasonal window. Instanced bees continuously choose where to forage by weighing each currently-blooming plant's nectar/pollen reward, so the plants rated "outstanding" in field guides (borage, echium, phacelia, lavender) visibly pull the most traffic, while a double-flowered dahlia — bred with extra petals that block its own nectaries — is barely visited at all next to its single-flowered form. Scrub the day-of-year slider to watch forage succession unfold across the season, from rosemary's early spring flowers through the summer glut to sedum's late-autumn finish.