💛🖤💛 The hairy mountain mint is blooming! We already love it because of the minty leaves.. but now we have more flowers for the bees!.. and we LOVE our pollinators. 💛🖤💛

The flowers are very attractive to many kinds of insects, including honeybees, cuckoo bees, leaf-cutting bees, Halictid bees, Halictid cuckoo bees, thread-waisted wasps, the Great Golden Digger Wasp, the Black Grasshopper Wasp, bee wolves, paper wasps, Eumenine wasps, Syrphid flies, bee flies, thick-headed flies, Tachinid flies, butterflies, and skippers. 🦋