Cistus for pollinators?

Dirty Harry

Do bees tend to like cistus? I've noticed they don't tend to have the 'perfect for pollinators' tag but they look like the sort of flowers that would be ideal.

Mother in law has this one which I believe is Alan Fradd and the flowers look fantastic.

Buttercupdays

I have one and the poor thing has been flowering bravely, but it has been so cold, wet and windy that there is hardly a pollinator to be seen anywhere. Hard to say if they like it on evidence therefore, but if the weather was more like summer is supposed to be, (and my bush were bigger, with more flowers to offer) then I am sure it would attract some prospecting insects

My poor Alan Fradd has to live in a pot so that it can be overwintered in the greenhouse. Can't plant it out as past winters have been brutal, but with the climate crisis who knows what they will be like.

Dirty Harry

Anyone else noticed much in the way of bees being drawn to theirs?

Butterfly66

We have a group of three cistus and I didn’t answer immediately as I’ve been trying to remember what the bee activity was like. It’s just occurred to me that if I can’t remember then they probably didn’t get a lot of interest. That’s not to say bees don’t like them but they certainly didn’t attract very many. We do get quite a lot of bees in our garden so do notice the bee “magnets“

Just asked OH, he’s the one who tends to refill the birdbath very near them and he says that he didn’t notice many bees at all

PS ours are the species corbariensis