The white flowers are decorative and provide nectar and pollen for the honey bee.

The small garden houses many flowering plants that provide nectar for the butterflies and a food source for the caterpillars.

The flowers provide pollen and nectar to honey bees in early spring.

Its flowers provide abundant nectar for insects.

Garberia provides nectar for a wide variety of native bees.

Other food sources are the buds of young leaves, and flowers which provide nectar and pollen.

Some plants which can help provide nectar in this gap are Cotoneaster and the closely related Pyracantha.

Its flowering stem provided both edible nectar and props for shelters.

Milkweed, for example, provides nectar for adults of 40 butterfly species.

For hummingbirds the relationship is to the seasonally flowering species providing nectar.