The first blackthorn fruits, called sloes, are forming in hedgerows. Sloes can be made into jam and wine, popularly known as sloe gin. 

Cardoons, or globe artichokes, a cultivated perennial plant, is attractive to bees and butterflies. 

Another attractive plant for pollinators is achillea both as a cultivated perennial (above) and growing wild, when it is known as yarrow, which is white, or, less commonly, as woundwort.