Garden full of bees

Half an hour in the garden this afternoon, which was `buzzing’.  I’ve got a lot of purple plants in flower at the moment, which are very attractive to bees.  I originally thought this might be a male cuckoo bee, but maybe it’s a male buff-tailed as it has a very long face. I think today it was the overall colour and the effect of the plants that made me choose this image, which hasn’t been cropped.