Bee-friendly Plants

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Flowers for bees are easy to care for, provide bees and other insects with nectar and also look beautiful. Before you simply plant wildly on it, there are a few points to consider, so that especially the endangered wild bees actually have something of the bloom.

Bee-friendly plants are unfilled plants

Stuffed plants are certain cultivated forms in which the flower head is completely covered with petals. This looks particularly nice, but the flowers no longer offer the bees nectar. You should therefore avoid flowers such as chrysanthemums, cultivated roses or filled dahlias. The advantage: Unfilled plants are less maintenance-intensive and also not as susceptible to diseases.

Insects

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Flowers for bees in every season

While domestic flowers are always preferred, it doesn't hurt to plant some flowers that are generally considered to be insect-friendly. However, you should make sure that the food supply is covered from March to October. After all, bees don't only need nectar in summer. It's all in the mix:

spring

Snowdrops, crocuses, primroses, chestnut, cherry, liverwort, lungwort, peony, chestnut, later also lily of the valley and wild garlic

summer

Cosmea, tagetes, raspberry, blackberry, catnip, bee lover, cornflower, mallow and Mediterranean herbs

autumn

Fat hen, coneflower, sun bride, ivy, aster, unfilled dahlias and autumn anemones

Garden care

retreat for wild bees

Help the bees: With an apiary appropriate for the species and the right plants in the garden

If you want to create an entire flower meadow straight away, a similar principle applies: Prefer regional seed mixtures. Only these attract the wild bees at risk.