Bee-friendly garden: the best plants, shrubs and herbs
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You can make your garden beautiful and at the same time bee-friendly. We will show you which plants, shrubs and herbs are particularly suitable.
The best plants for a bee-friendly garden
In order to provide the bees with food throughout, the plants should bloom at different times.
- Early bloomers: blue pillows and wood anemones bloom early in the year and provide the bees with plenty of nectar. Liver flowers show their most beautiful side in March and April and are also easy to care for. Colorful wild tulips also attract useful insects in spring. Crocuses and snowdrops look good under trees.
- Summer flowers: The Phacelia with its fragrant, blue flowers is not called "bee friend" for nothing. The plant is very easy to grow from seeds. Delphiniums, cornflowers, summer azaleas and mallows also make your garden bee-friendly. Catnip and comfrey should not be missing in the herb garden.
- Late bloomers: To ensure that bees still find sufficient nectar in your garden in autumn, plant autumn anemones, marigolds and sunflowers. Daisies and autumn asters are also good. Incidentally, ivy is also a good source of food, but it only blooms after eight years.
Herbs, shrubs and trees: these species are popular with bees
Bees also like herbs, shrubs and trees.
- Herbs: You can stock your herb garden richly and spoil bees with it. All coniferous flowers such as lovage, parsley and dill are often visited by bees. Mediterranean herbs such as oregano, rosemary, sage or thyme are just as popular. Borage acts like a bee magnet. Important for all herbs: Always harvest only so much that a part can still bloom and the bees also benefit from it.
- Hedges and shrubs: You and the bees benefit from berry bushes in the garden. Both currants and blackberries are tasty for humans and insects. Black elderberry and cornelian cherry are also popular. Not to be missed are wild roses, from which you can later harvest vitamin-rich rose hips. By the way, we also explain how you process rose hip.
With many bees in the garden, it can happen that one of the animals stings when it feels threatened. That is why in our next post we explain what you should do with a bee sting.