Bee-Friendly Garden: 10 Plants That Attract Animals

Created: 06/29/2022, 14:51

By: Ines Alms

Wild bees are threatened.

You can simply help them by turning your garden or balcony into a bee paradise with popular plants.

Even though almost everyone has been stung by a bee at some point in their lives, you know that they mean you no harm.

On the contrary, people depend on them.

Because without wild and honey bees there would be no fruit, vegetables and flowers.

So that it doesn't get that far, everyone can create a bee paradise in their garden or even on the balcony and attract the animals.

Bee-friendly garden: ten plants that attract the animals

Bees fly on bluebells.

Their pollen and nectar attract the animals into the garden.

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According to the German Nature Conservation Union ("NABU"), the decline in wild bees and other insect species is dramatic: almost half of all bee species assessed in the Red List

or already extinct, only about 37 percent are considered harmless.

This is partly due to the fact that habitats and food supplies for bees are becoming increasingly scarce.

And not everything that people like in landscape design or in the garden is also enthusiastic for bees and other insects that need to be protected.

For example, bees do not like double flowers and varieties that have been overly modified by breeding because

.

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A bee paradise of bluebells, lantana and herbs

But with these plants you are doing everything right with the bees, because they attract the animals to your garden or balcony almost like a magnet:

• Marigold (Calendula officinalis)

• Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)

• Sun Wings (Helipterum)

• Bluebells (Campanula)

• Yarrow (Achillea)

• Shrub basil (Ocimum basilicum) and other flowering kitchen herbs

• Lantana (Lantana)

• Wallflower (Erysimum cheiri)

• Asters (Asteraceae)

• Ivy (Hedera helix)

When choosing flowers, it also makes sense that flowers are available from spring to autumn.

It is particularly easy to spread a regional seed mixture for a

in the garden , which then also attracts many butterflies.

Not only bee-friendly plants are important for the preservation of the species: Providing nesting sites is also very helpful, for example in the form of piles of

- tidying up the garden is therefore overrated from a natural point of view and contributes less to biodiversity.