5 melliferous flowers to promote pollination

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those that produce nectar and pollen in sufficient quantities for bees.

The latter transform the nectar into honey and voluntarily pollinate these plants to ensure their own survival.

Here are five flowers renowned for their honey-producing virtues which promote biodiversity in the garden and in the ecosystem.

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sainfoin

Sainfoin is reputed to be a green manure.

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This herbaceous perennial of European origin from the fabaceae family is reputed to be a green manure when it grows in neutral, poor or calcareous soil and in the sun.

When its purple-pink flowers bloom in the form of clusters during the summer season, bees and other insects come to land there delicately to feed.

Hardy and known for its rapid growth which can peak up to 80 centimeters, the sainfoin loosens the soil.

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blueberry

Cornflower is defined by the color blue.

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Annual or biennial plant of the

family, the blueberry, also called wild blueberry, blueberry of the fields or "breakglass" is defined by the blue color, from light to dark, of its edible flowers in capitulum and the bracts at the ends black, when they make their entry on the front of nature, between the middle of spring and the end of summer, according to the region and the climate.

The blueberry grows particularly in Europe, Asia and North America, in well-drained soil exposed to sunlight to reach 1.10 meters in height.

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Willowherb

Willowherb grows in temperate zones in calcareous, clayey or stony soil.

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From the Onagraceae family and native to Europe and North America, this herbaceous perennial with blue-green deciduous foliage grows in temperate zones in calcareous, clayey or stony soil, in sun or partial shade.

Nicknamed "flowery wicker", grass of fire or laurel of Saint Antoine, from flowering, with four petals per flower arranged in clusters, between May and September, the willowherb takes on a slender appearance with its imposing ears which can measure two meters, in white, pink or purple hues.

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Willowherb has

anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antioxidant properties.

The poppy

The poppy needs plenty of sunlight.

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Coming from the Near East, the poppy is an annual plant, which belongs to the Papaveraceae family.

It grows in all types of well-drained soil provided it receives plenty of sunshine.

During the summer, appear among a long hairy stem (between 20 and 70 centimeters) and toothed leaves, simple flowers with four red petals marked with a black spot and a globose pistil.

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Sage

Sage is an edible perennial or bushy annual herb.

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Belonging to the labiaceae, sage, which comes mainly from southern Europe and North Africa, is an edible aromatic perennial or bushy annual plant also called sage officinalis or common sage.

It finds its place in a well-drained, light, sandy or poor soil and whose growth needs sun, in order to collect its fragrant evergreen or semi-evergreen leaves throughout the year.

Its height can climb up to 70 centimeters.