AT A GLANCE
How to get a perennial bee pasture?
What is a perennial bee pasture?
A perennial bee pasture just needs once sown become and lasts for several years. Thanks to their storage organs, their roots, some frost-hardy plants can stay in the ground over the winter and sprout again the following spring. This is worthwhile for anyone who likes one Create bee pasture want, but don't want to worry about it every year.
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Which plants for a bee pasture are perennial?
To a perennial to sow bee pasture are in this country domestic plants recommended, tolerant of frost and flowers fuller nectar and pollen present over a long period of time. In addition to various trees and shrubs, these perennial candidates have proven particularly successful:
- burnet
- sainfoin
- poppy
- red clover
- wild carrot
- borage
- dyer's chamomile
- Comfrey
- delphinium
- yarrow
- alfalfa
- catnip
When are perennial plants sown for bee pasture?
Most perennial and bee-friendly plants will resist March April and until May at the latest sown. However, it is also possible, although less recommended, to use the seeds for the bee pasture to bring into the ground until October.
What care does a perennial bee pasture need?
Normally, a perennial bee pasture needs little care. Suffice the plants in the fall to cut down or to mow and close when dry water. If your perennial bee pasture is in a bucket or balcony box, you can regularly cut off the flowers of the plants after they wither.
Why doesn't the perennial bee willow bloom?
Many perennial plants that are supposed to serve as bee pasture are still in bloom not in the first year or. shortly after sowing, but first establish themselves with their roots in the ground. In the second year they produce their flowers.
Which plants are unsuitable for a perennial bee pasture?
If you value a perennial bee pasture, you should refrain from annual crops, who say goodbye after just one season and in freeze winter. These include: cornflowers, coriander, corn radish, black cumin, buckwheat, sunflowers, Phacelia and marigolds.
Tip
Annual bee food plants sow themselves
Many merely annual plants considered bee pasture self-seed year after year. You don't need to worry too much here either, you can just let nature take its course. Such plants include, for example, marigolds, Nasturtium, cornflowers and sunflowers.
