Top tip 1: Create a bumblebee-friendly garden
The first step on the way to a Hummel-friendly garden is to consistently avoid chemicals. You can Bumblebees Only attract successfully if neither pesticides nor artificial fertilizers turn beds or lawns into poison-mined areas. In the second step, give preference to native wild perennials in the planting plan, the hungry bumblebees provide nectar and pollen in abundance. The following overview gives important details on how to attract bumblebees correctly:
- Cure plant diseases with biological preparations or natural remedies (e.g. B. Milk against Apple powdery mildew)
- Fight pests with home remedies (e.g. B. Soft soap solution against aphids)
- weed weed and do not destroy with chemical sprays
- Create compostto produce organic plant fertilizer yourself
- Bee pastures sowing and planting plants for bumblebees
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Forage plants for bumblebees
Bumblebees are crazy about native wildflowers, herbs and flowering trees. If you want to attract bumblebees permanently, these traditional plants should not be missing in the garden:
| Bumblebees forage plants | Botanical name | Location recommendation |
|---|---|---|
| Broad bean | Vicia faba | Vegetable patch |
| Common Columbine | Aquilegia vulgaris | Flowerbed, balcony |
| Blackberry, raspberry | Rubus ssp. | Orchard |
| Sedums | Sedum | Dry stone wall |
| Mullein | Verbascum | Perennial bed |
| lavender | Lavendula | Rock garden |
| Blackthorn | Prunus spinosa | Hedge, enclosure |
| Hawthorn | Crataegus | Cottage garden |
| Sweet peas | Vicia | Facade greening |
Top tip 2: Preserve natural nesting sites
Often there is still ice and snow when bumblebee queens start looking for a suitable location for their small colony. Hobby gardens are now clearly in the lead which can serve with natural nesting sites. These include tree hollows, abandoned mouse nests in the ground, quarry stone walls, mixed flower hedges, dry stone walls and Deadwood hedges. By doing without intensive soil cultivation, erecting natural stone garden walls without joints and piling up dead wood to form a hedge, you can successfully lure bumblebees into your green kingdom.
Top tip 3: build nesting aids for bumblebees
Is there a lack of natural nesting places in the garden? Then give nature a helping hand and build artificial nesting aids to attract bumblebees looking for accommodation. Let the following ideas inspire you:
- Create ground nest caves (great building instructions can be found on wildbienen.de)
- Drill an entrance hole in the flower clay pot, close the bottom hole, fill in nesting material (bark mulch, leaves, chopped shrub cuttings), cover with a heavy saucer, set up protected from rain
- Bird nesting aids hanging and convert them into Hummel nesting boxes (instructions on wildbienen.de)
If you are a beginner who tries to visit bumblebees in the garden, you are on the safe side with ready-made bumblebee nesting boxes. A wide range of tried and tested models is available from specialist retailers. In order to attract bumblebees reliably, self-made or purchased nesting aids must be built no later than 1. March to be ready for occupancy.
Tips
As a balcony gardener, you can easily attract bumblebees with one bee-friendly garden in small format. Plant a box or tub with an adder's head (Echium vulgare), Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris), Honorary award (Veronica), cloves (Dianthus) or comparable wild species, bumblebees do not take long to ask.
