Lavender - not for wasp noses
Lavender has been one of the most valued by humans for thousands of years Fragrant plants. In perfumes, in scented oils, in clothes bags or in the kitchen, the Mediterranean plant has a real classic status. In the form of tea infusions, it has also proven to have a calming, sleep-promoting effect. With its silvery-green, needle-like foliage and deep purple flowers, lavender also has a high decorative value.
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In this respect, lavender is already an attractive garden plant for most people. The practical thing is that wasps, on the other hand, don't like him at all. Its ethereal, somewhat herbaceous-pungent smell is far removed from everything that they prefer due to their nutritional needs, namely primarily sweet things. Therefore, they avoid places where there is an intense smell of lavender.
Our advantages and disadvantages for the wasps at a glance:
- For us a pleasant fragrance
- Flowers can e.g. B. can be used for clothes bags or for the kitchen
- High jewelry value
- For wasps repellent odor
Favorable flowering time
A great advantage that lavender has in its function as a wasp repeller is its flowering time, which falls precisely at the peak of the wasp population. From July it unfolds its flowers and can then serve well around the terrace in abundance. With a Mediterranean-style bed, which you can equip with several lavender bushes or like a hedge border, create a romantic and at the same time wasp-poor zone for relaxing Garden stays.
It is also practical that lavender is hardy. So you don't have to worry about wasp repellent planting every year.
Important: use scents
When buying lavender bushes that are to be used specifically against wasps, you must of course be careful to use scented varieties. the Lavender varieties with the highest content of essential oils and accordingly also the most intense fragrance are the real lavender, also called scented lavender, and the great Speik. Their botanical names are Lavandula angustifolia or Lavandula officinalis and Lavandula latifolia.
Also effective as an oil
You don't want to or can't plant lavender for reasons of taste or space? No problem, because you can of course use the lavender scent in another form. For example in the form of scented oil, which you let evaporate in a scented light while dining in the garden. A practical side effect is that the flame also keeps the insects away.
Another way of using lavender oil is to put some of it in water and spray it over a water disperser.
And lavender oil helps against wasp plagues in another way: Because its essential oils soothe, rubbed into the skin, also pain and itching from bites!
