Why you should attract bees to the garden
Most gardening laypeople already know that the proverbial hardworking bee is a valuable beneficial insect. Nevertheless, especially in times when they are due to monocultures, increased use of insecticides and the spread of the Varroa mite found it particularly difficult in the wild, not having pointed out enough of its benefits for nature and gardening will.
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First and foremost, they are effective pollinators. So if you want to enjoy a flower-rich garden, you would do well to attract bees. In addition, the intensive pollination by the bees ensures effective seed and fruit formation in plants, which are an important source of food for other beneficial organisms. If you dare to, you can even keep your own small bee colony in the garden and be given delicious honey. Ultimately, bees are also valuable for the sensual garden experience: Their hum spreads when roaming the beds and sitting together on the terrace a wonderfully idyllic, summery Natural garden atmosphere.
What you get from the bees:
- Pollination - so more flower joy
- Seed and fruit reproduction for humans and other beneficial organisms
- Possibly honey yield
- Summer summer concerts
Bee-friendly ground cover
If you want to fill an area in the garden with a ground cover, it is extremely clever to attract bees at the same time by choosing the variety. If you want to plant several areas in a bee-friendly way, it is advisable to produce as broad a range of flowers as possible over the season.
The hard-working pollinators especially fly in the following area-filling species:
- Yarrow: very popular with bees, long flowering period
- Garden anemones: pretty, offer flowers in early spring to autumn, depending on the variety
- Scented nettle: refreshing scent, distinctive purple candle blossoms, some varieties even edible
- Liver balm: very decorative, light purple flowers and deep green foliage, flowering from June to August
- Ivy: Very effective bee magnet
- Colorful rock cress: beautiful, filigree leaf decoration, blooms from April to July, for rock gardens
- Carnation: Flowering from May to August, not too ground covering, rather for smaller low cushions in the perennial bed
- Creeping Gunsel: good covering ground cover, flowering from May to June
Bee-friendly wildflower mixtures can usually be sown low and broadly and therefore as Bee ground cover is suitable - in addition, there is usually an abundance of flowers throughout the summer guaranteed.