Pollinating insects need support, especially in spring. Anyone who plants bee-friendly plants in their balcony boxes or flowerbeds is doing something good for our environment. We've put together a list of perennials, flowers and shrubs thatFood for bees and bumblebeesoffer.
Hardy, bee-friendly plants for balconies and gardens
Plants that meet certain criteria are called bee-friendly. Your flowers should:
- carry sufficient nectar and have a supply of nectar
- give off a sweet scent (so that the bees can find their way to the plant)
- be wide open and unfilled (so that pollinating insects can access the nectar in the flowers)
To ensure that the garden or balcony attracts bees, you should consider a few things when designing it. Bee-friendly outdoor areas are characterized by a rich supply of food. Therefore, you should use the pots, balcony boxes andPlant flower beds like thisthat something is always blooming there from spring to late autumn. Furthermore, you should never treat flowers, perennials and shrubs with pesticides.
Bee-friendly plants for the balcony box in the shade
Bleeding heart:Color pink, flowering period begins in April and ends in May/beginning of June.
White wood anemone:Color white, flowering begins in April and lasts until June. Perennial plant, poisonous to humans and animals.
Common golden nettle:Color yellow, flowering period begins in May after the Ice Saints and ends in August
Persistent Silver Leaf:Color white, blooms from May to early August, exudes a lilac-like scent in the evening.
Wallflower:Color purple, herbaceous plant, long flowering period from May to early October
Bee-friendly plants for the balcony in partial shade
The lungwort:Color purple, flowering period from March to May, perennial.
Hardy ice flowers:yellow, white and purple, drought-resistant, summer-blooming flowers for sun to partial shade. Flowering period May to September
Phlox:Colors white, pink, purple, flowering begins in June. If cared for well, the plants will bloom until autumn. They also tolerate morning sun and require little water.
Bee-friendly flowers in a pot
Peonies, peonies (wild forms with unfilled flowers):Colors white, pink, red. Perennial perennials with a strong scent and flowering in May and June. Prefer sunny locations.
Carnations:Different colors. Flowering begins in May and lasts until August. Drought-resistant perennial bee-friendly flowers for sun to partial shade.
Bee-friendly plants for the garden
Jacob's ladder:Color white or blue, blooms in June and July. Prefers a location in the shade.
Lilac:Lilac color. Exudes a characteristic, strong scent. Some varieties bloom in spring and again in fall.
Tangle Bellflower:Color purple. Persistent, herbal, native. Flowering period from June to August.
Hardy and bee-friendly perennials
Staudenclematis:Colors purple, violet, blue. Slightly poisonous subshrub with a long flowering period. If cared for properly, its bell-shaped flowers will delight the eye from June to September.
Fingerstrauch:Color yellow or white. Long flowering period from June to early September. Prefers sunny locations. Well suited for planting in flower beds.
Kriechender Günsel(for long-bees and bumblebees): color blue. Native bee-friendly andhardy plantwith flowering periods in April, May and June. Grows best in light shade, but can tolerate morning sun well.
Bee-friendly hedge plants: These bee-feeding trees are suitable
A bee-friendly hedge provides consistent and long-lasting nutrition not only for bees, but also for other pollinating insects such as bumblebees or butterflies. Woody plants that produce their flowers in spring are particularly important for beneficial insects. These include, for example, the gray or purple willow. In spring, flowering shrubs such as weigela provide nectar. In autumn, when the summer-flowering perennials fade, comes the time of the butterfly bushes.
When designing bee-friendly hedges, hobby gardeners should also make sure that the individual plants bloom at different times of the year. Supply is particularly scarce in spring, when the first brood of bees is looking for food, and in autumn, when the weather gets colder. Early and late flowering shrubs can solve the problem. The following hedge plants provide food for bees:
1. Shrubs and perennials that bloom in spring and early spring (March to May)
- Sal pasture (beginning of March to end of May)
- Winter jasmine (December to April)
- Wood anemone (March to May)
2. Shrubs and perennials that bloom in spring and early summer
- White Deutzia (May to June)
- Berberitze (Mai bis June)
- Weigela (end of April to mid-June)
- Japanese shrub spars (early flowering varieties)
- Firethorn (May to June)
- Privet (June to July)
3. Shrubs and perennials that bloom in summer and fall
- Finger bush (June to October)
- Real jasmine (May to August)
- Buddleia (July to October)
The right time, oneto create flowering hedges, is in autumn and spring. You should plan really well, because such a hedge can be up to 2 meters wide. In contrast to evergreen hedge plants, most bee-friendly shrubs do not tolerate topiary.
