Turn Your Balcony Into A Bee Paradise

🐝 🐝 Garden Practice: Bee-friendly Flowers 🐝

Flowers like roses, or petunias might look pretty, and their smell might even attract bees, they don’t provide a lot of food for them, though. In gerneral, one can say single petaled flowers (they only have one ring of petals) provide more nectar and pollen than double petaled flowers, and are therfore better for a bee-friendly balcony.

Wildflowers

Here are some specific recommendations for bee-friendly plants: Different sorts of regional wildflowers attract bees and many other useful creatures. Since the bee deaths were a huge topic in Germany at the beginning of this year, garden centres sell many different sorts of wildflowers and wildflower seeds, here. I hope you can find such flowers easily in your country as well. Some other bee-friendly flowers are: lavender, nasturtium, hibiscus, sunflowers, and marigolds, to name only a few beautiful examples. Local flowers are better for your local insects than other, by the way! Herbs are not only tasty for humans, but, as soon as they start to bloom, also for bees.

Herbs & Fruits

Some examples for tasty and bee-friendly herbs are:

• 🍃 Basil,
• Thyme,
• Sage,
• Oregano and
• Savory 🍃

If your balcony has enough space, you might also plant some vegetables and fruits like tomatos or strawberries, for example. First, the blossoms are delicious for the bees, and then, the fruits are delicious for us – a win-win situation.

Learn more about bees
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