Bees are essential to our ecosystem. However, the beneficial insects have been under increasing threat for some time. Create new habitat for bees by using flowers, perennials and trees that appear bee-friendly.

In a nutshell

  • Whether perennials, shrubs or trees, all plants with flowers are inherently bee-friendly
  • Flowering time, duration and intensity affect how bee-friendly plants are
  • Combining plants with different flowering times will make the garden bee-friendly for as long a period as possible
  • Combine flowers, perennials, shrubs and trees to make the garden particularly attractive and friendly
  • Herbs are useful for humans, friendly to bees and beneficial for the garden in many other ways due to the essential oils and fragrances

Flowers from tubers and bulbs

Bulbous or bulbous plants usually appear as solitary plants and have a lush bloom in relation to the rest of the plant. So they are probably the most obviously bee-friendly plants:

Crocus (Crocus)

  • Flowers: white, yellow to blue and violet, elongated calyxes with narrow, far-reaching petals
  • Flowering time: March or September, depending on the species
  • Growth form: Single plants from bulbs
  • Location: sunny

Poet's Daffodil (Narcissus poeticus)

  • Flowers: Narrow yellow central calyx typical of narcissus, star-shaped ring of flat petals in white
  • Flowering time: March to April
  • Growth form: high-growing single plants from onions
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Source: Meneerke bloem, Narcissus poeticus 001, edited by Plantopedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Yellow daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus)

  • Flower: large-volume central calyx with a flat ring of petals, intense yellow colour
  • Flowering time: March to April
  • Growth form: elongated, upright from bulbs
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Daffodils, Narcissus

Larkspur (Corydalis)

  • Flowers: Flower clusters on centrally rising stems, colors from white to blue to violet
  • Flowering time: March and April
  • Growth form: herbaceous, tubers covering the ground
  • Location: partially shaded

Milk Stars (Ornithogalum)

  • Flowers: Delicate, star-shaped white flowers, more rarely orange, green-yellow or bicolored
  • Flowering time: from May
  • Growth form: bushy onions
  • Location: sunny

Snowdrop (Galanthus)

  • Flowers: dainty white hanging cups
  • Flowering time: February to March
  • Growth form: solitary or in groups of bulbs, slender, ring-shaped habit around flower stems
  • Location: partially shaded to sunny
Snowdrops with snow-white flowers

Grape Hyacinths (Muscari)

  • Flowers: blue to violet, terminal racemes
  • Flowering time: March to May
  • Growth habit: upright, ground covering
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Wild Tulip (Tulipa sylvestris)

  • Flowers: mostly yellow, round, towering cups, solitary on tall stalks
  • Flowering time: April to May
  • Growth form: perennial herbaceous from onions
  • Location: partially shaded to sunny

herbs

Although humans harvest and use most herbs when they are green, these plants also display a lush splendor during the flowering period. Herbs thus fulfill an important function in several respects: they serve as useful crops for humans and their abundant supply of nectar makes the herb garden particularly friendly for bees. Loosely placed between other crops, herbs can thus positively influence pollination and fruit yield of the kitchen garden:

wild garlic (Allium ursinum)

  • Flowers: filigree, wise star-shaped flowers in groups of flowers
  • Flowering time: April to May
  • Growth form: Individual plants sprouting from a central tuber, groups of plants often proliferating, covering the ground
  • Location: semi-shady to shady
  • Usability: Leaves as herb or vegetable

mountain savory (Satureja montana)

  • Flowers: Large numbers of small flowers directly on the branches, flower color white, pink or violet
  • Flowering period: June to October
  • Growth form: forms low lawn carpets
  • Location: sunny
  • Usability: as an herb, e.g. for beans or herb butter

Borage (Borago officinalis)

  • Flower: Star-shaped blue flowers with a high nectar content
  • Flowering time: from June
  • Growth form: bushy, rampant
  • Location: sunny
  • Usability: Blossoms and leaves as a herb or added to salads

Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)

  • Flowers: spreading, bright yellow, orange or red individual flowers on solitary stems
  • Flowering time: from June to the first autumn frost
  • Growth form: herbaceous flat
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
  • Usability: all parts of the plant in salads and as a condiment

Catnip (Nepeta Cataria)

  • Flowers: Intense violet, blue or white, large numbers of small flowers directly on the shoots
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth form: upright, bushy, rampant
  • Location: sunny
  • Usability: Leaves as a tea, in salads or as a herb
Nepeta cataria

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum)

  • Flowers: white, rather inconspicuous flowers
  • Flowering time: from June
  • Growth habit: loosely upright, sprawling
  • Location: partially shaded
  • Usability: Spice Herb

Lavender (Lavendula angustifolia)

  • Flowers: white or violet on upright umbels, small, close-set flowers
  • Flowering period: June to mid-September
  • Growth form: bushy compact
  • Location: sunny
  • Usability: as a medicinal herb or to repel insects
Lavender in the garden

Lovage (Levisticum officinale)

  • Flowers: Light green to yellow, small and inconspicuous flowers
  • Flowering time: from June
  • Growth form: loosely bushy
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
  • Usability: Spice Herb
Levisticum officinale, lovage, maggi herb

Oregano (Origanum vulgare)

  • Flower: white to pink tiny flowers in dense clusters at the stalk ends
  • Flowering period: July and August
  • Growth form: loosely bushy, rampant
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
  • Usability: Spice
oregano

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)

  • Flower: white, blue or pink small flowers between the needles
  • Flowering time: March to May
  • Growth form: compact, bushy, upright
  • Location: sunny
  • Usability: Spice Herb
Rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis

Sage (Salvia officinalis)

  • Flowers: Intense blue, white or pink flowers on long, towering umbels
  • Flowering time: from May
  • Growth form: loosely bushy, sprawling
  • Location: sunny
  • Usability: tea, condiments, herb butter etc.

Thyme (Thymus vulgaris)

  • Flowers: tiny white and pink flowers in large numbers directly on the shoots
  • Flowering time: from May
  • Growth habit: dense and compact, bushy
  • Location: sunny
  • Usability: tea, aromatic plant
thyme, thymus

Woodruff (Galium odoratum)

  • Flowers: white star-shaped flowers in loose, towering umbels
  • Flowering time: April to May
  • Growth form: flat, ground-covering
  • Location: semi-shady to shady

Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)

  • Flowers: Blue-violet or pink flowers ring-shaped around the leaf axils of the shoots
  • Flowering period: June to September
  • Growth form: loose, towering
  • Location: sunny
  • Usability: tea or herb

Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis)

  • Flowers: small white flowers in the leaf axils, strongly reminiscent of stinging nettles
  • Flowering time: from June
  • Growth form: loosely growing
  • Location: partially shaded
  • Usability: desserts, condiments, tea, lemonade, salads

Meadow and balcony flowers

Many flowers thrive particularly well in combination with other plants in meadows or in colorful window boxes. For example, combine meadow flowers and herbs to make your outdoor area particularly bee-friendly.

Notice: Many meadow flowers are considered to be very bee-friendly. However, they also spread quickly and are therefore often considered “weeds”. You should therefore plan these flowers in closed pots. In this way you make the bees happy without having to accept unwanted spread yourself.

Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis)

  • Flower: violet or white, lush flower clusters with hanging calyx flowers
  • Flowering period: May to June
  • Growth form: climbing, long, branching creepers
  • Location: sunny

Teucrium chamaedrys

  • Flowers: dark violet small flowers in dense spikes
  • Flowering period: June to July
  • Growth form: loosely upright
  • Location: sunny
Germander, Teucrium chamaedrys

Dyer's chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria)

  • Flowers: intense yellow flower heads
  • Flowering period: June to September
  • Growth habit: upright, clump-forming, bushy
  • Location: sunny

Dyer's mignonette (Reseda luteola)

  • Flowers: Green-yellow flowers loosely grouped around the tips of the shoots
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth form: flat loose
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis)

  • Flowers: yellow small flowers in upright, dense panicles
  • Flowering period: May to September
  • Growth form: loosely bushy
  • Location: sunny

Horn clover (Lotus corniculatus)

  • Flowers: Yellow butterfly-shaped single flowers
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Growth form: herbaceous
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Climbing Hydrangea (Hydrangea petiolaris)

  • Flowers: Umbrella panicles with small white star-shaped flowers
  • Flowering period: June to July
  • Growth form: sprawling, climbing, twining shoots
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Climbing Hydrangea, Hydrangea petiolaris

Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

  • Flowers: Slightly double, upright flowers in violet, blue, red, pink and white
  • Flowering period: May to September
  • Growth habit: upright and loose
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Cosmos bipinnatus (Cosmos bipinnatus)

  • Flower: Star-shaped flower in red, pink or white with a yellow center
  • Flowering period: July to October
  • Growth form: loosely upright
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Snow Heather (Erica carnea)

  • Flowers: small hanging calyxes in loose spikes, flower color is pink to white
  • Flowering time: February to April
  • Growth form: flat, carpet-forming
  • Location: sunny, occasionally semi-shady

Meadow vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis)

  • Flower: Filigree, butterfly-shaped flowers in white, pink, red or violet
  • Flowering time: April to May
  • Growth form: loosely herbaceous and climbing
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Meadowfoam (Cardamine pratensis)

  • Flowers: Circular single flowers in pink or white
  • Flowering time: April to June
  • Growth habit: upright, clump-forming
  • Location: partially shaded
Meadow bittercress

Wild carrot (Daucus carota)

  • Flowers: Tiny white flowers in a hemispherical, upright clump
  • Flowering period: June to October
  • Growth form: upright rosette-forming
  • Location: sunny
wild carrot

Fence Vetch (Vicia sepium)

  • Flowers: Butterfly-shaped, delicate individual flowers in violet
  • Flowering period: May to July
  • Growth form: loosely growing and climbing
  • Location: partially shaded

perennials

Perennials are the most commonly used ornamental plants in many gardens. What pleases man also appears friendly to bees. Because where people enjoy large numbers of colorful flowers, bees are also attracted. Each individual bloom of the perennials represents an attractive source of food, so that a handsome ornamental garden often hums happily to itself over the summer months:

aster (aster)

  • Flowers: Star-shaped, large flowers in yellow, orange, red, violet, white or blue
  • Flowering period: August to October
  • Growth form: bushy, dense
  • Location: sunny
Aster sp.

Comfrey (Symmphytum)

  • Flowers: Hanging umbels of flowers in violet, blue or pink
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Growth habit: upright and clump-forming
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Blue Comfrey, Symphytum azureum

Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)

  • Flowers: Small, bright pink flowers in upright spikes
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth habit: upright, bushy, clump-forming
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Bush mallow (Lavatera olbia)

  • Flowers: white to pink hanging calyx flowers and racemes
  • Flowering period: July to October
  • Growth habit: upright, loose, clump-forming
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa)

  • Flowers: compact, white calyx flowers, solitary on short stalks
  • Flowering time: March to April
  • Growth form: bushy to herbaceous, ground covering
  • Location: semi-shady to shady
Wood anemone, Anemone nemorosa

Christmas roses (Helleborus niger)

  • Flowers: pink or white large-sized single flowers in the shape of a star
  • Flowering period: January to March, November to December
  • Growth form: clump-forming
  • Location: semi-shady to shady

Sweet nettle (Agastache)

  • Flowers: towering, elongated inflorescences in blue and violet
  • Flowering period: June to September
  • Growth form: upright, bushy
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Agastache, sweet nettle

Ivory Thistle (Eryngium giganteum)

  • Flowers: white, upright single flowers in a surrounding leaf setting
  • Flowering period: July to August
  • Growth habit: clump-forming, upright, rosette-forming
  • Location: sunny

Stonecrop (Sedum)

  • Flower: white, towering groups of flowers
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Growth form: flat, cushion-forming
  • Location: sunny

Foxglove (digitalis)

  • Flowers: Striking upright inflorescences with hanging calyxes in white, pink or violet, as well as yellow and red
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Growth form: bushy upright
  • Location: partially shaded

Lady's slipper (Cypripedium)

  • Flowers: conspicuously cupped flowers with an overhanging blossom roof, colors green, yellow, red, white, brown, as well as multicolored
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Growth form: clump-forming
  • Location: semi-shady to shady

Bee balm (Monarda didyma)

  • Flowers: pink, red, violet or white, round, voluminous single flowers
  • Flowering period: June to September
  • Growth habit: upright and clump-forming
  • Location: partially shaded

Bellflower (Campanual)

  • Flower: Hanging, bell-shaped calyxes in white, pink, blue or violet
  • Flowering period: June to July
  • Growth form: upright
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Bellflower, Campanula persicifolia

Globe thistle (Echinops)

  • Flower: spherical flower in blue
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth habit: upright and clump-forming
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Maideneye (Coreopsis)

  • Flowers: bright yellow, orange to red spherical flowers
  • Flowering period: July to October
  • Growth form: upright, clump-forming, bushy
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Maideneye, Coreopsis lanceolata

Purple Bells (Heuchera)

  • Flowers: pink, red or violet small calyx florets in loose spikes
  • Flowering period: May to July
  • Growth form: herbaceous, clump-forming
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Heuchera sp.

Red coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)

  • Flower: upright, red to purple colored double flower in a distinct sun/star shape
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth habit: upright, clump-forming
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Checkered Flower (Fritillaria meleagris)

  • Flowers: red-violet, characteristically checkered hanging calyxes
  • Flowering time: April and May
  • Growth form: upright, bushy perennials
  • Location: partially shaded to sunny

Siberian Squill (Scilla siberica)

  • Flowers: blue to violet, hanging calyxes reminiscent of lampshades
  • Flowering time: March to April
  • Growth form: solitary plants, often spreading wildly over a large area
  • Location: shady to semi-shady

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

  • Flower: Large-sized single flower with a yellow leaf ring and a brown center
  • Flowering period: July to October
  • Growth habit: upright, tall
  • Location: sunny
Sunflower, Helianthus annuus

Sunbride (Helenium)

  • Flowers: Bright yellow flower clusters with towering individual flowers
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth habit: upright, clump-forming
  • Location: sunny

Coneflower (Rutbeckia fulgida)

  • Flowers: Radiant yellow petals with a dark brown to black filling
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth form: clump-like upright
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Coneflower 'Goldsturm', Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii

Hollyhock (Alcea)

  • Flower: single, double flower in violet, yellow, orange, red, pink or white
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth habit: Growth habit: upright, forming rosettes
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Hollyhock, Alcea rosea

Carpet dogwood (Cornus canadensis)

  • Flowers: Dainty white star-shaped flowers on upright single stems
  • Flowering period: May to June
  • Growth form: flat, dense
  • Location: partially shaded
Dogwood, Cornus

Wood cranesbill (Geranium sylvaticum)

  • Flowers: violet, single flowers in an erect calyx shape
  • Flowering period: May to October
  • Growth form: bushy, clump-forming, upright
  • Location: semi-shady to shady
Source: Udo Schmidt from Germany, Geranium sylvaticum L. (9058470868), Edited by Plantopedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

shrubs

Shrubs draw attention to themselves from afar as food sources that appear friendly to bees, simply because of their size and the fact that bees can easily find them. Even plants without extremely lush flowering appear friendly to the beneficial insects because of their size and the associated number of flowers.

Attention: Especially the particularly lush and strikingly flowering shrubs often produce large numbers of intensely colored fruits. In households with children, make sure to choose only non-toxic plants. Because not only the bees but also our offspring are attracted to bright colours.

Alpine currant (Ribes alpinum)

  • Flowers: green-yellowish, delicate flower umbels directly on the branch
  • Flowering time: April to May
  • Growth form: upright, bushy
  • Growth height: 1.50 to 2.00 meters
  • Location: semi-shady to shady
Source: Salicyna, Ribes alpinum 2022-04-16 0509, edited by Plantopedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Barberry (Berberis)

  • Flowers: yellow small disc flowers
  • Flowering period: May to June
  • Growth form: bushy and loose
  • Growth height: 0.30 to 3.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to shady
Barberry is also called vinegar berry

Bladder bush (Colutea arborescens)

  • Flowers: yellow to orange, blister-shaped, pointed flower clusters
  • Flowering period: May to August
  • Growth form: upright, dense, bushy
  • Growth height: 1.00 to 4.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Blood currant (Ribes rubrum)

  • Flowers: white to red flowers in hanging umbels typical of currants
  • Flowering time: April to May
  • Growth form: upright, sprawling shrubs
  • Growth height: 1.50 to 2.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Blackberry (Rubus)

  • Flowers: small, white to soft pink flowers in flower groups close to the tips of the shoots
  • Flowering period: June to July
  • Growth form: bushy, rampant, climbing tendrils
  • Growth height: up to 3.00 meters
  • Location: full sun to shady

Ivy (Hedera helix)

  • Flowers: Green to yellow inconspicuous flowers in compact balls on short stems
  • Flowering time: September to October
  • Growth form: Fast-growing, climbing plant
  • Growth height: 1.00 to over 10.00 meters
  • Location: semi-shady to shady

European spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus)

  • Flowers: green, yellow or white cymes
  • Flowering period: May and June
  • Growth form: upright, multi-stemmed large shrub
  • Growth height: 1.50 to 4.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Euonymus europaeus

Buckthorn (Frangula alnus)

  • Flowers: green clusters of flowers in the leaf axils
  • Flowering period: May to June
  • Growth form: upright, sprawling habit as large shrubs or even small trees
  • Growth height: 2.00 to 7.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Source: Stefan.lefnaer, Frangula alnus sl7, Edited by Plantopedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Serviceberry (Amelanchier ovalis)

  • Flowers: tiny white bowl-shaped flowers in dense flower clusters
  • Flowering time: from April
  • Growth form: upright, umbrella-shaped
  • Growth height: around 2.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Source: Joan Simon from Barcelona, España, Amelanchier ovalis (5650554609), Edited by Plantopedia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Sloe (Prunus spinosa)

  • Flowers: white, small, round individual flowers on the side shoots
  • Flowering time: March to April
  • Growth habit: dense, upright habit with strong runners
  • Growth height: 3.00 to 5.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Prunus spinosa

Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa)

  • Flower: Small, star-shaped green-white flower with red veins
  • Flowering period: May to June
  • Growth form: sprawling spherical
  • Height of growth: 0.60 to 1.00 metres, rarely up to 1.50 metres
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Hawthorn (Crataegus)

  • Flowers: small white, dense bowl-shaped flowers
  • Flowering period: May to June
  • Growth form: spherical and dense
  • Growth height: 3.00 to 7.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

wild rose (pink)

  • Flowers: single large flowers in white, yellow, pink and red
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Growth form: bushy, sprawling
  • Growth height: up to 3.00 meters depending on the species
  • Location: sunny, partially shaded possible
wild rose

Woolly viburnum (Viburnum lantana)

  • Flowers: Upright umbels of countless small, white star-shaped flowers
  • Flowering period: May to June
  • Growth form: upright and bushy
  • Growth height: 2.00 to 4.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

trees

Trees may only appear in the home garden as solitary individual plants, but as an almost inexhaustible source of food they are to be regarded as bee-friendly from the ground up. Nevertheless, there are various trees that stand out from the trees in general in a particularly friendly way due to their blossom and nectar supply:

Apple thorn (Crataegus x lavallei)

  • Flowers: White, decorative flowers in tight clusters
  • Flowering time: May
  • Growth form: umbrella-shaped, upright
  • Growth height: 5.00 to 7.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Source: Nadiatalent, Crataegus lavallei flowers, edited from Plantopedia, CC0 1.0

Flower Ash (Fraxinus ornus)

  • Flowers: white, strongly fragrant flower panicles
  • Flowering time: April to June
  • Growth form: spherical, upright
  • Height of growth: 6.00 to 15.00 meters
  • Location: sunny

blood plum (Prunus cerasifera)

  • Flower: Pale pink star-shaped flowers in clusters
  • Flowering time: April
  • Growth form: spherical small tree / large shrub
  • Growth height: 5.00 to 7.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Linden (Tilia)

  • Flowers: small yellow flowers in loose, hanging umbels
  • Flowering period: July and August
  • Growth form: upright
  • Growth height: 20.00 to 30.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Source: AnRo0002, 20220608Tilia cordata1, Edited by Plantopedia, CC0 1.0

Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

  • Flowers: white folded flowers in loose racemes
  • Flowering period: late May to early June
  • Growth form: spherical to umbrella-shaped, loose growing
  • Height of growth: 12.00 to 30.00 meters
  • Location: sunny
Robinia pseudoacacia, Source: AnRo0002, 20150513Robinia pseudoacacia3, Edited from Plantopedia, CC0 1.0

Notice: On the one hand, the robinia is considered to be one of the most bee-friendly trees. On the other hand, the trees are not originally native to us and are therefore repeatedly questioned as to their suitability as bee pasture. It is undeniable that bees are friendly to this plentiful food source and are happy to take advantage of it.

Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)

  • Flowers: white flowers in upright, luxuriant umbels
  • Flowering time: April to May
  • Growth form: upright
  • Growth height: 20.00 to 30.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

European beech (Fagus sylvatica)

  • Flowers: small white flowers on short individual stalks from the leaf axils
  • Flowering time: April and May
  • Growth form: upright and spherical
  • Growth height: 30.00 to 40.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Velvety stink ash (Euodia hupehensis)

  • Flowers: inconspicuous white flowers in dense, upright umbels
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Growth form: spherical, sprawling
  • Growth height: 10.00 to 112.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady
Source: Krzysztof Golik, Tetradium daniellii in Jardin des plantes de Montpellier 03, edited by Plantopedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cord tree (Styphnolobium japonicum)

  • Flowers: White-yellow inflorescences in loosely arranged panicles
  • Flowering period: August and September
  • Growth habit: upright, sprawling
  • Growth height: 15.00 to 20.00 meters
  • Location: sunny
For healthy growth, regular repotting is recommended, especially in the first few years.

Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

  • Flowers: green-yellowish corymbs
  • Flowering time: April
  • Growth form: spherical, sprawling large tree
  • Growth height: up to 20.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

Willows (Salix)

  • e.g. Sal willow (Salix caprea)
  • Flowers: alternate yellow catkin-shaped flowers
  • Flowering time: March to April
  • Growth form: upright, spherical large shrub or small tree
  • Height of growth: 5.00 to 8.00 meters
  • Location: sunny to semi-shady

frequently asked Questions

Why should I make my garden bee-friendly at all?

Both wild and honey bees forage for food around their nest. They are also dependent on flowering plants in your garden. They also make a valuable contribution to the pollination of the flowers. No bees, no fruit, simple as that.

As a layman, how can I make my garden particularly bee-friendly?

Ultimately, you can hardly do anything wrong. Hardly any plant can do without flowers, the bees' food source. Your garden will be particularly friendly if you combine plants in such a way that other plants bloom as long as possible throughout the year and are available to insects as a source of food.

How can I make the garden especially bee-friendly?

An exclusively bee-friendly garden design is not possible. Because in addition to bees, countless other insects also live on the nectar and pollen of flowers and herbs. Don't just focus on bees, give those guests a warm welcome as well. Because the important task of pollination is also carried out by all other users of your offer, be it bumblebees, butterflies or other animals.

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