Hallo zusammen,
Wir versuchen, mehr Leben in diesen Neubau zu bringen, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf Bestäuber aller Art.
Ich möchte, dass es wie ein Bauerngarten mit Höhe und Farbe aussieht.
Da der Boden zu flach ist, sind vorne Hochbeete geplant. An der Seite ist eine vollständige Bepflanzung und möglichst volles Befüllen geplant.
Ich wollte nur ein paar Gedanken zu Sorten/Stauden/am besten insektenfreundlichen Pflanzen usw. äußern.
Dank im Voraus.
Von: chickenfatherdeluxe
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Maybe lavender?
I see these absolutely covered in pollinators in my garden: globe thistle, verbena bonariensis, sunflowers, scabious, lavender, flowering chives, alliums, and salvia.
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For a cottage feel I’d look at getting some delphiniums at the back to add some height. I’d recommend the magic fountain variety as these aren’t overly big.
Russian sage blue spires. Bees love it and it’s robust.
Send an update next year! And foxgloves and hollyhocks
I planted cosmos this year, loads of flowers, fairly tall, bees love it.
I have just moved house and brought just a couple of pots with me and in one pot a plant popped up, I do not know where it came from but it’s now about 5ft tall and packed full of honey bees, bumble bees 🐝 it’s a Honey Clover. I can’t believe how big it is just in a pot but the bees love it. That would look good at the back. Also don’t forget feed those flowers, my pots are the best they have ever been this year by making my own banana peel water and a weekly feed.
Salvia hotlips flower for ever, they’re really good. Hollyhocks also give a lot of joy and Verbena bonariensis are good and give height
Alyssum smells great and bees love it too. Its an annual but self seeds easy and fills out quick too
Geum look great amongst other flowers and have nice open flowers for pollinators.
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I love aquilegia, poppies and echinacea. These three will give you flowers from May- Sept/Oct. They all come in a wide variety of colours and are loved by pollinators if you get the single flower varieties. You can extend the season with some spring flowering bulbs.
Don’t just focus on the Butterfly’s n Bee’s. Look into bug, grub and catapiller plants, even if this means pots with ‘weeds’ in.
Can’t have adults if you don’t have baby’s.
I’d have gorse, broom, verbena and Perovskia at the back and lavender at the front leaving some room for annuals
Is this llanharran?
In that larger patch I’d plant a nice thick mixed native hedge and grow native honeysuckle and dog rose through it to make it more dense. Amazing for birds and bugs. Will also cover some of the bare brick. Plant a Jasmine to cover the other bit of wall there, great for moths, bats and pollinators. Underplant the hedge with english bluebells and crocuses.
If you plant any roses go for varieties with open flowers with an easily accessible centre. Plants in my garden that do very well with pollinators: nepeta, echinops, foxgloves, acanthus mollis, agapanthus, lavender, mint, winter savoury, all kinds of alliums, chives, some salvias with a spire type flower spike like nemorosa cardonna, evening primrose.
Go for purples, lilacs and blues rather than oranges/reds/yellows. More attractive to pollinators. Or white flowers which are often attractive to moths at night.
If you can add water this will give you huge results for wildlife. The lawn area is perfect for this. Either a very small pond of a corten steel water bowl, leave sediment in, it doesn’t have to be clear water. You’d get dragonfly larvae, birds bathing, bugs come to drink. Put something in it that sticks out like a large rock so bugs can escape.
Crane’s bill, rosemary and lupin
I threw down phacelia seeds and the bees absolutely love it .
A couple of things that haven’t been mentioned. The border at the front is quite narrow. Taller things will always try and get towards the light, so if you decide to grow taller things there you will need to stake, tie-in, etc. The border at the side is a bit wider, so more flexibility there. Secondly, and I’m pretty sure you’ll have done this, but check for covenants on what’s allowed in this area. You’re probably not allowed a fence, for example, but may be other restrictions too.
Lots and lots of snapdragons! And lavender and geums.
Wild marjoram is good
Catmint and lamb’s ears for ground cover. I recently discovered gaura and I love it. Penstemon also. Honeywort is good for bees. Also think about spring bulbs for colour before the perennials come up, and something for winter, maybe snowberry and red dogwood (you can keep it small). Sedum is a winter plant and hellebores
purple smellies lavander rosemary
globe thistle (rly recommend this one) and artichoke are great
a mahonia and ivy for winter food
then you want natives that flower from early spring
bugs need sunlight too so try to set up the big showers in sunlight
Lavender. Nepeta and Russian sage. In my garden there’s never more than a few dozen on these at any time. 🙂
Use the vertical space
Selfseeders are your friends