Hectares for Nectar - Trees and Shrubs as Bee Pastures

BUGA Mannheim 2023

Insect decline and bee mortality - these terms are not only in the media at the moment, and for good reason. Studies show that the biomass of insects has decreased by up to 75% in the last 30 years.

ABUGA Mannheim also took this aspect into account in its planning, and so a one-hectare honeycomb exhibition area was created on the grounds, which was specifically designed as an insect pasture.

Woody plants are insect pastures!

We showed this through our contribution to this exhibition area, which is appropriately titled 'Acres for Nectar'.

With 26 woody plants in noble wooden tubs, we offer a small sample of what is possible. The trees are distributed over the one-hectare exhibition area, divided according to the criteria:

Pre-fruit blossom (February to April)
Fruit blossom (mid-April to mid-May)
After fruit blossom (May to the end of June)
Flowering period (July to the end of September)
Honeydew

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„Become an insect rescuer! With a clever choice of plants, year-round flowering is possible and woody plants play an important role in this. Everyone is asked to offer insects more food sources, true to the motto: species richness against food shortages.“

Kerstin Abicht, Landscape Architect, Lorenz von Ehren Nursery

Salix alba in wunderschöner gelber Blüte Anfang Mai

Provide the insects with more habitats and food. It’s not only perennials and annuals that count as bee pasture, but also trees and shrubs. Woody plants provide bees with many sources of food. Therefore, attention should definitely be paid to trees as insect pasture in the garden. Trees such as field maple (Acer campestre), linden (Tilia), chestnut (Castanea sativa), apple (Malus in various species and varieties) oder die or the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) are just a few examples of natural food sources for insects such as honeybees and wild bees as well as bumblebees.

Acer campestre - Castanea sativa - Cherries in varieties - Tilia europaea - Salix alba - Robinia pseudoacacia - Malus 'Aldenhamensis'

Trees and shrubs as insect pastures

Some examples

Flowering before fruit

During fruit blossom

Honeydew

Pinus sylvestris 'Watereri'

After fruit blossom

Flowering time July until end of September

The Federal Horticultural Show Mannheim 2023 / 14 April to 8 October 2023

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