How to attract bees to your garden: 9 tips to know!

The bees are disappearing. Yet, they are absolutely essential for plant reproduction. If you want to take action, at your own level, to save bees from extinction, make your garden a real haven of peace for these insects so important for the preservation of biodiversity.

1. Plant blue, green, yellow, red and purple plants

Bees are especially drawn to bright colors, including blue, green, yellow, red, and purple.

2. Choose honey plants

Bees spend most of their time collecting nectar and pollen from flowers, which are their main food sources. To attract them, offer them an all-you-can-eat buffet by planting honey plants that have only one row of petals: lavender, cosmos, mint, sunflower, verbena, sage or more rosemary.

3. Ban pesticides

In order to maintain your garden, opt for natural solutions and ban pesticides permanently, it will only get better!

4. Favor fruits

Bees love fruits such as cherries, strawberries, melons, pears or even apples. So don't hesitate to set up a small orchard in your garden!

5. Don't make your garden too "clean"

Bees feel comfortable in an environment where biodiversity can thrive. So, let a few wild plants grow, like dandelions, clovers or daisies, and don't try to get a lawn and shrubs that are cut to the millimeter. The more wildflowers there are in your garden, the more bees you will attract.

6. Offer them food all year round

In order to hope to make your garden a refuge for bees, whatever the season, opt for flowers that bloom at different times of the year. So your garden will always be in bloom and bees can come and feed there at any time.

7. Create shelters

shetlters for bees

Not all bees live in swarms. Some prefer to live in tree stumps or in small cavities dug in the wood. Shelters specially dedicated to bees are also commercially available.

8. Install a water point

Bees also need to hydrate. To do this, set them up in a small bowl of water that you will place near the honey plants. Be careful, this one must not be too deep! And remember to change the water regularly.

9. Think local

Bees like to operate in an environment where plants are adapted to the soil and climate. So rule out the idea of ​​planting exotic plants and stick to local plants, specific to your region.