Examples of your garden projects, where both the owner and the insects are happy
What you will learn here
- How did you manage to arrange your garden?
- How to balance the needs of your family and nature in your home garden
- Your stories and experiences
- Motivation for others
Introduction
On the internet and on our website, you will find many instructions on how to arrange the coexistence of your family and nature outside your house - in your garden.
There have been enough guides already, so we have created a space for you to share your own experiences – good and bad. Your stories, like the stories of bumblebee keepers, are extremely valuable. You are the one who shows others – don't worry, it can be done.
In the introduction, you looked at the garden of our colleague Karel Kučera . Now you can look at other gardens.
We would like to share gardens and examples that are truly adapted to coexist with nature - full of flowers all season long and where nature takes priority over other needs of us humans.
If you want to share it with others, write to us at info@cmelaciplus.cz with your story in the range of 1/2 - up to a full page. Attach up to 10 good quality photos, from which we will select interesting ones to complement your text.
Thank you!
Bumblebees by a forest pool
Vit Cach, Korouhev u Polička, 22.11.2020
I have always enjoyed observing the so-called umbrella effect. Simply put, many other species with similar environmental requirements will benefit from a habitat created for a certain species. But when I made a garden pond for water bumblebees fed by rainwater, I did not know how valuable a place it would be for pollinators. It is obvious that aquatic and wetland plants, as well as plants growing around the pond, will easily bloom and produce nectar even in dry periods thanks to a good water supply. And so the area around the pond is the most frequented place in the garden, I observed nine species of bumblebees here.
Irises are the most spectacular in spring and become more lush in autumn, but there are also many daisies and comfrey, forest purslane, sedge, sedge, sedge, lungwort, frogweed, oregano, mint...
The Tůň also provides water to the trees growing in the area. Giant elderberries, buckthorns, brambles, viburnums, dogwoods, currants and honeysuckle. All of the above plants are frequently visited by bumblebees, with a few exceptions native to our country.
The primeval forest around the pool maintains its own microclimate very well. In the spring, night frosts do not reach under the dense bushes, in the summer it is several degrees cooler here thanks to evaporation than 20m away in the shade of a house. There is no shade like shade! That's why I have my bumblebees here. So far I have not had to deal with summer cooling, I also do not use protection against ants, they simply do not exist here, in a shady and humid environment.
The cost of creating the pool was ridiculously low compared to the effect. So when you don't know what to kick in the winter, kick over the pipe that drains water out of your garden. You'll see what even a small puddle can attract.
Vit
Your garden can also be a paradise, not only for bumblebees
Photo V. Cach 2020
Your garden can be a paradise, not just for bumblebees.
Don't be afraid of small wetlands, they have an amazing effect on nature and their microclimate helps nature cope with temperature extremes and droughts.
Photo V. Cach 2020
Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) and loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Photo V. Cach 2020
Bumblebee (Bombus humilis) on a sedge
Photo V. Cach 2020
Garden bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) on foxglove
Photo V. Cach 2020
Bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) and yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus)
Photo V. Cach 2020
Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) and Siberian iris (Iris sibirica)
Photo V. Cach 2020
Wood bumblebee (Bombus sylvarum) on double bindweed (Monarda didyma)
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Bumblebee paradise in winter
Photo V. Cach 2020