From BZ/dpa
Bumblebees are good for plants because they are the first pollinators of the year. Reason enough to make them beautiful in the garden. These plants support the furry insects.
When the sun slowly warms up the earth, the bumblebee queens crawl out of their winter quarters. Now they need protein and vitamin-rich pollen for the development of the ovaries in order to reproduce, explains the German Wildlife Foundation.
In the wild, the number of flowers unfortunately decreases.
Therefore, suitable plants in gardens or on balconies are good. Grape hyacinths, snow shine, crocuses, winter aphids and squills, for example, also grow in tubs or balcony boxes.
Garden owners can help bumblebees if they like early flowering stone or pome fruit plums, cherries or apples plant, as well willow and maple varieties, service pear and dogwood as well as berry bushes. Also wild perennials like Hellebore, Coltsfoot and shepherd’s purse provide pollen and nectar early in the year.
Later it gets tight again: Due to the increasingly hot and drier weather from May onwards, bumblebees often need support until August.
The following plants, which usually grow all by themselves with a bit of wilderness in the garden, provide this: red, horn and white clover, viper’s bugloss, knapweed, kitchen herbs and thistles.