Insect-friendly planters as flowered areas
Each planter on your balcony is its own universe: Great diversity can evolve in the tiniest space, and you can have a piece of nature right at home. If you switch form geraniums to nectar-rich flowers, that’s already a great first step. Perennial, cold hardy shrubs and herbs are also very low maintenance, but still colourful and pretty.
The following collection of Internet links was selected as an example and does not claim to be complete.
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Tips and instructions:
- Insect-friendly balcony plants: choice of location, numerous ideas for types of plants and combinations:
Netzwerk Blühende Landschaft: Die richtige Balkonbepflanzung für Bienen und Co. (PDF)
Plant types:
- Practical advice on what insects to expect, which types of plants do well in window boxes and which in planters, including herbs, climbing plants, and bulbous plants:
Netzwerk Blühende Landschaft: Nahrhafte Balkonbepflanzung (PDF) - Practical advice on “wild” balcony gardens, choice of plants and how to plant them, ideas for window boxes and planters for sunny and semi-shady locations:
Naturschutzbund: Merkblatt Wildpflanzen für den Balkon (PDF)
Sources:
- Product database for soil, fertilizer, beneficial insects, herbicides etc., with a quality seal from “biologisch gärtnern”:
Die Umweltberatung: „biologisch gärtnern“ - Produktdatenbank (umweltberatung.at) - Sources of supply with regional plant materials of proven origin (wild plant seeds, wild plants, and wild-growing trees for private and large-scale projects):
Rewisa Netzwerk: Fachbetriebe naturnahes Grün – Pflanzenlieferanten (rewisa.at)
