Bees are beginning to find more favourable conditions than on monocultured rural areas. After harvest, the forage plants disappear, if they were suitable in the first place. Cornfields for example are of no use to bees. In urban areas, bees will find suitable plants within a 6km radius from spring until late autumn, on public land, in parks or on balconies, providing sufficient nectar for them to feed on.
Some plants are especially interesting for local wildlife such as insects, mainly by providing food. Two of our planters feature plants that attract our ‘urban bees’. It becomes clear, that insect-friendly plants are not necessarily local plants. Those can be found in other planters. An introduction to identifying local plants can be found in our planters marked ‘local plants’ which host a number of local wild plants. Another planter presents so-called garden escapees, as well as neophytes. These cultivated or imported plants have moved to the wilderness where they spread. Some even overgrow and drive out local flora.
The planters ‘women’ and ‘ephemeral art’ present plants that have value in terms of medicine or aesthetics.
