Promoting biodiversity in home gardens and avoiding stone deserts - that's what owners should do, according to the Association of Private Builders (VPB). The VPB also gives some tips on how this can succeed. For example, owners should opt for insect-friendly hedges with plants such as red dogwood, field maple or hornbeam instead of cherry laurel and thuja hedges. Because the latter are "almost as interesting to nature as a plastic palm tree".
In addition, owners should avoid monocultures such as green lawns. Better are flower meadows with many different species. For the love of insects, wild herbs should also be planted in the garden and superfluous lighting should be avoided.
In addition, the VPB draws attention to the fact that insects seek shelter under leaves and the piles of leaves should therefore be left lying around. Those who do not know or want to deal with gardening themselves can also hire landscape gardeners or landscape architects. Under no circumstances should owners create a stone desert with gravel or crushed stone, according to the VPB, because these could even negatively affect the local microclimate.
Source: vpb.de
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