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Small in size, big in impact. Lesser Calamint attracts more bees per square metre than almost any other garden plant you could choose. The small white to pale purple flowers appear in June and last until October, long after other plants have finished flowering. The leaves have a fresh, herbaceous scent, slightly reminiscent of mint, and were traditionally used as a remedy for digestive complaints. In the border, it ensures a constant stream of insects and a subtle, pleasant fragrance.

Stonecrop is the stoic of the perennial world. Thick, succulent leaves store water, ensuring it survives — and flowers — even during the longest dry spells. The flat flower heads appear late in the season, just when the supply for bees and bumblebees begins to dwindle. Stonecrop is then one of the few plants still offering plenty of nectar. Moreover, it remains decorative even in winter, with its dry flower heads that withstand frosty nights without complaint.

Slender, tall and full of small purple flowers on long stems — Vervain is the plant that adds depth to a border. It flowers continuously from June until the first frost and attracts butterflies like no other perennial in this selection. Small tortoiseshell, painted lady, peacock butterfly: they all favour the flowers of Vervain. And despite its height of up to one and a half metres, its form is so airy that it never becomes too dominant.

The anise hyssop owes its name to its scent: refreshing, slightly aniseed-like, with a hint of liquorice. The leaves smell lovely as you walk past; the blue to purple flower spikes are a feast for bumblebees and bees. Agastache flowers for a long time, thrives in the sun and is exceptionally drought-tolerant once established. In a sunny border, it is both ornamental and useful, and it combines beautifully with the warmer colours of purple coneflower and yarrow.

Few plants are as instantly recognisable as the purple coneflower — and few plants deserve that fame quite as much. The pinkish-purple flowers, with their cone-shaped centres, are an icon of the summer garden. Echinacea flowers from July to September, but the story doesn’t end with the blooms: the dry seed heads that remain are also attractive to winter birds. In folk medicine, Echinacea purpurea has been known for centuries as a herbal remedy for colds. In the border, it symbolises beauty, resilience and ecological value.

The dense blazing star blooms from top to bottom, like an upside-down candle burning slowly. The purple-pink flower spikes appear in summer and are irresistible to bees and bumblebees. Liatris is also particularly graceful: the slender, upright stems give a border structure and height without toppling over. After flowering, the dried flower spikes remain attractive, both in the garden and in a vase.

Centuries ago, people used the leaves of soapwort to wash clothes. The plant contains saponins — a type of plant-based soap that lathers when it comes into contact with water. Nowadays, it is grown in borders for its graceful pink flowers, which appear in summer and persist well into autumn. Soapwort is imperturbably hardy, spreads gently and, in the evening, attracts moths with its soft scent — moths that tend to ignore most other plants.

Named after Achilles, the Greek hero who, according to legend, used it to treat wounds. Whether the story is true, nobody knows, but it immediately highlights just how old and valuable this plant is. Its finely pinnate leaves have been known in folk medicine for centuries, and in the border it shines with broad, flat flower heads that last for months and attract an impressive procession of insects. One of the most valuable plants for biodiversity that you can grow in your garden.

On pizza, in tomato sauce, with grilled meat — marjoram is the herb that tastes of a Mediterranean summer. But in the border, it does much more than just smell lovely. The small pink flowers that appear in summer have for years been among the plants that receive the most bee visits per day. You can enjoy a treat from your own garden and help nature at the same time: two birds with one stone.

You can smell rosemary before you see it. That resinous, warm Mediterranean scent is unmistakable, and it is precisely that scent that has linked rosemary to kitchens, rituals and memories for centuries. In the border, it is one of the earliest bloomers: as early as early spring, the small blue flowers are in bloom, just when bumblebees first start looking for nectar and few other plants are flowering.