DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-098-6-0237

PROMĚNY VENKOVSKÝCH ZAHRAD Z POHLEDU VČELAŘKY

TRANSFORMATIONS OF COTTAGE GARDENS FROM A BEEKEEPER’S PERSPECTIVE

Libuše Vlasáková^1,2

¹ Ministerstvo životního prostředí, Vršovická 65, 100 10 Praha 10, Česká republika

² SOU včelařské – Včelařské vzdělávací centrum, o.p.s., Slatiňanská 135, 538 25 Nasavrky, Česká republika

A cottage garden is a piece of land around a country cottage, cultivated by humans, with artificially planted vegetation and decorative but functional accessories. From the point of view of bees, the species composition of cultivated plants in cottage gardens was favorable in the past. From the point of view of beekeeping, current cottage gardens offer bees and other pollinating insects a much smaller range of nectar-bearing and pollen-bearing plants. The range of exotic, non-native plants in our country is growing. The trend is so-called maintenance-free gardens with a minimal representation of flowering flowers, i.e. an environment completely unsuitable for bees. The changes in cottage gardens are described based on the author of the article, who is also a beekeeper and a beekeeping teacher in the field of Beekeeping and Bees and the Environment, and based on a questionnaire survey among students of the Secondary Vocational School of Beekeeping in Nasavrky.

Keywords: bee, beekeeping, bee pasture, garden, plants

pages: 237-239, online: 2026