What plants repel wasps and hornets? Aromatic herbs and ornamental plants do not smell many insects. Plant them near the house or terrace and insects will not search your home. .
Washes and Horne
At the end of spring and throughout the summer, sometimes in the autumn, it is possible to literally spend days and nights outside in the garden, on the terrace or with open windows and balcony doors. Fresh air, summer scent, occasional breeze. We often look forward to all this all winter.
However, all insects also attract heat. If it works just like last year, we have something to look forward to. Last year, the wasps also multiplied and were blessed all over.
But you can do something before you will appear with your wasps and hornets. Some insects also work some repellent aromatic herbs. It is not only that is why the cultivation of herbs and specific ornamental plants can be advantageous just near the house, entrance doors and windows.
Fortunately, we are not wasps, and therefore these herbs and ornamental flowers certainly do not mind and most rather smell. You can easily create beautiful herb beds, but also ornamental garden, because many of these species bloom beautifully and are very nice to look at. Which plants to plant to discourage wasps and hornets?
Herbs and ornamental plants are repeated
Lavender, rosemary and thyme. While rosemary and thyme are relatively small plants that you can deposit to almost any other species, lavender can grow beautifully even in flower beds, where it leads a little better than in containers.
Lavender also looks very nice in combination with sage. Both plants are very aromatic and beautifully complement with different growths, leaves and flowers of similar colors. Although each of them is different, lavender and sage can definitely also use in the kitchen or elsewhere in the home. Both plants are also used to repel wardrobe or other pests.
Mint is also very unpleasant. Mint is perfect for preparing summer drinks, ice creams, or just drying and sipping. At the same time, it is a plant that really bothers both flies, mosquitoes, horners and wasps. But the problem is that the plant grows strongly into its surroundings. It is therefore advantageous to grow in containers, where you can better maintain the necessary humidity it requires, and at the same time does not spread to your surrounding beds.
Out into the windows and on the window sills you can also stick to the summer basil. Basil is one of the herbs that hate cold and therefore would not last in the garden. Typically, it is therefore grown in pots that you can easily move out during the summer months. Let the basil fly near the entrance to the house or windows and where you will always have a herb at hand.
But then there is a category of plants, which are grown primarily as ornamental and still have considerable repellent effects. These include AkSamitník or African, but also marigold medical or popular geranium, also known as a nutmeg. It is not in vain that these plants are suitable for growing on window sills. Here they will not only decorate, but also discourage any uninvited guests in the form of hornets and wasps.
Repellents are not a panacea
As in any other case, when you are trying to expel in different ways of pests from the beds or from the house, aromatic repellents are just part of the fight. They work for the expulsion of the insects, but cannot be relying on 100 %.
Therefore, it is definitely useful to secure windows with nets or at least curtains. And in the case of an annual case of wasps, you can place a dummy that discourages the new nest construction to places where you have already liquidated this nest.
For this reason, people create false nests or similar objects for hanging. Since the wasps are also territorial, they often avoid mock -ups and build their own nest somewhere else. Even these dummy do not provide absolute protection against wasps, on the other hand they work to some extent and some praise them. A lantern can also serve as a fake nest, a slightly crumpled paper bag or a crocheted nest.
In addition, ultrasonic scarecrows are also used, as well as traps in which the insects drown.
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