What is a flower meadow sponsorship?
What are flower meadows?
Do you know the wonderful feeling of walking through a colorful meadow of flowers? When was the last time you gave yourself a moment to pause quietly in a beautifully blooming meadow? How did you feel when you took a deep breath and inhaled the wonderful scent of the diverse blossoms? Do you know what it's like to exhale relaxedly with an inner smile? What did the busy buzzing of the many insects sound like as you entered their habitat?
These days, species-rich, expansive flower meadows are becoming increasingly rare. Where is the nearest flower meadow in your neighborhood? Do you know? Especially in urban areas, there is often little space for butterflies, bees, and other insects. However, species-rich flower meadows are particularly important habitats for the survival of a wide variety of insects. In a successful ecosystem, they are also vital for us humans.
The more colorful the sea of flowers on the green meadow glows and its wonderful fragrance, the more comfortable bees, bumblebees, butterflies, insects, and birds feel. The particular importance of caring for and maintaining the flowering meadow biotope is demonstrated by the fact that half of the 584 wild bee species studied are now threatened, and 39 bee strains have already become extinct. This poses a significant threat to biodiversity in fields and forests.
Why are flowering meadows important to me?
An extensive abundance of diverse wild flowering plants provides the essential habitat for a vibrant biodiversity of insects and birds. Colorful flowering meadows produce a wide range of pollen, which is especially important for the offspring of bees and butterflies. Of the approximately one million scientifically studied insect species, approximately 1.4 billion insects depend on you, as does every human being.
Nevertheless, these insects are quietly and often unnoticed threatened with extinction. Approximately 20 percent of all native honeybees have now died. Yet bees play a particularly important role in our survival. With their tireless pollination and the transport of pollen from flower to flower, they ensure a complex network of plants and various fruits for the continuation of their own food chain.
Honeybees are a fundamental part of our food chain. Approximately 33 percent of domestic fruit trees are pollinated exclusively by bee pollen. Bees are highly intelligent. They live in sometimes enormous colonies and are extremely social. They possess a particularly strong sense of direction, which guides them back to their hive at any time and even allows them to recognize the face of the beekeeper.
How do I create a flower meadow?
As you walk through a colorfully blooming meadow, enjoying this almost paradisiacal world, you might suddenly and intuitively feel the need to create a small flower meadow of your own. This will provide bees, butterflies, and other insects, especially in urban areas, with true oases of survival. They feel particularly at home in a diverse selection of native wildflowers and will gladly return again and again.
If you have a large lawn or your own garden, you can simply start by aerating your lawn thoroughly, i.e., scarifying it. This allows the native wildflower seeds to take root more easily in the soil and bloom again each year. This colorful sea of blossoms will continually attract a variety of bees, bumblebees, butterflies, and other insects, and the garden will shine anew every day as a beautiful eye-catcher.
What is a flower meadow sponsorship?
It has long been known that species-rich flowering areas in your habitat are increasingly disappearing. In this context, a particularly important foundation of our intact, vital ecosystem is being lost. At the same time, sufficient pollination by our insects, bees, butterflies, and other species, is essential to ensuring our natural, holistic habitat.
That's why we'd like to invite you to help us create, maintain, and protect species-rich flowering meadows. With our sustainable shinyly.shop, we're happy to and enthusiastically support the flowering meadow sponsorship program for bees and butterflies at the Stiftung Unternehmen Wald (Foundation for Forest Companies) . And this is where you come in. Become a flowering meadow sponsor and support the diversity of our natural plant and insect world with your flowering meadow donation.
By setting a compelling example, you may also be able to motivate your family, friends, and those around you to become more sensitive to an intact ecosystem and a sustainable lifestyle, thus leading a happier and more fulfilling life overall. Why not give a piece of a beautiful, cheerful flower meadow as a gift for a birthday, christening, or any other special occasion? You can donate a piece of a colorful flower meadow here.
Conclusion
Wildflower meadows, as untouched as possible, not only make you happy simply by looking at the colorful blooms. They also provide an important habitat for a diverse insect world, which ensures a sustainable, intact food chain for our healthy human life. Unfortunately, this wonderful habitat is threatened with extinction and therefore particularly worthy of protection by you, as well as by every human being.
