Clover in the garden: Information about flowering

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• Clover in the garden: Information about flowering
• Clover as a blooming groundcover in the garden
• The heyday of red and white clover
• Tips

Clover blooms throughout the summer until autumn

Clover in the garden: Information about flowering

Clover varieties such as red (Trifolium pratense) and white clover (Trifolium repens) are cultivated primarily as forage crops in agriculture. But you can also enrich the garden with its perennial flowers and at the same time improve the soil.

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Clover as a blooming groundcover in the garden

If you keep hares or guinea pigs yourself, then you can grow the clover in the garden as a forage plant with little care. Not least of all, the positive properties of red and white clover are that they thrive well in damp and rather cool locations. In addition, the pretty, spherical flowers of the clover, for example, serve the following insects as nectar and pollen source:

The heyday of red and white clover

The red and the white clover differed on the basis of their name-giving flower color and also somewhat in their growth characteristics. However, depending on the location, both types of clover bloom approximately between May and October. The individual flowers of the clover bloom much longer than in many other plants.

Tips

Since the clover is usually very resistant to tread, it can also serve as a flowering lawn replacement.