Five Years of Connecting for Pollinators: Planting the Future Together – Let Every Slovenian Plant at Least One Melliferous Plant.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association (ČZS) is connecting people through the “Day of planting Melliferous (Honey) Plants ” project with a shared mission – to preserve pollinators and co-create a greener, more blossoming future.
As part of the project this year, 84 municipalities took over a total of 3,999 melliferous tree saplings, which were distributed across 13 collection locations nationwide. The project takes place under the auspices of the ČZS and with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, which promotes measures for nature protection and sustainable environmental development. In many municipalities, the initiative has been further enhanced—on this occasion, parents of newborns are gifted melliferous tree saplings, which symbolically grow alongside the child while providing food and shelter for bees and other pollinators.
This year, beekeeping societies (ČD) again have the opportunity to apply for a co-financing tender for melliferous saplings, through which they can obtain up to €1,000 for planting species that provide bees and other pollinators with pollen, nectar, and honeydew. The tender is an opportunity for societies, together with the local community, to create new flowering areas, improve bee forage, and contribute to greater biodiversity. We invite beekeeping societies to take advantage of this possibility and apply—more information on the conditions is available on the tender’s website or from the advisors of the public beekeeping advisory service at the ČZS.
Every individual can make a significant contribution to the preservation of pollinators. Melliferous plants can be planted almost anywhere—in gardens, near apiaries, in orchards, in fields, or even on balconies and terraces. Numerous plants represent an important food source for bees: from early spring messengers like hazel, crocuses, and willows, to summer and autumn plants such as chestnut, sunflowers, buckwheat, clover, or phacelia. Even herbs like lavender, sage, and thyme can create a rich source of nectar and pollen on smaller surfaces. We therefore invite you to look at the selection of melliferous plants and consider where in your environment you can create a new flowering corner—every plant is a step closer to a more diverse environment for pollinators.
Day of planting Melliferous Plants reminds us every year that small actions can achieve big changes. We therefore invite you to join us on Saturday, March 21, 2026, and plant a melliferous plant according to your means—whether it be a flower, a shrub, or a honey tree. With every plant sown or planted, we co-create a blooming environment, richer biodiversity, and more stable living conditions for pollinators and future generations.
