Which Plants Will Keep Annoying Insects Away from Your Garden?

To keep insects from interfering with enjoying time outdoors, many people resort to chemical treatment of their plot. However, such treatments kill not only mosquitoes and moths but also butterflies and bees.

Experts at Derevo Park offer an alternative: plant some of these species from the list and forget about pests.

Common Yarrow

Yarrow is considered a weed plant — it often grows along roads, fields, and lawns. It looks accordingly: long, almost bare stems, sparse pinnate leaves, and modest flowering in the form of a basket of bright yellow balls.

Despite that, yarrow is rich in essential oils and has many beneficial properties. For example, its aroma repels most insects: mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and flies.

In landscape design: will look interesting in a field-style flower bed.

Common Sage

This aromatic plant has antiseptic and insecticidal properties. A perennial semi-shrub with branched stems and elongated leaves, decorated with blue-violet flowers that bees and butterflies love but mosquitoes avoid.

In landscape design: is quite self-sufficient and will look great in group plantings or as one of the tiers in a flower bed. Works well with bulbous plants — irises, lilies, tulips, and onions.

Wild Thyme

Branching bushes of wild thyme are adorned with lavender inflorescences. The aromatic leaves have a pleasant anise-like scent. Wild thyme is edible and can be an excellent decoration not only for the garden but also for the dinner table. These are great honey plants that can help you get rid of unwelcome insects.

In landscape design: low-maintenance, ideal for flower beds of various styles and can be used as a low living fence.

Lemon Balm

A low-maintenance perennial. One of the oldest aromatic plants with a delicate lemon scent, sometimes called lemon balm. In natural conditions, lemon balm resembles decorative nettle with small white-pink flowers. It has insecticidal properties.

In landscape design: we would plant lemon balm in one of the sections of a decorative garden or in a separate planter on the terrace.

Double Bergamot

A plant from the mint family with a bright citrus scent reminiscent of bergamot. The stems of bergamot are adorned with vibrant exotic flowers — one of the most beautiful plants that repel pests.

Frequently used for medicinal purposes, in cooking, and interior decoration, as well as to make aromatic potpourri.

In landscape design: will look great as a solitary plant or in compositions with astilbe, chamomile, delphinium, or echinacea. Usually, flower heads are removed after blooming, but they can be left if desired.

Marigolds

These are small plants with pinnate leaves and double flower heads in the shape of baskets. Thanks to their phytoncides, they repel not only mosquitoes and flies but also pests from neighboring plants. Help fight the leafroller, onion fly, cutworm, and cabbage white butterfly.

In landscape design: will look great in planters, decorative gardens, or as edging for garden beds.