2023-09-03 11:25:24
LH Mikl-Leitner: “Significant contribution to our ecosystem”
St. Polten (OTS/NLK) – “Butterflies, from the caterpillar to the moth, make a significant contribution to our ecosystem. With over 4,000 species, Austria is Europe’s butterfly hotspot, but this biodiversity is endangered. The protection of our butterflies therefore requires all of our attention. I am therefore pleased that we are showing in the new butterfly garden at GARTEN TULLN how green spaces can be best designed and cared for for these delicate creatures,” emphasizes State Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner on the new butterfly garden at GARTEN TULLN.
Butterflies are enchanting creatures with their blaze of color and tenderness and are probably among the prettiest garden visitors in our animal world. Their importance for the native species structure cannot be overestimated, many species are seriously endangered. The new cooperation between the Lower Austrian environmental movement “Nature in the Garden” and the BILLA Foundation in Blooming Austria finds another concrete and documented implementation here.
“A well thought-out, purely ecologically maintained green space for butterflies shows visitors to GARTEN TULLN how biodiversity can be supported in their own garden. With its diverse design, the butterfly garden offers food and habitat for caterpillars and moths in an optimal atmosphere. This means that DIE GARTEN TULLN has gained an important ecological aspect”, said the governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner on the occasion of the opening of the show garden.
“The new butterfly garden represents different structures for all areas of life of the butterflies. Different herbs and perennials are sources of nectar, flower meadows and wooden trunks as vantage points are very good basic conditions for their habitat,” informs DIE GARTEN TULLN Managing Director Franz Gruber.
When selecting the bushes, attention was paid to native wild bushes, which serve as a nursery for the butterflies. So there are buckthorn for the brimstone butterfly, sloe for the peacock moth or the scarlet butterfly or honeysuckle for the little kingfisher. Monk’s pepper, drooping summer lilac and beard flower were also deliberately planted alongside the wild shrubs. Their flowers are good sources of nectar for butterflies to be able to observe them well.
More information: Mag. Franz-Xaver Hebenstreit, Tel.:
0676/848790737, e-mail: french@naturimgarten.at.
Questions & contact:
Office of the Lower Austrian provincial government
State Office Directorate/Public Relations
Mag. Christian Salzmann
02742/9005-12172
presse@noel.gv.at
www.noe.gv.at/presse
1693764678
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