It hums and buzzes… and is annoying! Flies are mostly unwelcome guests in the garden, let alone apartments. If you don't want to be on the lookout all the time, consider cultivating the plants listed on this page. They drive away the insects automatically without harming the animals. In addition, the plants also have additional advantages such as the visual enrichment of your garden. Read for yourself!
Flies don't like the smell of tomato plants at all
plants for the garden
Nasturtium
The nasturtium emits a scent that has a deterrent effect on flies. Among gardeners, on the other hand, their properties are very welcome:
- Suitable as a privacy screen
- Showy flowers of various colors
- Edible flowers
- Rapid growth
- Also grows in the shade
lavender
The intense purple flowers are both a feast for the eyes and a scent experience for the senses. By the way, butterflies see it the same way and visit the lavender quite often. But there are also these advantages:
- grows in the rock garden, in the tub, in the bed and in the balcony box on the windowsill
- loves the blazing sun
- makes little demands on the soil
tomatoes
Small, red, tasty and ideal for repelling flies.
- If you don't value fruit, you can also plant the tomato in the shade.
- varied fencing for the vegetable patch
- different varieties available
French or pole beans
Before you can eat the beans, you have to boil them before you can enjoy them. You will soon have to spend a lot less effort fighting annoying flies.
- Different varieties available (including for keeping buckets)
- high crop yield
marigolds
The marigold feels equally at home in the bed as it does as a cut flower in the vase. In any case, it does its job: it keeps annoying mosquitoes away. In the bed, it even attracts numerous beneficial insects.
- Marigolds possess healing properties
catnip
The catnip enriches your beds, the terrace or the balcony with numerous advantages:
- Cats love both the smell and the taste
- hardy plant
- beautiful purple flower
- small and compact - ideal for keeping buckets
plants for the home
basil
Of course, you can also grow your basil in the garden. A big advantage, however, is that the herb plant in the potty thrives on the windowsill in closed rooms without any problems. For this reason, basil is one of the most effective fly repellents for indoor use. Other useful properties are:
- little maintenance
- also suitable for culinary use
chives
Chives have similar benefits to the basil listed above. However, while basil needs the sun, chives also feel at home on north-facing windowsills, i.e. in cool places.
geraniums
Geraniums are the classic on the balcony. No wonder with the following properties:
- colorful flowers
- great variety of species
- very easy to care for
marigold
Testing is above studying? Not with flies when they smell the marigold.
- best on the balcony
- colorful bloom