In the forest edges, the blackthorn blooms with its snow-white flowers. The nectar and pollen of the blackthorn are attractive to early-flying bumblebees, bees, digger bees, flies and butterflies. These ensure pollination. There are still flowering wild daffodils, but the flowering is past its peak. Wood anemones provide a white carpet of flowers in the forest. If it doesn’t rain too hard in the coming days, they will certainly be the most striking spring bloomer in the forest for another 10 days. Especially when the sun is shining, their flowers are fully open. The white petals then concentrate the heat of the sun’s rays to the centre of the flower to attract pollinators. Here and there a flowering wild bluebell appears. But for now it is the long, narrow leaves of the bluebells that stand out. They pierce through the dry beech and oak leaves and colour the forest floor green where no wood anemones grow. Because there are no leaves on the trees yet, this is the ideal time to enjoy the birds in the forest. Be sure to bring binoculars. And as long as it is quiet in the forest, you can, with a bit of luck, meet a roe deer. Please also stay on the hiking trails for them, even where there are no ropes. Practical information about accessibility, parking, toilets and marked walks during the blooming of the hyacinths can be found here.
